Following the scarcity of resources, rising energy prices, and an increasing awareness of the
role manufacturing plays in the generation of greenhouse gas emissions, the consumption …

New industrial revolution-“The 4th industrial revolution” must be a remarkable milestone for
the second decade of the twenty-first century. Many countries are competing to innovate …

The increasing number of studies that underline the relationship between industry 4.0 and
sustainability shows that sustainability is one of the pillars of smart factories. Through a …

Climate change mitigation, the goal of reducing CO2 emissions, more stringent regulations
and the increment in energy costs have pushed researchers to study energy efficiency and …

The industrial sector is one of the largest energy consumers in the world. To alleviate the
grid's burden during peak hours, time-of-use (TOU) electricity pricing has been implemented …

This paper investigates an energy-conscious unrelated parallel machine scheduling
problem under time-of-use (TOU) electricity pricing scheme, in which the electricity price …

Selecting a set of reasonable milling parameters of computerized numerical control (CNC)
machines is of great importance in decreasing energy consumption and enhancing …

Integrated production and distribution scheduling are important problems in a manufacturing
system, distribution system, and system collaborative optimization. Under the carbon …

The reduction of the electricity demand during peak periods is considered a main objective
of electricity load management. It can relieve the financial pressure of the investment on the …

Increasing energy efficiency in manufacturing has significant environmental and cost
benefits. Turning on or off a machine dynamically while considering the production rate …