BIBA scientists were awarded the Commended Paper Award at the IFAC International Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management, and Control (IFAC MIM 2022). Tobias Sprodowski, Marit Hoff-Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, and Michael Freitag prevailed against the competition with their paper "Balance efficient shuttle routing and fast order execution on a vehicle compound". The winning paper deals with an optimization problem at a vehicle compound: In this problem, an efficient assignment of driving orders of vehicles to be loaded by driving personnel with optional shuttle usage is computed, and a minimum-time routing is determined downstream for each shuttle. In this context, additional model parameters were used to systematically adjust the shuttle routing to achieve the highest possible number of processed driving orders.

The tenth IFAC MIM 2022 were held in Nantes (France) from June 22th to 24th, 2022. With 757 participants, 545 presentations, and 15 parallel sessions, it was the largest IFAC MIM conference to date. BIBA participated in the conference with three papers on simulation-based optimization, machine learning, and vehicle routing and organized together with two Brazilian institutes the track “Intelligent Methods and Tools supporting Decision Making in Manufacturing Systems and Supply Chains”.