Purpose This paper aims to propose and formulate a complicated routing/scheduling problem for multiple automated guided vehicles (AGVs) in a manufacturing system. Design/methodology/approach Considering the due date of AGVs requiring for material handling among shops in a jobshop layout, their...

This paper develops a novel mixed integer nonlinear programming model for the intra-cell layout design of dynamic cellular manufacturing systems. In dynamic environment, the product mix and part demand are varying during a multi-period planning horizon. As a result, the cell configuration for...

There is commonly a large volume of data and several types of features in the production process that impact the final product's quality and can be used for process control. Quality control in the production process plays a key role to ensure product quality. So, defect prediction can help...