Many problems in manufacturing systems can be formulated via Markov stochastic
modeling. This paper gives a review and classification of timed models of manufacturing …

In the literature of operations management, the reliability of multistage manufacturing
systems has been always modeled with uncorrelated failure processes where the reliability …

At present, integrated production and distribution scheduling problems have obtained
amounts of concern due to their essential roles in enhancing the supply chain performance …

Medical devices and products are a special type of manufactured object. Medical
applications normally have higher requirements for quality, complexity, personalization …

Currently, manufacturing enterprises attach great importance to improving processing
quality and customer satisfaction. Hybrid flow shops have widespread applications in real …

Inventory management is important in every business since products lose quality during
production and storage, including the food industry, semiconductor manufacturing industry …

In-line product inspection and identification are emerging technologies supporting the
observability and traceability of the product state evolution in multi-stage manufacturing …

We consider an n-site tandem stochastic production network where each product moves
sequentially through the sites, and the product's quality deteriorates with its sojourn time in …

This paper presents an integrated model for the simultaneous production and repair activity
planning of a manufacturing system whose performance output is subject to progressive …

The ability to meet target production lead times is of fundamental importance in modern
manufacturing systems producing perishable products, where the product quality or value …