Sustainable manufacturing appears to be a rapidly developing field and it would be
expected that there is a growing body of knowledge in this area. Initial examination of the …

Industrial companies are nowadays acting in global production networks (GPNs). A
comprehensive scientific overview of those networks is still missing. To close this gap, a …

This paper aims to provide a systematic overview of the state of the art in energy and
resource efficiency increasing methods and techniques in the domain of discrete part …

The global society faces huge challenges to meet the expanding needs of a growing
population within the constraints posed by a climate crisis and a strongly accelerated loss of …

Permutation flow shop scheduling problems (PFSPs) have been extensively studied
because of its broad industrial applications. However, setup and transportation time are …

Manufacturing performance is very crucial to the success of any organization. Hence, it
becomes imperative for manufacturing industries to adopt sustainability measures …

The traditional production scheduling problem considers performance indicators such as
processing time, cost, and quality as optimization objectives in manufacturing systems; …

Combining the emerged advanced technologies (such as cloud computing,'internet of thing',
virtualization, and service-oriented technologies, advanced computing technologies) with …

Due to increasing energy requirements and associated environmental impacts, nowadays
manufacturing companies are facing the emergent challenges to meet the demand of …

Recently, there has been an increasing concern on the carbon efficiency of the
manufacturing industry. Since the carbon emissions in the manufacturing sector are directly …