This book concentrates on real-world production scheduling in factories and industrial settings. It includes industry case studies that use innovative techniques as well as academic research results that can be used to improve production scheduling. Its purpose is to present scheduling...

Disassembly takes place in remanufacturing, recycling, and disposal, with a line being the best choice for automation. The disassembly line balancing problem seeks a sequence that is feasible, minimizes the number of workstations, and ensures similar idle times, as well as other end-of-life...

A survey of multi-objective scheduling techniques on the job shop problem is offered in this chapter. The survey traces the development of techniques from Integer programming to genetic algorithms that take advantage of the power of recent computing technology. Applications are in areas as...