Multi-factory production planning and scheduling problems have been increasingly studied
by scholars recently due to market uncertainty, technological trends like Industry 4.0 and …

Advances in cloud computing reshape the manufacturing industry into dynamically scalable,
on-demand service oriented, and highly distributed cost-efficient business model. However it …

Because of current globalization trend, production has shifted from the single factory
production to multi-factory production network. To become competitive in today's rapidly …

Today, globalized markets require more resilient and agile manufacturing systems, as well
as customized and virtualized features. Classical self-standing manufacturing systems are …

Abstract The Industry 4.0 paradigm, thanks to the deployment of cutting-edge technologies
enabling the deployment of new services, contributes to improve the agility of productive …

This paper investigates the maintenance problem for a flow line system consisting of two
series machines with an intermediate finite buffer in between. Both machines independently …

Offshore wind farms are a growing source of energy, which aims to ensure a clean energy
with a low environmental impact. In this context, this paper investigates opportunities of the …

The priority rules are extensively used as a useful decision making technique for managers
in single and multiple projects with limited resources, mainly because of their speed and …

In this paper, a novel evolutionary algorithm is applied to tackle job-shop scheduling tasks in
manufacturing environments. Specifically, a modified micro genetic algorithm (MmGA) is …

Shared manufacturing is the application innovation of the digital economy in the field of
manufacturing and brings new opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of China …