Scheduling involving setup times/costs plays an important role in today's modern
manufacturing and service environments for the delivery of reliable products on time. The …

The past few years have witnessed a resurgence of interest in assembly flow shop
scheduling as evidenced by increasing number of published articles in this field. A basic …

A reinforcement learning-driven brain storm optimisation idea (RLBSO) is proposed in this
paper to solve multi-objective energy-efficient distributed assembly no-wait flow shop …

Many activities in industry and services require the scheduling of tasks that can be
concurrently executed, the most clear example being perhaps the assembly of products …

Many manufacturing systems need more than one type of resource to co-work with.
Commonly studied flexible job shop scheduling problems merely consider the main …

Effective job scheduling is crucial in production to reduce costs, improve customer
satisfaction, enhance efficiency, and boost competitiveness, leading to transformative …

Traditionally, scheduling literature has focused mainly on solving problems related to
processing jobs with non-assembly operations. Despite the growing interest in the assembly …

With the increasing demand for automotive glass, improving the efficiency of automotive
glass manufacturing systems can make full use of production resources and reduce the …

In this paper, flexible preventive maintenance (PM) activities are incorporated into two-stage
assembly flow shop scheduling where m dedicated machines in the fabrication stage and …

The single machine scheduling problem which involves uncertain job due dates is one of
the most important issues in the real make-to-order environment. To deal with the …