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Laboratory of Business Administration (LBA)

The Laboratory of Business Administration (LBA) was founded in 2002. It is one of the two laboratories that comprise the Industrial Management Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
The Laboratory is active mainly in the following scientific areas:

  • Production Operations Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Quality Assurance and Quality Control
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Modeling and Analysis of Manufacturing Systems
  • Reverse Logistics
  • System Dynamics
  • Reliability and Maintenance
  • Organizational Diagnosis and Design
  • Engineering Economics

The mission of LBA is:

  • To offer courses in the undergraduate program of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and in interdepartmental postgraduate programs of the School of Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
  • To conduct basic and applied research in its field of expertise and publish the results in international peer-reviewed journals.
  • To work on research projects founded by the EU and the Hellenic public and private sector.
  • To widen the co-operation and scientific exchanges with other academic and research institutions.

Director of the Laboratory is Professor George Tagaras.