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Fredrik Persson

Senior Associate Professor, Head of Division

My subject area is Production Economics where I specialize in modelling and simulation. I teach advanced courses and research different topics in Operations Management.

Production Economic Research with Focus on Finance and Operations Management

The interest in digitalization is increasing all around us. While digitalization allows for new opportunities for communication between individuals, the same is true between and within manufacturing enterprises. What kinds of manufacturing systems will we see in the future and how are they going to analyzed, planned and controlled?

Production Economics is a subject area where the engineer's tools are used of on economic problems. The topic concerns the management of production factors and is aimed at the manufacturing company's financing, planning and control. The goal is to increase the manufacturing company's financial and production-related competitiveness.

My colleagues and I help to increase the knowledge in the field of Production Economics. We offer several courses in Operations Management at the graduate and undergraduate level to spread basic knowledge and the latest research in the subject. Focusing on digitalization in manufacturing companies and on initiatives such as Industry 4.0, the manufacturing systems will definitely be different in the future. It is really exciting to be involved in designing these systems.

More about my research

Finding solutions to modelling problems

An area that interests me is discrete event simulation (DES). I have studied several applications from large logistics system, where I worked with the SCOR-model as the basis for simulation, to smaller systems within health care, correctional care, manufacturing, and warehouse operations.

The research is mainly about finding new solutions on modelling issues and new ways to analyze the output data, find causal relationships and to carry out screening and experimental design.

Lean System

In my research in production planning and control, I examine all the different planning systems. Lean production is perhaps the system that has increased in interest the most in recent years.

Many companies don not use Lean to their full potential and therefore run the risk of undermining their own activities and personnel. In the field of Human Lean we study the personnel and how the system works on an individual level.
Production Economics research focuses on various allocation problems, for example on the optimal use of productive resources within manufacturing and service industries or optimal financial decisions.

Operations Management and Finance

Research group in Production Economics explores the boundary between engineering and management by developing theories and applications to optimise the use of resources within manufacturing and service industries.

Publications

2023

Veronica Lindström, Fredrik Persson, Arun Pravin Chennai Viswanathan, Mahendran Rajendran (2023) Data quality issues in production planning and control - Linkages to smart PPC Computers in industry (Print), Vol. 147, Article 103871 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2023.103871

2017

Fredrik Persson, Minna Axelsson, Fredrik Edlund, Christoffer Lanshed, Agnes Lindström, Frida Persson (2017) USING SIMULATION TO DETERMINE THE SAFETY STOCK LEVEL FOR INTERMITTENT DEMAND 2017 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), p. 3768-3779 (Conference paper) https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2017.8248089

2015

Krisjanis Steins, Fredrik Persson (2015) Identifying Factors for Successful Implementation of Simulation Modeling in Healthcare International Journal of Privacy and Health Information Management (IJPHIM), Vol. 3, p. 1-19 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.4018/IJPHIM.2015010101

2014

Micael Thunberg, Fredrik Persson (2014) Using the SCOR model's performance measurements to improve construction logistics Production planning & control (Print), Vol. 25, p. 1056-1078 (Article in journal) https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2013.808836

2013

Martin Heljedal, Fredrik Persson (2013) Sustainable intermodal transportation of prefabricated construction materials Proceedings 29th Annual ARCOM Conference, 2-4 September 2013, Reading, UK, Association of Researchers in Construction Management, p. 1383-1393 (Conference paper)

Research

Production Economics research focuses on various allocation problems, for example on the optimal use of productive resources within manufacturing and service industries or optimal financial decisions.

Operations Management and Finance

Research group in Production Economics explores the boundary between engineering and management by developing theories and applications to optimise the use of resources within manufacturing and service industries.

Organisation

Gear.

Production Economics (PEK)

The division of Production Economics carries out education and research connected to the optimal use of productive resources within manufacturing or optimal financial decisions.
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