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 …

Supply chains are large, complex, and often unpredictable. Purchasing and supply
managers and supply chain risk managers need methods and tools to enable them to …

Global competition, advancements in technology and ever changing customers' demand
have made the manufacturing companies to realize the importance of flexible manufacturing …

While there is considerable pressure to improve the operation of supply chains, their
inherent complexity can make modeling a supply chain a difficult task. This difficulty is …

This paper focuses on the deadlock-free scheduling problem of automated manufacturing
systems with shared resources and route flexibility, and develops novel scheduling methods …

In this paper, autonomous vehicles are considered for addressing logistic operations in
manufacturing systems. The starting idea consists in organizing a given group of …

This paper presents the design and the implementation of a Petri net (PN) model for the
control of a flexible manufacturing system (FMS). A flexible automotive manufacturing …

Presents strategies with reachability graph analysis for optimizing resource allocation
systems Supervisory Control and Scheduling of Resource Allocation Systems offers an …

The multiple lot size scheduling problem plays a crucial role in minimizing production and
setup costs in order to respond to constant fluctuations in customer demands. However, the …

This paper proposes and evaluates a hybrid search strategy and its application to flexible
manufacturing system (FMS) scheduling in a Petri net framework. Petri nets can concisely …