At the end of the 20th century, manufacturing companies entered a new era, which, on the
one hand, offered tremendous technical and IT solutions, but, on the other, brought them into …

In increasingly unstable political, economic, environmental, and societal environments and
under the pressure of globalization, growing competition, increasingly complex …

Enterprises now face a global, dynamic, and unpredictable economic environment. In
response to quick changes of the demand, the production needs to have the ability to adapt …

In this paper, we investigate the use of the scalability property of RMS to reduce the energy
cost during the production. The corresponding optimization problem is a new Bilevel …

Industry 5.0 integrates advanced technologies like Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and
Augmented/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) with human expertise, requiring ultra-reliable …

In the recent years, reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) emerged as a new class of
manufacturing systems aiming to adapt the production capacity in a quick, efficient and cost …

Energy consumption has become a major concern for society, and since the industrial sector
is the largest consumer, companies are urged to improve energy efficiency of their …

In mining sectors, selection of equipments is important for ensuring hassle free production
[80]. Important operations in mining involve drilling, loading and hauling. Core drill rigs are …

L'industrie est à la recherche d'un nouveau type de moyens de production, flexibles et
reconfigurables, permettant un investissement incrémental suivant la demande du marché …