RESEARCH LABORATORIES

:: BUFAIM - Flexible Automation and Integrated Manufacturing Systems Laboratory

The aim of BUFAIM Laboratory is to realize a flexible manufacturing environment where research on modern manufacturing planning and control techniques, flexible automation concepts and their integration issues can be conducted. The model factory in BUFAIM provides a reconfigurable infra-structure for implementing the on-going research and presenting it to academia and industry. The model factory comprises of three robotic cells representing several automation concepts including machine-vision, an Automated Storage and Retrieval System, a free-ranging Automated Guided Vehicle and a closed-loop conveyor. All the software used to run the system is developed by BUFAIM student researcher teams in a modular, reusable and expandable fashion with an understanding of continuous improvement. While BUFAIM is mainly a graduate research laboratory, educating interested undergraduate students is another goal pursued by means of a number of elective courses and graduation projects.

:: MMS - Manufacturing Management Systems Laboratory

MMS aims to make the state-of-the-art ERP software available to BU-IE students. MMS also carries out and supports research in Production Management Systems and Supply Chain Management Systems. With increasing merge of Supply Chain Management and e-Business practices, MMS Lab. carries out research on e-Business, particularly on intelligent agents and electronic marketplaces.

:: SESDYN - Socio-Economic System Dynamics Research Group Laboratory

The main goal of SESDYN studies is to model, analyze and improve strategic socio-economic management problems, from a "Dynamic Systems" perspective. Socio-economic problems that are either specific to Turkey or of universal nature are modelled and analyzed using systems thinking and dynamic computer simulation.

:: QFRG - Quantitative Finance Research Group

The Quantitative Finance Research Group's vision is to be an internationally recognised research group in the field of quantitative finance.

:: ErgoLab - Ergonomics Laboratory

The mission of the Ergonomics Laboratory at Boðaziçi University is to conduct scholarly research in ergonomics, the study of work and the efficiency and safety of human-machine systems, while training students to become the research scientists and ergonomics/safety practitioners of tomorrow.