Recently, many manufacturing enterprises pay closer attention to energy efficiency due to
increasing energy cost and environmental awareness. Energy-efficient scheduling of …

The substantial amount of energy consumed through industrial production has given rise to
a large number of research papers that incorporate environmental aspects and increased …

Benders decomposition uses a strategy of``learning from one's mistakes.''The aim of this
paper is to extend this strategy to a much larger class of problems. The key is to generalize …

Energy costs play an important role in industrial production and are closely related to
environmental concerns. As sustainability aspects are coming into focus in recent years …

This study investigates the minimization of total electricity cost in a two-machine permutation
flow shop scheduling problem under the most common electricity tariff, Time-of-Use (ToU) …

Improving environmental sustainability and reducing energy cost are becoming central
topics of decision-making in manufacturing. Increasingly manufactures are looking for new …

The industrial sector consumes half of the world delivered energy and is responsible for a
third of carbon dioxide emissions which cause severe environmental pollution. The industry …

Service-oriented manufacturing (SOM) is a new industrial model that combines
manufacturing with service. To enhance the competitiveness of manufacturers in SOM …

Scarcity of resources, structural change during the further development of renewable energy
sources, and their corresponding costs, such as increasing resource costs or penalties due …

With the increasing influence of climate change, green development has become an
important trend. Since manufacturing represents approximately one-half of total energy …