Planning, scheduling and delivery of shipments in workshops and factories active in the field
of custom manufacturing industries are two important arms in the decision-making process …

How to deal with the contradiction between scale production effect and customized demand
is the key problem on studying mass customization (MC). When MC is operating in supply …

An important production programming problem arises in paper industries coupling multiple
machine scheduling with cutting stocks. Concerning machine scheduling: how can the …

In many manufacturing industries, the production process involves the production of objects
and the cutting of such objects into smaller pieces in order to meet a specific demand. In the …

This study deals with the development of a model for a production line in a corrugated box
factory. The main feature of the study is to combine different problems in a single model. The …

Vertical pulp and paper production is challenging from a process point of view. Managers
must deal with floating bottlenecks, intermediate storage levels, and by-product production …

Production planning in molded pulp packaging companies involves decisions about setting
up appropriately the production process to meet the demands of different products. This …

Scheduling optimization is still more and more important issue in mass customization
manufacturing. Its goal is to overcome one of the drawbacks of mass customization for …

The design and production of apparel industry are a combination between the arts, the
engineering, and the technology section. This paper enhances to find the optimal …

The objective of the article is to present the linking of simulation and planning software. The
paper begins with a review of recent literature as well as description of the problem under …