Due to increasing demand uncertainty and product variety, manufacturing systems must
continually adapt to maintain productivity. Generally, decision-makers can maintain flexibility …

Nowadays, manufacturing firms need the reconfigurability capability to be responsive in the
current context characterised by unpredictable and frequent market changes and the …

To realise the intelligent decision-making of dynamic scheduling and reconfiguration, we
studied the intelligent scheduling and reconfiguration with dynamic job arrival for a …

Since the 21st century, with the gradual improvement of customers' living standards and
autonomy, customers are increasingly pursuing personalized products. In order to adapt to …

Establishing business relationships with upstream supply enterprise is one of the features in
aircraft manufacturing supply chain, given the long lead-time and high value-added …

In this study, we adopt a strategy of machine configuration to construct a reliable hybrid flow-
shop manufacturing system (HFSMS) with reworking and scrapping actions, in which the …

With the increased use of collaborative robots, a new production model of the human-robot
collaborative hybrid assembly cell (HRCHAC) is becoming a new trend in customised …

Currently, manufacturers seek to provide customized and sustainable products, requiring
flexible manufacturing systems and advanced production management to cope with …

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMS) offer the potential to improve systemic
responsiveness and flexibility to better cope with dynamic environments. However, the …

Incorporating interface modularity into the traditional structural–functional modular-based
product family architecture (PFA) is of paramount importance for efficient assembly …