The introduction of Cyber-Physical Systems, the implementation of machine learning, and the proposal of other technologies are some of the main features of Industry 4.0, which aims to change the way of production by introducing more flexibility and more autonomous decision-making by machines....

Companies must establish a profitable system to ensure their survival. Due to increased competition, businesses must now make sacrifices on the sales price of the product or service produced in order to remain competitive. Station opening costs play a significant role in assembly line...

With the continuous upgrading of industrial technology and information technology, consumers can deeply participate in the whole life cycle of products and realize customized production. These unprecedented changes have brought consumers and manufacturers closer together, resulting in the...

In this study, the problem of scheduling a set of jobs and one uncertain maintenance activity on a single machine, with the objective of minimizing the makespan is addressed. The maintenance activity has a given duration and must be executed within a given time window. Furthermore, duration and...

The problem of scheduling jobs on parallel machines (identical, uniform, or unrelated), under incompatibility relation modeled as a block graph, under the makespan optimality criterion, is considered in this paper. No two jobs that are in the relation (equivalently in the same block) may be...

A manufacturing company's production-related decision-making is to a large extent characterized by machine scheduling and support device operations management. All these industrial equipment types consume energy, often in the form of electricity. This electricity is more and more provided by...