The fourth industrial revolution and the digital transformation of consumer markets require contemporary manufacturers to rethink and reshape their business models to deal with the …
This paper presents a solution methodology to solve the heterogeneous vehicle routing problem with time windows (HVRPTW). This problem appears when a limited fleet of …
The Assembly Line Part Feeding Problem (ALPFP) is a complex combinatorial optimisation problem concerned with the delivery of the required parts to the assembly workstations in …
B Zhou, Z He - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The green scheduling plays an increasingly important role in many manufacturing enterprises and trading off the Just-in-Time (JIT) and energy efficiency is a complex …
H Diefenbach, S Emde, CH Glock - European Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Electric vehicle scheduling is concerned with assigning a fleet of electrically powered vehicles to a set of timetabled trips. Since the range of these vehicles is limited, charging …
B Zhou, T Peng - Assembly Automation, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to investigate the just-in-time (JIT) in-house logistics problem for automotive assembly lines. A point-to-point (P2P) JIT distribution model has been …
B Zhou, L Zhao - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
With the development of personalized and differentiated customization demands, mixed- model assembly lines have been increasingly adopted by manufacturing enterprises due to …
J Chen, X Jia, Q He - International Journal of Production Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The manufacturing industry has been pursuing an efficient and economical assembly system. By considering assembly line balancing (ALB) and part feeding (PF) as an …