Production scheduling that involves maintenance activities and resource constraints plays a
crucial role in manufacturing and service environments of the modern age. While research …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of discrete event simulation publications
published between 2002 and 2013 with a particular focus on applications in manufacturing …

Production synchronization is an emerging paradigm in advanced manufacturing systems,
with which the inventory space and cost of finished products can be significantly reduced …

Reliability and safety analyses are the most important activities for reducing risk of failure
events and upgrading availability of manufacturing industries. The traditional statistical …

Production scheduling and maintenance planning are two of the most important tasks that
managers face before implementing their decisions on the shop floor. Another issue …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to implement the six sigma (SS) strategy in a bag
sector under actual operating circumstances based on defining-measure-analyze-improve …

Featured Application Reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) analysis which could
benefit all manufacturing plantssuch as food, automotive, oil, and gasetc., with immediate …

In light of various environmental issues regarding electricity generation and usage, several
approaches have been suggested to decrease energy usage. One well-known method on …

Effective management of production often requires harmonizing maintenance and
production activities. However, decsions on production scheduling and machine …

Considering the impact of machine availability is essential in production scheduling,
especially when the target is to minimise total tardiness. In this study, a single machine …