OPTIMA ARC

OPTIMA addresses industry's urgent need for decision-making tools to support global competitiveness: reducing lead times and financial and environmental costs while improving efficiency, quality, and agility. Despite strong expertise in academia, industry is yet to fully benefit from optimisation technology due to its high barrier to entry.

OPTIMA works with industry to conduct world-class research and provides training for research students working in industrial optimisation. Connecting industry partners with world-leading interdisciplinary researchers and talented students, OPTIMA will advance an industry-ready optimisation toolkit while training a new generation of industry practitioners and over 120 young researchers, vanguarding a highly skilled workforce of change agents for the transformation of priority sectors including advanced manufacturing, energy resources, and critical infrastructure.