Liebe Studierende, am Freitag, den 14.06., ist Herr Professor Dieter Armbruster, Arizona State University, zu Gast in Mannheim. Er wird um 10:30 Uhr einen Vortrag in Raum A5, B 143 halten zum Thema: "The production planning problem: Clearing functions, variable leads times, delay equations and partial differential equations". Abstract: Determining the production rate of a factory as a function of current and previous states is at the heart of the production planning problem. Different engineering approaches to this problem are reviewed and their relationship is discussed. The concept of a clearing function is introduced and identified as the moment closure for a first principle approach based on kinetic transport theory. Necessary conditions for the success of the clearing function approach, as a practical tool based on a quasi-steady state approximation, are presented and more sophisticated approaches allowing the prediction of outflow in transient situations are discussed. Open loop control solutions to the deterministic production problem are introduced and promising new research directions are outlined. Interessierte Zuhörer aller Fachrichtungen sind herzlich willkommen! Viele Grüße, Noemi Huber