The enormous impact of artificial intelligence has been realized in transforming the fashion
and apparel industry in the past decades. However, the research in this domain is scattered …

Computer-based manufacturing scheduling tools can play a key role in the management of
industrial operations, as obtaining economic and reliable schedules is at the core of …

This paper considers a flexible flow shop scheduling problem, where at least one production
stage is made up of unrelated parallel machines. Moreover, sequence-and machine …

Recent practices in textile supply chains (SC) show a growing concern for sustainability not
only in its economic dimension, but fundamentally in its environmental and social ones. One …

The textile industry is an important sector of the Brazilian economy, being considered the
fifth largest textile industry in the world. To support further growth and development in this …

This study deals with production and distribution planning for a textile and apparel supply
chain. Given the seasonal nature of demand, global character of the textile and apparel …

This paper presents a scheduling approach for yarn-dyed textile manufacturing. The
scheduling problem is distinct in having four characteristics: multi-stage production …

In this paper, we investigate a two-stage lot-sizing and scheduling problem in a spinning
industry. A new hybrid method called HOPS (Hamming-Oriented Partition Search), which is …

In the present business environment, rapidly developing technology and the competitive
world market pose challenges to the available assets of industries. Hence, industries need …

Mass-customisation production is a new manufacturing approach to produce customised
products based on requirements of individual customers while maintaining the quality and …