OPTIMA conducts world-class research and provides training for research students working in industrial optimisation. OPTIMA addresses 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. Despite strong expertise in academia, industry is yet to fully benefit from optimisation technology due to its high barrier to entry. 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 transformation of the advanced manufacturing, energy resources, and critical infrastructure sectors.  OPTIMA has 18 chief investigators spanning across two universities, the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and three international partner universities. We also have 11 industry partners which we expect to increase to 40 during the five-year project.