The paper discusses manufacturing enterprises' compelling challenges that are directly
stemming from generic conflicts between competition and cooperation, local autonomy and …

The problem each manufacturer repeatedly faces is how to meet demand by making
available the required quantities of products in the specified quality and at proper time. From …

In this article the scheduling problem of dynamic hybrid flow shop with uncertain processing
time is investigated and an ant colony algorithm based rescheduling approach is proposed …

This paper addresses the serial batch scheduling problem embedded in a job shop
environment to minimize makespan. Sequence dependent family setup times and a job …

The paper analyses the problem of coordination in supply networks of multiple retailers and
a single supplier, where partners have asymmetric, private information of demand and costs …

Optimal production planning in the form of job shop scheduling problems (JSSP) is a vital
problem in many industries. In practice, however, it can happen that the volume of jobs …

The job shop scheduling literature has been dominated by a focus on regular objective
functions–in particular the makespan–in its half a century long history. The last twenty years …

In workshops of CNC machines, jobs may have alternative sequences of operations, where
each operation must be performed on one of a pre-specified subset of machines. The key to …

This paper first formulates a binary integer programming (BIP) model that minimises C max
for a multi-stage flexible job shop floor with machine compatibility. Due to a computational …

In this paper the authors consider supply planning in a production network as a distributed
effort for matching future demand and supply by relying on asymmetric and partly uncertain …