Multi-factory production planning and scheduling problems have been increasingly studied
by scholars recently due to market uncertainty, technological trends like Industry 4.0 and …

The complex problems in the real world, an increase in competition among producers, the
advancements in equipment and manufacturing products, the high cost of factory equipment …

The water cycle algorithm (WCA) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic recently contributed to
the community in 2012, which finds its motivation in the natural surface runoff phase in water …

This paper introduces a new integrated multi-factory production and distribution scheduling
problem in supply chain management. This supply chain consists of a number of factories …

In response to increasingly fierce competition and highly customized demands, many
companies adopt a distributed production model but manage their orders in a centralized …

To improve surgical services and hospital performance, collaborative operating room
planning and scheduling across a network of hospitals has recently emerged as a new …

Production scheduling is one of the most critical issues in manufacturing and production
systems and has markedly positive impact on the performances of manufacturing. In the past …

In terms of manufacturing model, it is from the initial stage of manual production model to
mass production model, then to mass customization model, and finally to mass …

In this article, we deal with an integrated scheduling for unrelated parallel machines,
batches, and heterogeneous delivery trucks. In a manufacturing plant, jobs ordered by …

Proper production planning is significantly for enhancing revenue and productivity of
manufacturing companies. This paper focuses on multi-channel supply chain multi-factory …