We review the literature about shop scheduling problems in manufacturing systems,
revealing the concepts and methodologies that most impact the usage of scheduling theory …

The technological tools people use for designing buildings have progressed from drawings
to descriptive geometry, and from computer-aided drafting and design (CAD) to building …

Emergent behavior is behavior of a system that does not depend on its individual parts, but
on their relationships to one another. Such behavior exists in biological systems, physical …

The successful implementation of Industry 4.0 requires a comprehensive research, industrial
innovation, strategic plans, and integration of engineering concepts. In this study, we …

The market for electric bicycles has grown extremely and developed rapidly in recent years.
To enter such a market with a new product, the development process has to be fast, and …

Shorter product life cycles and high product variance nowadays require efficient engineering
of products and production systems. Hereby a further challenge is that costs over the entire …

Societal problems concern the complexity of technical, organisational, social, and political
issues. The enormous negative impacts of these problems and the inability of problem …

Modern manufacturing companies operate in environments characterized by increasingly
shorter development cycles and the need to develop highly customizable products at …

Rapid advancements in Information Technology and industrialization methods have
expedited the advent of 4th Industrial revolution also known as integrated industry industrial …

The last two decades of designing large-scale engineering systems have demonstrated that
the even higher complexity of problems requires entirely new solution approaches …