OPTIMA’s mission is to deliver industrial transformation via increased uptake of trusted and sophisticated optimisation technologies to address industry’s urgent need for decision-making tools for global competitiveness: reducing lead times and financial and environmental costs while improving efficiency, quality, and agility.
Industry is yet to fully benefit from optimisation technology due to high barriers to entry. The interdisciplinary expertise within the OPTIMA team will progress powerful new optimisation methods and demonstrate their value in application domains in industrial contexts. OPTIMA’s research and training programs will prioritise industry needs, underpinned by global best practice and cutting-edge research innovations to create industrial transformation in technological and workforce capability.