Production Scheduling (PS) is an essential paradigm within supply and manufacturing
systems and an important element of sustainable development. PS, mainly known for its …

Today´ s manufacturing companies need to adapt more than ever to changing customer
needs, rising resource costs and increasing uncertainties. A promising way to face these …

Over the last fifty-plus years, the increased complexity and speed of integrated circuits have
radically changed our world. Today, semiconductor manufacturing is perhaps the most …

This paper describes a model predictive control strategy to find the optimal decision
variables to maximize profit in supply chains with multiproduct, multiechelon distribution …

This study presents a simulation optimization approach for a hybrid flow shop scheduling
problem in a real-world semiconductor back-end assembly facility. The complexity of the …

On the premise of discrete simulation technology, the study developed a simulation
approach to quantify firms' business operations and performances in a multi-tier supply …

Discrete-event simulation is a decision support tool which enables practitioners to model
and analyze their own system behavior. Although simulation packages are capable of …

In this paper, a unique Iterative Optimization-based Simulation (IOS) framework is
presented, which includes a threefold integration of simulation, optimization and database …

In diesem Kapitel werden heuristische Lösungsverfahren für den in Kapitel 3 beschriebenen
hierarchischen Steuerungsansatz entwickelt. Der Einsatz von Heuristiken ist wesentlich, da …

This article addresses the problem of dynamic job scheduling on a single machine with
Poisson arrivals, stochastic processing times and due dates, in the presence of sequence …