Nowadays, with the advancement of technological innovations and wide implementation of
modern mining equipment, research topics on mining equipment management are attracting …

Along with the development of new-generation information technology, digital twins (DTs)
have become the most promising enabling technology for smart manufacturing. This article …

The automated conveyor system, as the core component in the modern manufacturing
world, has gained lots of attention from researchers. To optimize the operation of the …

The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is a difficult discrete combinatorial
optimization problem, which has been widely studied due to its theoretical and practical …

In this paper, a new scheduling problem is investigated in order to optimise a more
generalised J ob S hop S cheduling system with a C ombination of four B uffering constraints …

Robotic cell scheduling has received considerable attention from researchers. Several
existing review papers have presented then-existing studies on robotic cell scheduling and …

Automatic electroplating production lines have been widely used in electronics industries to
reduce the labour intensity and improve the production efficiency. In the multi-variety and …

This paper studies the cyclic jobshop hoist scheduling with multi-capacity reentrant tanks
and time-window constraints. Parts of different types are processed in a series of tanks with …

This paper presents a bi-objective solution approach to address the production scheduling
challenge encountered by manufacturers in a shared manufacturing environment. In such …

Recently, in semiconductor manufacturing, cluster tools have to process multiple wafer types
concurrently due to product customization. Different wafer types may have different …