Mixed-model assembly lines are widely used in a range of production settings,such as the nal assembly of the automotive and electronics industries,where they are applied to mass-produce standardized commodities. One ofthe greatest challenges when installing and reconguring these lines is thevast...

A mixed-model assembly line requires the solution of a short-term sequencing prob-lem, which decides on the succession of different models launched down the line.A famous solution approach stemming from the Toyota Production System is theso-called Level Scheduling (LS), which aims to distribute...

In modern rail-rail transshipment yards huge gantry cranes spanning all railwaytracks allow for an ecient transshipment of containers between differentfreight trains. This way, multiple trains loaded with cargo for varying destinationscan be consolidated to a reduced number of homogeneous...

At cross docking terminals incoming deliveries of inbound trucks are unloaded,sorted, moved across the dock and nally loaded onto outboundtrucks, which immediately leave the terminal towards their next destinationin the distribution chain. Accordingly, a cross dock is a consolidationpoint in a...

A mixed-model assembly line requires the solution of a short-term sequencing prob-lem which decides on the succession of different models launched down the line. Afamous solution approach stemming from the Toyota Production System is the socalled Level Scheduling, which aims at distributing the...

Assembly line balancing problems (ALBP) consist of distributing the total workload for manufacturing any unit of the productsto be assembled among the work stations along a manufacturing line as used in the automotive or the electronics industries.Usually, it is assumed in research papers that,...

Rail-rail transshipment yards are an emerging and more ecient alternative totraditional shunting yards. Instead of a time-consuming reshuing of railcarsvia shunting hills, in these modern yards, huge gantry cranes tranship containersbetween different freight trains. As multiple cranes process...

At rail-road transshipment yards, gantry cranes move containers from freighttrains to trucks and vice versa. They constitute important entities in today'sintermodal transportation systems. Real-world yards are often partitionedinto several disjunct crane areas, so that crane interferences during...

The generation of leveled production schedules is of high impor-tance for mixed-model assembly lines whose parts and materials are suppliedjust-in-time by multi-level production processes. The Output Rate Variatonproblem is the standard mathematical representation of this complex levelscheduling...

Scheduling landings of aircrafts is an essential problem which is continuouslysolved as part of the daily operations of an airport control tower. All planesin the airspace of an airport are to be assigned to landing slots by the respon-sible air-trac controller. The support of this decision...