Dr. Diane Riopel is a professor of Logistics in the Department of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, Canada. She holds a PhD in industrial engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, and is also a member of the “Chaire Marianne-Mareschal” that promotes engineering study for women. She has special interests in the area of facility layout, material handling, warehousing and logistics.

Her articles have appeared in the international Journal of Production Economics, the International Journal of Engineering design and Automation, INFOR and other journals.

It’s not only cats that have nine lives
 

Abstract for the plenary session by Diane Riopel

Professor of Logistics, Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal

The reverse logistics consists of the organization of all any stages of a returned product at different times of its life and how a product can restart again a new life. The reverse logistics may be considered by someone a burden but by others it is a way to gain added value. I will be presenting different research works actually done in industrial engineering and some requests from industrial engineers asked to other specialities. I will talk about a list of contributions that we can work on and some tasks to innovate. How can we calling out as responsible actors of our society?

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