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Dr. ir. Rob (R.J.I.) Basten
E-mail: rob[at]robbasten[dot]eu

Eindhoven University of Technology
Atlas 4.326
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands

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My Resume and Research Statement.

Curriculum Vitae

Rob Basten (1981) is an associate professor in the group Operations, Planning, Accounting & Control at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUe). He has been there since October 2014, first as an assistant professor.

His research focusses on after sales services for capital goods: maintenance optimisation, spare parts inventory control, and design of after sales service supply chains. He is especially interested in incorporating new technologies in the design and control of after sales services: For example, how should supply chains be designed when (some) spare parts can be 3D printed or how should human users interact with decision support systems that are based heavily on techniques from artificial intelligence? His research is both analytical and empirical, with the latter work being mostly in the area of behavioral operations management.

He received his Master's degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management in December 2004 and in Computer Science in August 2005, both from the University of Twente (UT). On January 8, 2010, Rob defended his PhD thesis and received his PhD degree in Operations Management from the same university (promotor: prof. dr. Henk (W.H.M.) Zijm). As a PhD student, he also visited the Operations Research and Industrial Engineering (ORIE) graduate program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information on his PhD work, go here.

After graduating, Rob became a postdoc at the Eindhoven University of Technology. In November 2010, he also became a part-time consultant at Gordian Logistic Experts, before going back full-time to his alma mater in September 2011 to work as assistant professor in the chair of Maintenance Engineering in the faculty of Engineering Technology of the University of Twente, where he stayed until September 2014. From October 2014 through February 2015, Rob visited the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Rob has supervised graduation projects of many Bachelor and Master students (lists can be found below). He is currently supervising the following PhD students:

• Zhao Kang (at TUe)
• Maryam Azani (at TUe)
• Bas van Oudenhoven (at TUe)
• Ragnar Eggertsson (at TUe)

The following PhD students obtained their PhD degrees:

• Douniel Lamghari-Idrissi (at TUe)
• Bregje van der Staak (at TUe)
• Bram Westerweel (at TUe; PhD thesis)
• Wienik Mulder (at UT)
• Adriaan Goossens (at UT)
• Jorge Parada Puig (at UT)

He further supervised two PDEng candidates:

• Alard Snippe (at TUe)
• Felipe Ramos Gaete (at TUe)

He is project leader and work package leader in the ProSeLoNext project (see the announcement) and work package leader in the PrimaVera project. He was work package leader in the SINTAS project and project leader of the OCPROM project. All these projects have been funded by NWO with cofunding from industry. He was further the initiator and organizer of the Maintenance Research Day.

Rob has published journal papers in, and he has acted as a reviewer for, journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Naval Research Logistics, and the European Journal of Operational Research. For a full list of publications, see below.

Booklets with project results

ProSeLoNext: booklet
SINTAS: booklet

Journal publications

(Clicking on the bold part of the reference brings you to the corresponding paper.)

Submitted

• Akkermans, H.A., Basten, R.J.I., Zhu, Q. and Van Wassenhove, L. (2020). Transition Paths for Condition-Based Maintenance-Driven Smart Services. Working paper. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Van der Staak, B., Basten, R.J.I., Van de Calseyde, P.P.F.M., Demerouti, E. and De Kok, A.G. (2020). Some-touch forecasting: A novel method to combine human judgment with statistical algorithms. Working paper. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Van der Staak, B., Basten, R.J.I., Van de Calseyde, P.P.F.M., Demerouti, E. and De Kok, A.G. (2020). Why do planners deviate from the advice of planning systems? A list of empirically validated reasons. Working paper. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Van der Staak, B., Van de Calseyde, P.P.F.M., Basten, R.J.I., Demerouti, E. and De Kok, A.G. (2020). Round Number Preference in Demand Forecasting: Planners' Preference for Round Numbers and the Related Forecasting Error. Working paper. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Van der Staak, B., Van de Calseyde, P.P.F.M., Demerouti, E., Basten, R.J.I. and De Kok, A.G. (2020). Crafting planning decisions: The ect of daily crafting on planning adjustments. Working paper. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Zhang, Y., Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I. and Song, J.-S. (2020). Distributed 3D Printing of Spare Parts via IP Licensing. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2019). Preventive maintenance with a 3D printing option. Working paper. Submitted for publication.

2020

• Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I., Den Boer, J. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2020). Printing Spare Parts at Remote Locations: Fulfilling the Promise of Additive Manufacturing. Production & Operations Management.
  • ISIR Best Student Paper 2018.
• Lamghari-Idrissi, D., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2020). Reducing risks in spare parts service contracts with a long-down constraint. Accepted for publication at IISE Transactions.
• Lamghari-Idrissi, D., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2020). Spare parts inventory control under a fixed-term contract with a long-down constraint. International Journal of Production Economics 219: 123–137.
• Lamghari-Idrissi, D., Basten, R.J.I., Dellaert, N.P. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2020). Which Spare Parts Service Measure to Choose for a Front-end Wafer Fab?. IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing 30(4): 504-510.
• Castro, I.T., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2020). Opportunistic maintenance for heterogeneous complex systems under continuous monitoring. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 200.
• Karabag, O., Eruguz, A.S. and Basten, R.J.I. (2020). Integrated Optimization of Maintenance Interventions and Spare Part Selection for a Partially Observable Multi-Component System. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 200.
• Ton, B., Basten, R.J.I., Bolte, J., Braaksma, A.J.J., Di Bucchianico, A., Van de Calseyde, P., Grooteman, F., Heskes, T., Jansen, N., Teeuw, W., Tinga, T. and Stoelinga, M. (2020). PrimaVera: Synergising Predictive Maintenance. Applied Sciences.

2019

• Basten, R.J.I. and Ryan, J.K. (2019). Inventory Management with Two Demand Streams: A Maintenance Application. European Journal of Operational Research 278(2): 646-657.

2018

• Dao, C.D., Basten, R.J.I. and Hartmann, A. (2018). Maintenance scheduling for railway tracks under limited possession time Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A: Systems 144(8).
• Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2018). Traditional or Additive Manufacturing? Assessing component design options through lifecycle cost analysis. European Journal of Operational Research 270(2): 570-585.
• Arts, J.J. and Basten, R.J.I. (2018). Design of multi-component periodic maintenance programs with single-component models. IISE Transactions 50(7): 606-615.
• Peeters, J.F.W., Basten, R.J.I. and Tinga. T. (2018). Improving failure analysis efficiency by combining FTA and FMEA in a recursive manner. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 172: 36-44.

2017

• Poppe, J., Basten, R.J.I., Boute, R.N. and Lambrecht, M.R. (2017). Numerical study of inventory management under various maintenance policies. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 168: 262-273.
• Lin, X., Basten, R.J.I., Kranenburg, A.A., and Van Houtum, G.J. (2017). Condition based spare parts supply. Reliability Engineering & System Safety 168: 240-248.
• Basten, R.J.I. and Arts, J.J. (2017). Fleet readiness: stocking spare parts and high-tech assets. IISE Transactions. 49 (4): 429-441.

2016

• Arts, J.J., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2016). Repairable Stocking and Expediting in a Fluctuating Demand Environment: Optimal Policy and Heuristics. Operations Research. 64 (6): 1285-1301.

2015

• Parada Puig, J.E. and Basten, R.J.I. (2015). Defining line replaceable units. European Journal of Operational Research. 247 (1): 310-320.
• Goossens, A.J.M. and Basten, R.J.I. (2015). Exploring maintenance policy selection using the Analytic Hierarchy Process; an application for naval ships. Reliability Engineering & System Safety. 142: 31-41.
• Basten, R.J.I., Van der Heijden, M.C., Schutten, J.M.J., and Kutanoglu, E. (2015). An approximate approach for the joint problem of level of repair analysis and spare parts stocking. Annals of Operations Research. 224 (1): 121-145.

2014

• Wingerden, E. van, Basten, R.J.I., Dekker, R., and Rustenburg, W.D. (2014). More grip on inventory control through improved forecasting. A comparative study at three companies. International Journal of Production Economics. 157: 220-237.
• Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2014) System-oriented inventory models for spare parts. Surveys in Operations Research and Management Science. 19 (1): 34-55.
• Karsten, F. and Basten, R.J.I. (2014). Pooling of spare parts between multiple users: How to share the benefits?. European Journal of Operational Research. 233 (1): 94-104.

2013

• Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2013) Near-optimal heuristics to set base stock levels in a two-echelon distribution network. International Journal of Production Economics. 143 (2): 546-552.

2012

• Basten, R.J.I., Van der Heijden, M.C., and Schutten, J.M.J. (2012). Joint optimization of level of repair analysis and spare parts stocks. European Journal of Operational Research. 222 (3): 474-483.

2011

• Basten, R.J.I., Van der Heijden, M.C., and Schutten, J.M.J. (2011). Practical extensions to a minimum cost flow model for level of repair analysis. European Journal of Operational Research. 211 (2): 333-342.
• Basten, R.J.I., Van der Heijden, M.C., and Schutten, J.M.J. (2011) A minimum cost flow model for level of repair analysis. International Journal of Production Economics. 133 (1): 233-242.

2009

• Basten, R.J.I., Schutten, J.M.J., and Van der Heijden, M.C. (2009). An efficient model formulation for level of repair analysis. Annals of Operations Research. 172 (1): 119–142.

Book chapters

2019

• Arts, J.J., Basten, R.J.I., and van Houtum, G.J. (2019). Maintenance service logistics. In Zijm, H., Klumpp, M., Regattieri, A. & Heragu, S. (Eds.): Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management. Amsterdam: Springer, 493-517.

PhD thesis

• Basten, R.J.I. (2010). Designing logistics support systems. Level of repair analysis and spare parts inventories. Ph.D. thesis. BETA researsch school. D128.

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