The Bay Zoltán Institute of Logistics and Production Engineering was founded by Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research in 1993. The Institute is located in Miskolc, Hungary. The Bay Zoltan Institute of Logistics and Production Systems is a new institution established within the framework of the reorganization of the Hungarian scientific research structure after the political changes in Hungary. The Institute is a member of the chain of new institutes in the Bay Zoltán Foundation for Applied Research. With help of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany) the Foundation has been made by the Hungarian government for including the new generation of the Hungarian engineers into the modern research made on the international level.

Young engineers and scientists under the leading of experienced researchers, mainly from the university staff, are doing the research in this Institute, which is located on the campus of the University of Miskolc. The Institute participates in the University education, and his new modern laboratories give excellent possibilities for the students to do research as well as make their diploma theses. In the research the main task is to help the small and middle sized industry with solving high level technological and logistical problems.