Industry 4.0 arrives with a multitude of technological advances which impact the different
components of a product's value chain. Most existing research investigate the application of …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution means the digital transformation of production systems.
Cyber‐physical systems allow for the horizontal and vertical integration of these production …

Based on a triple bottom line concept, sustainable development is characterized by the
simultaneous pursuit of economic, environmental and social goals. The implementation of …

Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has attracted research interests as it can
significantly improve the energy, cost, and time efficiency of production. As one type of …

The introduction of modern technologies in manufacturing is contributing to the emergence
of smart (and data-driven) manufacturing systems, known as Industry 4.0. The benefits of …

Rapid advances in sensing and communication technologies connect isolated
manufacturing units, which generates large amounts of data. The new trend of mass …

Production scheduling and maintenance planning are two of the most important tasks in the
modern manufacturing workshop. Meanwhile, due to the dynamic order arrival and real-time …

Production scheduling is the central link between enterprise production and operation
management and is also the key to realising efficient, high-quality and sustainable …

In recent years, the flexible job shop dynamic scheduling problem (FJDSP) has received
considerable attention; however, FJDSP with transportation resource constraint is seldom …

Modeling and optimizing dynamic job shop scheduling problems (DJSSP) without ample
assumptions is inherently challenging due to the increasing complexity and uncertainty …