Bachelor and Master Theses

Quarry operations are increasingly required to deliver improved economic and environmental performance while operating under complex, variable conditions. At the same time, industrial firms are shifting toward outcome-based servitization, where value is delivered and contracted in terms of achieved results rather than provided assets or tools. Despite growing interest in digital twins and simulation in extractive industries, there is a lack of structured frameworks explaining how simulation capabilities enable outcome-based services, particularly in sustainability-driven contexts such as material flow efficiency, energy intensity, and emissions reduction.

The aim of this thesis is to develop and analyze a conceptual framework that explains how simulation-based digital twins can enable outcome-based servitization for sustainable material flow in quarry operations.

• RQ: How should simulation capabilities and platform components be structured to enable outcome-based services in quarry operations, such as cost-per-ton reduction and CO₂-per-ton compliance?
• RQ2: How does simulation support outcome definition, verification, and scalable deployment of outcome-based services compared to traditional reporting and business intelligence approaches?

Background in Industrial Engineering and Management, Product Development, Product and Process Development, Innovation Management, or Business Management. The student should be familiar with performance measurement and KPIs, digital services and industrial digitalization, and servitization or service-oriented business models. Basic understanding of production and logistics systems, system integration, and decision-support concepts is considered an advantage.

Volvo CE. The thesis will be conducted as part of the TESTED-SOS project (Tested Site Optimization Solutions (Tested-SOS)).

Comnapy mentor: Raj Jiten Machchhar