Scheduling involving setup times/costs plays an important role in today's modern
manufacturing and service environments for the delivery of reliable products on time. The …

Due to its practical relevance, the flowshop group scheduling problem has received much
attention in the academic and practice-oriented literature. As machines are grouped to cells …

Increasing environmental, legislative, and social concerns are forcing companies to take a
fresh view of the impact of supply chain operations on environment and society when …

Sustainability has been considered as a growing concern in supply chain network design
(SCND) and in the order allocation problem (OAP). Accordingly, there still exists a gap in the …

Recently, a growing concern with sustainability has become a consideration in business
operations. However, there is a lack of mathematical models that quantify environmental …

Over the past 20 years, the topic of order acceptance has attracted considerable attention
from those who study scheduling and those who practice it. In a firm that strives to align its …

Given that group technology can reduce the changeover time of equipment, broaden the
productivity, and enhance the flexibility of manufacturing, especially cellular manufacturing …

In practice due dates usually behave more like intervals rather than specific points in time.
This paper studies hybrid flowshops where jobs, if completed inside a due window, are …

This paper studies scheduling of hybrid flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times to
minimize total weighted earliness and tardiness. Due dates are usually intervals in real life …

Flexible flowshop manufacturing cells (FFMCs) have been widely applied to achieve the
efficiency of high-volume manufacturing for products of small-to-medium demand. In FFMCs …