Industries tend to manufacture higher quality products with a low cost due to the competitive
environmental loop and dynamic customers' demand. The integration of intelligent …

There is extensive literature on the reconfiguration of manufacturing systems; however, there
are only a few decision support approaches that allow full advantage to be taken of the …

The energy efficient operation of a manufacturing system is important for sustainable
development of industry. Apart from the device and process level, energy saving methods at …

Energy-efficient operation of manufacturing systems is critical for industrial enterprises in
current environmentally conscious society. Decreasing the idle time of a machine is one of …

Complex production systems can produce more than one part type. For these systems,
production rate and priority of production for each part type is determined by production …

This paper considers the design and the practical implementation of a stable multiple
objective real-time scheduling problem for a complex production system. In this paper, a …

This paper deals with the development of an intelligent distributed and supervised control
approach for high-volume production systems, in which the flow of parts can be …

An important issue not addressed in the literature, is related to the selection of the fitness
function parameters which are used in the evolution process of fuzzy logic controllers for …

Complex production systems can produce more than one part type under multiple and
possibly conflicting objectives. This paper considers the design of the multiple objective real …

Work-in-process (WIP) control and energy consumption management are two important
aspects of modern manufacturing systems. This paper proposes a bi-objective strategy that …