Gudrun Kiesmüller has been a Full Professor for Operations Management at the TUM School of Management, TUM Campus Heilbronn, Technical University Munich since 2019. She has studied Mathematics at the Julius Maximilians University Würzburg where she also obtained her doctoral degree. Afterward, she joined the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands as a PostDoc and later as an Assistant Professor. At the Christian Albrechts Universität zu Kiel she was appointed as a full professor for Supply Chain Management and at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg for Operations Management.
Her primary research interests are supply chain management, inventory management, and in particular the management of spare parts inventories. Recent projects also included the planning of maintenance processes and the design of manufacturing systems. In her work also optimization approaches are developed for decision support.
Together with different co-authors, she has published in leading international journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, IISE Transactions, Production and Operations Management among others.
Impact of Sensor Technology on Repair Kit Planning: We develop a decision support tool, which helps to decide which spare parts a technician should have in his kit when he is visiting customers to repair a failed installed base. In particular, we consider components equipped with sensor technology such that failure diagnosis can take place before the visit of the technician.
Design and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems: To reduce downtimes and increase the throughput of advanced technology manufacturing systems, spare parts can be kept in stock. We develop methods such that spare parts and maintenance planning can be integrated into the design of a manufacturing system.
