Trends like mass-customisation and the increasing number of models produced and parts
used on a single assembly line promote interest in the field of assembly line feeding. The …

The fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation of consumer markets require
contemporary manufacturers to rethink and reshape their business models to deal with the …

Transportation planning has been established as a key topic in the literature and practices of
social production, especially in urban contexts. To consider traffic environment factors, more …

Electric vehicle scheduling is concerned with assigning a fleet of electrically powered
vehicles to a set of timetabled trips. Since the range of these vehicles is limited, charging …

We consider a routing problem where orders are transported just-in-time from several
suppliers to an original equipment manufacturer (OEM). This implies that shipments cannot …

Mixed-model assembly lines enable a flow-oriented mass production of individualized
products such as cars. The most investigated operational decision problems in this domain …

The mass customisation strategy is needed by manufacturing companies to face the
increasing variety and unpredictability of products required by customers. However, mass …

The factory logistics increases in importance as more processes and types of components
are needed to produce a product. Due to the limited industrial space and stressful …

The rich data collected from smart shop floors necessitate proactive decision-making to
relieve system nervousness in a dynamic environment. This proactivity takes real-time …

Since greening scheduling problems are drawing increasing attention from researchers and
modern manufacturing enterprises, and the energy consumption is a substantial problem …