Innovation
Interaction – research, teaching, business
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ooperation between the scientific research and business communities is a process very important for a country’s economic development. This problem concerns every country. In the case of such organizations as the European Union, attempts are being made to solved the problem in a broader context. The problem is significant. The goal of this article is to present the cyclical interaction - resulting from the logic of the academic year - between the university and business, with positive effects for both. The effect for the university is that it can use the results in teaching and research while the business benefits by having its processes streamlined. The article describes experiences and results achieved at the Faculty of Engineering Management Poznań University of Technology (www.fem.put.poznan.pl). This interaction is based on technology. A technology - acquired from the producer and used in teaching and research - is offered and applied in business through students’ projects (contact between business and science in the teaching process – the university’s proposal for industry). Thanks to feedback from these projects, the technology is further developed by research workers and again used in teaching, research and business. The technology acquired from the producer is the FlexSim software for the simulation of logistical and production processes (producer – FlexSim Software Products, Inc. from the United States – www.flexsim.com) and the OptQuest technology for the parametric optimization of processes based on simulation experiments
18 polish market
Presentation in the main lecture hall
Process simulation and optimization technologies as part of PPL and PSPL subjects at the Logistics Unit of the Faculty of Engineering Management Poznań University of Technology