Reinforcement learning for sustainability enhancement of production lines

A Loffredo, MC May, A Matta, G Lanza - Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Springer
The importance of sustainability in industry is dramatically rising in recent years. Controlling
machine states to achieve the best trade-off between production rate and energy demand is …

Energy-efficient production control of a make-to-stock system with buffer-and time-based policies

B Tan, O Karabağ, S Khayyati - International Journal of Production …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Increasing energy efficiency in manufacturing has significant environmental and cost
benefits. Turning on or off a machine dynamically while considering the production rate …

Reinforcement learning for energy-efficient control of parallel and identical machines

A Loffredo, MC May, L Schäfer, A Matta… - CIRP Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the growing interest in industry for enhancing the sustainability of manufacturing
processes is becoming a major trend. Energy consumption can be lowered by controlling …

[HTML][HTML] A prescriptive analytics approach for evaluating two production systems: Simulation optimization algorithm

P Tiwari, D Kim, A Hajian, A Ghasemi - Decision Analytics Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Production systems influence cost performance and carbon emissions. Environmental
concerns compel companies to optimize energy efficiency in their production processes …

Purchasing and remanufacturing decisions with different quality returned material and finished goods

O Karabağ, F Karaesmen, B Tan - International Journal of …, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
To transition from a linear to a circular value chain, an effective refurbishment policy is
crucial to preserve material value and functionality at the end of a product's life-cycle. This …

Transient analysis of production performance and energy consumption in geometric flexible production systems

X Wang, Y Dai, Z Jia, G Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
To meet the growing need for customized products, flexible production systems are gaining
widespread application in modern factories. The inherent complexity of these flexible …

[HTML][HTML] A deterministic fluid model for production and energy mode control of a single machine

B Tan, O Karabağ - International Journal of Production Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Improving machines' energy efficiency through dynamic energy mode control to meet
demand requirements with minimal energy consumption is a promising approach. This study …

Scheduling Unrelated Parallel Batch Processing Machines Under Time-of-Use Electricity Prices

Z Tian, L Zheng - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing energy consumption of manufacturing companies has placed a lot of
pressure on the power grid. To alleviate the pressure and flatten the demand peaks over a …

Modeling and Analysis of Productivity and Energy in Serial Production Lines With Setups

H Dong, J Li - IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reducing energy consumption plays a critical role to implement the carbon peak and carbon
neutral strategies in manufacturing processes with energy-intensive setups and operations …

[HTML][HTML] Energy efficiency improvement of industrial parts washers using state control

A Loffredo, N Frigerio, A Matta - Manufacturing Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the energy efficiency topic drastically increased its relevance in
manufacturing industry management. One of the most supported strategies to reduce the …