The penetration of renewable energies is increasing in power systems all over the world.
The volatility and intermittency of renewable energies pose real challenges to energy …

Steel-making and continuous casting (SCC) processes are considered the main bottlenecks
in the steel industry. We consider planning and scheduling problems in SCC processes and …

Steelmaking–refining–continuous casting (SRCC), as a key electricity-intensive and flexible
process in the integrated iron and steel production route, has great potential in providing …

To solve the hybrid flow-shop scheduling problem in sand casting enterprises with
multivariate and multistage production characteristics, an improved cuckoo algorithm was …

Many modern manufacturing settings feature especially close relationship of the
transportation of workpieces between production steps with the scheduling of manufacturing …

This paper proposes a novel intelligent scheduling method based on deep reinforcement
learning (DRL) to solve the multi-objective steelmaking-continuous casting (SCC) …

We investigate a general single-batch-processing machine scheduling problem of
minimizing the total costs of all jobs with general convex piecewise linear cost functions …

Time-of-use (TOU) tariff has been implemented in the manufacturing industry to improve
energy efficiency by regulating the electricity imbalance between supply and demand …

The combined increase of energy demand and environmental pollution on a global scale is
forcing a rethinking, in sustainable terms, of energy supply policies and production models …

Sand-casting is a process with a high-environmental impact in terms of both energy
consumption and pollution emission. This work presents a meta-heuristic approach for the …