Deadlock control of automated manufacturing systems based on Petri nets—A literature review

ZW Li, NQ Wu, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deadlocks are a rather undesirable situation in a highly automated flexible manufacturing
system. Their occurrences often deteriorate the utilization of resources and may lead to …

Scheduling of resource allocation systems with timed Petri nets: A survey

B Huang, M Zhou, XS Lu, A Abusorrah - ACM Computing Surveys, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Resource allocation systems (RASs) belong to a kind of discrete event system commonly
seen in the industry. In such systems, available resources are allocated to concurrently …

Task allocation and planning for product disassembly with human–robot collaboration

ML Lee, S Behdad, X Liang, M Zheng - Robotics and Computer-Integrated …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a comprehensive disassembly sequence planning (DSP) algorithm in
the human–robot collaboration (HRC) setting with consideration of several important factors …

Disassembly sequence planning: a survey

X Guo, MC Zhou, A Abusorrah… - IEEE/CAA Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is well-recognized that obsolete or discarded products can cause serious environmental
pollution if they are poorly be handled. They contain reusable resource that can be recycled …

Heuristic scheduling of batch production processes based on petri nets and iterated greedy algorithms

Z Zhao, S Liu, MC Zhou, D You… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wire rod and bar rolling is an important batch production process in steel production
systems. A scheduling problem originated from this process is studied in this work by …

Multiresource-constrained selective disassembly with maximal profit and minimal energy consumption

X Guo, MC Zhou, S Liu, L Qi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industrial products' reuse, recovery, and recycling are very important due to the exhaustion
of ecological resources. Effective product disassembly planning methods can improve the …

A Hierarchical structure of key performance indicators for operation management and continuous improvement in production systems

N Kang, C Zhao, J Li, JA Horst - International journal of production …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are critical for manufacturing operation management and
continuous improvement (CI). In modern manufacturing systems, KPIs are defined as a set of …

Elementary siphons of Petri nets and their application to deadlock prevention in flexible manufacturing systems

ZW Li, MC Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and …, 2004 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A variety of important Petri net-based methods to prevent deadlocks arising in flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS) are to add some control places and related arcs to strict …

Disassembly sequence optimization for large-scale products with multiresource constraints using scatter search and Petri nets

X Guo, S Liu, MC Zhou, G Tian - IEEE transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disassembly modeling and planning are meaningful and important to the reuse, recovery,
and recycling of obsolete and discarded products. However, the existing methods pay little …

Multiverse optimization algorithm for stochastic biobjective disassembly sequence planning subject to operation failures

Y Fu, MC Zhou, X Guo, L Qi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Disassembly is an essential step in a remanufacturing process via which valuable parts and
material of end-of-life (EOL) products can be well reused and resource waste is reduced …