Section: Other Grants and Activities

National and International Activities

National

• ADENTS

  COSTEAM and the enterprise ADENTS collaborates in the scope of the traceability management. Simòn Tamayo, PhD student, works with a "contrat CIFRE" in this context.

• LAGIS (Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal) - École Centrale de Lille

  Our team collaborate with Professor Étienne Craye, Manager of the SED (Systèmes à Événements Discrets) team of LAGIS, on the subject of controller synthesis for an application in the domain of reconfiguration.

• LAI (Laboratoire d'Automatique Industrielle) - INSA Lyon (National Institute for Applied Sciences)

  Professor Nidhal Rezg works in collaboration with Professor Eric Niel (manager of the team "Dependability and Monitoring of Industrial systems" of LAI) on the subject of control tolerating failures.

• ORCHIDS (Operations Research for Complex Hybrid Decision Systems) - LORIA - INPL

  COSTEAM and Orchids collaborates in the scope of the supply chain management.

• SLP (Systèmes Logistiques et de Production) - IRCCyN

  (Institut de Recherche en Communication et Cybernétique de Nantes)

  Nathalie Sauer works in collaboration with the SLP team of IRCCyN, especially for which concerns management and development of production systems. She has also been ending the supervision of a PhD student of this lab whose thesis is related to evaluation and optimization of event graphs.

• CRAN and ICD

  Kondo H. Adjallah works in collaboration with the CRAN team of Prof. Ragot, the ICD research team of Dr Snoussi and Birragah on data collection management on large structure based on wireless sensors network for maintenance decision support. This collaboration was in the framework of the COSMOS project (design and monitoring of reliable and multiple operation modes systems).

International

• ESSTT (École Supérieure des Sciences et Techniques) - Tunis-Tunisia

  Professor Nidhal Rezg collaborates with Prof. Anis Chelbi from ESSTT-Tunisia. This collaboration consists at undertaking research studies in order to develop new industrial integrated maintenance/production strategies with the aim of improving the traditional strategies.

• ETSMTL (École de Technologie Supérieure) - Montreal-Canada

  Professor Nidhal Rezg and Dr. Dellagi collaborate with Professor Ali Gharbi in the maintenance field.

• FUCaM (Catholic university of Mons) - Belgium

  Professor Nidhal Rezg collaborates with Dr. Fouad Riane (manager of the Center of Research and Studies in Industrial Management) in the field of healthcare management.

• IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) - Delhi-India

  India Since January 2007, Dr. Lyes Benyoucef is collaborating with Professor S. G. Deshmukh and Dr. Vipul Jain from the Department of Mechanical Engineering (IIT-Delhi) on the development of new approaches to address the issue of agility and lean in dynamic integrated supply chains.

• IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) - Kharagpur-India

  Since January 2008, Dr. Lyes Benyoucef is collaborating with Professor M.K. Tiwari from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IIT-Kharagpur) on the development of new approaches to address the management of reconfigurable manufacturing systems.

• ISB (Indian School of Business) - Hyderabad-India

  Since May 2006, Dr. Lyes Benyoucef is collaborating with Dr. Kameshwaran Sampath from the Center for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies (ISB-India) on the development of new techniques to solve some complex optimization problems present in E-Procurement environment.

• RM (Reliability and Maintenance Network) - Canada

  Partners of the RM network, the University of Laval (Canada), the Polytechnic School of Montreal (Canada), the Higher School of Science and Technology of Tunis (Tunisia) and COSTEAM, exchange their industrial and scientific experiences and results on reliability and maintenance of production systems.

• Technological Institute of Celaya - Mexico

  The staff of our team-project, and especially Professor Nathalie Sauer, collaborates with Professor Sergio Martinez (manager for research and development) on the subject of performance evaluation for the management of complex systems. The officialising of this collaboration throughout a contract granted by the Mexican government is under consideration.

• University of Quisqueya (Haïti)

  COSTEAM and University of Quisqueya collaborates in the scope of the service system control and engineering. Norly Germain, PhD student, works with a "co-tutelle" in this context.

• University of Moncton - Canada

  Professor Nidhal Rezg, collaborate with Professor Gilles Cormier. This collaboration consists on developing new industrial integrated maintenance/production strategies.

• USA NSF (I/U-CRC IMS), University of Cincinnati-USA

  Since 2000, Kondo H. Adjallah has close collaboration with the USA NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems Center (I/U-CRC IMS), University of Cincinnati, Ohio. He invited Prof. Jay Lee, head of the IMS Center, on June 17-18, 2009, to deliver two days seminars on "Intelligent maintenance systems development" and on "dominant innovation strategy", to the laboratory members.

• Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland

  Since 2000, Kondo H. Adjallah collaborates also with Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis, head of the LICP research lab, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). Dr. Kiritsis was invited on June 23, to deliver a seminar on "Emerging Technologies for Asset Lifecycle Management" to the laboratory members. This collaboration accounts for investigations on data collection process modeling and decision support to predictive maintenance.