A critical review of planning and scheduling in steel-making and continuous casting in the steel industry

M Lee, K Moon, K Lee, J Hong… - Journal of the Operational …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Steel-making and continuous casting (SCC) processes are considered the main bottlenecks
in the steel industry. We consider planning and scheduling problems in SCC processes and …

An efficient self-adaptive artificial bee colony algorithm for the distributed resource-constrained hybrid flowshop problem

XR Tao, QK Pan, L Gao - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Distributed factory processing has attracted the attention and application of many companies
because of the low cost and high flexibility. In the present study, the self-adaptive artificial …

A matheuristic for flexible job shop scheduling problem with lot-streaming and machine reconfigurations

J Fan, C Zhang, W Shen, L Gao - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
Multi-variety and small-batch production mode enables manufacturing industries to
expeditiously satisfy customers' personalised demands, where a large amount of identical …

Flexible assembly job shop scheduling problem considering reconfigurable machine: A cooperative co-evolutionary matheuristic algorithm

Y Hu, L Zhang, Z Zhang, Z Li, Q Tang - Applied Soft Computing, 2024‏ - Elsevier
With popularity of mass customization, enterprises urgently need to improve reconfigurability
to handle rapidly changing market demands. Reconfigurable machines have been widely …

Big data and machine learning: A roadmap towards smart plants

B Dorneanu, S Zhang, H Ruan, M Heshmat… - Frontiers of Engineering …, 2022‏ - Springer
Industry 4.0 aims to transform chemical and biochemical processes into intelligent systems
via the integration of digital components with the actual physical units involved. This process …

A feedback-based artificial bee colony algorithm for energy-efficient flexible flow shop scheduling problem with batch processing machines

J Wang, H Tang, D Lei - Applied Soft Computing, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Energy-efficient flexible flow shop scheduling problem (EFFSP) and parallel batch
processing machines (BPM) scheduling problem have been extensively studied; however …

Scheduling unrelated machines with job splitting, setup resources and sequence dependency

I Avgerinos, I Mourtos, S Vatikiotis… - International Journal of …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
We examine the parallel machine scheduling problem where a set of jobs are to be
processed by a set of unrelated parallel machines. We examine the most general among the …

Workforce capacity planning with hierarchical skills, long-term training, and random resignations

C Ruf, JF Bard, R Kolisch - International Journal of Production …, 2022‏ - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses a multistage capacity planning problem for a hierarchically skilled
workforce in a production environment. Recruits are hired with little or no experience and …

Multi-population genetic algorithm with greedy job insertion inter-factory neighbourhoods for multi-objective distributed hybrid flow-shop scheduling with unrelated …

H Cui, X Li, L Gao, C Zhang - International Journal of Production …, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Distributed manufacturing is gradually becoming the future trend. The fierce market
competition makes manufacturing companies focus on productivity and product delivery …

[HTML][HTML] Distributed hybrid flowshop scheduling with consistent sublots under delivery time windows: A penalty lot-assisted iterated greedy algorithm

J Liu, Y Han, Y Wang, Y Liu, B Zhang - Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Integrating the delivery time windows into the distributed hybrid flow shop scheduling
contributes to ensuring the timely delivery of products and enhancing customer satisfaction …