This paper analyses the production planning for the multi mixed-model assembly lines (MMMAL) for building elements prefabrication. Industrialised housebuilding (IHB) prefabrication plants struggle with increasing the productivity of existing prefabrication equipment through the application of...

This study deals with the scheduling problem to minimize makespan at a wet clean station in semiconductor fabrication. The wet clean station is comprised of sequential chemical and rinsing baths for cleaning wafer lots and multiple robot arms for lot handling. In the station, wafer lots are...

The high integration of variable renewable sources in electric power systems entails a series of challenges inherent to their intrinsic variability. A critical challenge is to correctly value the water available in reservoirs in hydrothermal systems, considering the flexibility that it provides....

Background: Order picking is a critical activity in end-product warehouses, particularly using the picker-to-part system, entail substantial manual labor, representing approximately 60% of warehouse work. Methods: This study develops a new linear model to perform batching, which allows for...

This paper investigates single machine scheduling problems with release time and random processing time, where the release time can be either deterministic or random. The objective is to determine a scheduling sequence that performs well in terms of out-of-sample performance. To achieve this, we...

The knowledge of future partial information in the form of a lookahead to design efficient online algorithms is a theoretically-efficient and realistic approach to solving computational problems. Design and analysis of semi-online algorithms with \textit{extra piece of information (EPI)} as a...

We develop an appointment scheduling model for a healthcare clinic that includes an upper bound on expected patient wait times. We refer to the schedule it produces as an equitable schedule. The operating environment of our focal clinic included three complicating features, all of which are...