International Logistics and Productivity Improvement Laboratory

For over 15 years, the International Logistics and Productivity Improvement Laboratory (previously known as Electronics Assembly Laboratory) at Arizona State University performs dynamic research in two main areas.

First, it focuses on logistics and productivity. This area is build over industry-sponsored projects that deal with logistics and operations topics that range from design of e.g. logistics platforms, agricultural planning tools, strategies to overcome high labor turnover and aircraft boarding strategies; to specific assessments of e.g. multimodal corridor capacity and pricing of capacity options contracts.

The second area deals with reconfigurable automated inspection systems. The actual algorithms and methodologies are based on visual inspection of surface mounted (SMD) components, but the potential use of the results is wide and can apply to fields as diverse as border inspection (one of the most recent projects).