Multi-position refining furnaces are a critical strategy for energy-intensive industries to meet
its demands of fast-paced production. In most literature, however, they serve only as a buffer …

With the fourth-generation industrial revolution, manufacturing industries are focusing on
dynamic, fully autonomous, and more customer-oriented production systems. This customer …

Mass customization has enabled smart manufacturing systems to develop reconfigurable
machines and fixtures to fulfill customized products with high process variety. Coupled with …

This paper considers jointly scheduling the production and resource-constrained
maintenance activities in a manufacturing setting with unrelated parallel machines. In …

This paper investigates an identical parallel machine scheduling problem with flexible
maintenance and job release times and attempts to optimize two objectives: the …

In this paper, we address the unrelated parallel machine scheduling problem with calendar,
which consists of a generic intermittent availability scheme with non-regular active and …

In a multiprocessor system, scheduling is an NP-hard problem, and solving it using
conventional techniques demands the support of evolutionary algorithms such as genetic …

In recent years, the value chain facilitates the transition of competition among enterprises
from a single link to a comprehensive one, thereby driving intelligent upgrades within …

We examine a parallel machine scheduling problem with setup time in order to minimize the
makespan. Each job consists of predefined parts, and the parts of a job can be processed …

This work is motivated by disruptions that occur when jobs are processed by humans, rather
than by machines. For example, humans may become tired, bored, or distracted. This paper …