This paper provides a comprehensive review of discrete event simulation publications
published between 2002 and 2013 with a particular focus on applications in manufacturing …

Over the last fifty-plus years, the increased complexity and speed of integrated circuits have
radically changed our world. Today, semiconductor manufacturing is perhaps the most …

The goal of operations management is to provide design methods for production systems
that are inexpensive to construct and efficient to operate. When addressing the shop design …

The fast-paced developments and technological breakthroughs in the semiconductor
manufacturing industry elevates the importance of optimum utilization of resources. The …

Production scheduling in semiconductor wafer fabs is a non-trivial task owing to the
complexity of wafer fabrication. Dispatching rules are the most commonly used tools for shop …

Smart manufacturing utilizes digital twins that are virtual forms of their production plants for
analyzing and optimizing decisions. Digital twins have been mainly developed as discrete …

Production scheduling in semiconductor wafer fabs is a nontrivial task owing to the
complexity of wafer fabrication. Dispatching rules are the most commonly used tools for shop …

The combination of the digital twin and the smart factory has been a popular research
direction in recent years. Automated Material Handling System (AMHS) is an important …

This paper studies simultaneous scheduling of production and material transfer that arises in
the semiconductor photolithography area. In particular, the right reticle and right job both …

Smart manufacturing utilizes digital twins (DTs) that are virtual forms of their production
plants for optimizing decisions. Discrete-event models (DEMs) are frequently used to model …