The food industry has been widely regarded as an effective sector due to its contribution to
the national economy, job creation, and people's welfare. Malaysia as one effective country …

Intelligent solutions, based on expert systems, to solve problems in the field of production
planning and scheduling are becoming more and more widespread nowadays. Especially …

Within this paper the approach of a self-organised and highly flexible labour utilisation will
be presented. It displays the on-going German research project 'KapaflexCy”, which …

In this paper, an efficient algorithm is presented to solve flexible flow-shop problems using
fuzzy approach. The goal is to minimize the total job tardiness. We assume parallel …

Manufacturing scheduling aims to optimize one or more performance measures by
allocating a set of resources to a set of jobs or tasks over a given period of time. It is an area …

In order to improve the solar cell conversion efficiency, a thin film of doped tin oxide (SnO2:
F) has been deposited by the spray-pyrolysis technique on a monocrystalline diffused silicon …

Production scheduling is one of the major issues in production planning and control of
individual production units which lies on the heart of the performance of manufacturing …

A variety of approaches have been developed by researchers to solve different instances of
timetabling problems. In these studies different data formats are used to represent a …

Production scheduling is an optimizing problem that can contribute strongly to the
competitive capacity of companies producing goods and services. A way to promote the …

In this paper, we are concerned with the production planning and scheduling of process
industries. A real life application stems from the chemical industry where the production …