Contact details

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 the use of new technologies in after sales operations for high-tech equipment: 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, and from June through August 2022, he visited the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

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

• Maryam Azani (at TUe)
• Ragnar Eggertsson (at TUe)
• Bibi de Jong (at TU/e and NXP)
• Zhao Kang (at TUe)
• Niccolò Maccarini (at TUe)
• Bas van Oudenhoven (at TUe)
• İpek Tanıl (at TUe)
• Alireza Yazdani (at TUe)

The following PhD students obtained their PhD degrees:

• Douniel Lamghari-Idrissi (at TUe and ASML; PhD thesis)
• Bregje van der Staak (at TUe; PhD thesis)
• 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, Journal of 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 (and a leaflet on a key paper)

Journal publications

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

Submitted

• Yazdani, A., Marandi, A., Basten, R.J.I. and Tan, L. (2024). A Clustering-based uncertainty set for Robust Optimization. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Van Oudenhoven, B., Van de Calseyde, P.P.F.M., Basten, R.J.I. and Demerouti, E. (2024). Accuracy, Awareness, and Acceptance: How Attention Drives People’s Use of Point versus Interval Forecasting Algorithms. Submitted for publication. Not available online.
• Azani, M., Tan, L., Basten, R.J.I. and De Kok, A.G. (2024). Marrying Math and Mind: Towards Production Planning Systems for Industry 5.0. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Tan, L. and Basten, R.J.I. (2023). Wait and See, or Pay now? How People Decide to Pay a Cost to Avoid a Loss. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Van der Haar, J.F., Wellens, A.P., Boute, R.N. and Basten, R.J.i. (2023). Supervised learning for integrated forecasting and inventory control. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Eggertsson, R., Eruguz, A.S., Basten, R.J.I. and Maillart, L. (2023). Maintenance Optimization for Multi-Component Systems with a Single Sensor. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Kang, Z., Marandi, A., Basten, R.J.I., and De Kok, A.G. (2023). Robust Spare Parts Inventory Management. Working paper. Submitted for publication.
• Tüncel, Ö, Basten, R.J.I. and Becker-Peth, M. (2021). Who Should Bear the Risk? A Theoretical and Behavioral Investigation of After-Sales Service Contracts. 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.

2024

• 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. International Journal of Forecasting. Accepted for publication.

2023

• Akkermans, H.A., Basten, R.J.I., Zhu, Q. and Van Wassenhove, L. (2023). Transition Paths for Condition-Based Maintenance-Driven Smart Services. Journal of Operations Management. Accepted for publication.
• Eggertsson, R., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2023). Maintenance optimization for capital goods when information is incomplete and environment-dependent. IISE Transactions. Accepted for publication.
• Van Oudenhoven, B., Van de Calseyde, P., Basten, R. and Demerouti, E. (2023). Predictive maintenance for industry 5.0: behavioural inquiries from a work system perspective. International Journal of Production Research. 61(22): 7846-7865.

2022

• Zhang, Y., Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I. and Song, J.-S. (2022). Distributed 3D Printing of Spare Parts via IP Licensing. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(5): 2685–2702.
• Lamghari-Idrissi, D., Van Hugten, R., Van Houtum, G.J. and Basten, R.J.I. (2022). Increasing Chip Availability Through a New After-Sales Service Supply Concept at ASML. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 52(5): 460-470.
  • Finalist for the 2020 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.

2021

• Westerweel, B., Basten, R.J.I., Den Boer, J. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2021). Printing Spare Parts at Remote Locations: Fulfilling the Promise of Additive Manufacturing. Production & Operations Management 30(6): 1615-1632.
  • Two-page leaflet on the paper.
  • ISIR Best Student Paper 2018.
• Lamghari-Idrissi, D., Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2021). Reducing risks in spare parts service contracts with a long-down constraint. IISE Transactions 53(10): 1067-1080.

2020

• 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 10(23): 8348.

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

2023

• Basten, R.J.I. and Van Houtum, G.J. (2023). Spare parts inventory planning. In Jing-Sheng Jeannette Song (Ed.): Research Handbook on Inventory Management. (Chapter 19). Northampton, Massachusetts: Edward Elgar.

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, the Netherlands: 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 research school. D128.