Deep reinforcement learning in smart manufacturing: A review and prospects

C Li, P Zheng, Y Yin, B Wang, L Wang - CIRP Journal of Manufacturing …, 2023 - Elsevier
To facilitate the personalized smart manufacturing paradigm with cognitive automation
capabilities, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has attracted ever-increasing attention by …

Reinforcement learning for logistics and supply chain management: Methodologies, state of the art, and future opportunities

Y Yan, AHF Chow, CP Ho, YH Kuo, Q Wu… - … Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
With advances in technologies, data science techniques, and computing equipment, there
has been rapidly increasing interest in the applications of reinforcement learning (RL) to …

Deep learning applications in manufacturing operations: a review of trends and ways forward

S Sahoo, S Kumar, MZ Abedin, WM Lim… - Journal of Enterprise …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Deep learning (DL) technologies assist manufacturers to manage their business
operations. This research aims to present state-of-the-art insights on the trends and ways …

Reinforcement learning applied to production planning and control

A Esteso, D Peidro, J Mula… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The objective of this paper is to examine the use and applications of reinforcement learning
(RL) techniques in the production planning and control (PPC) field addressing the following …

A novel multi-attention reinforcement learning for the scheduling of unmanned shipment vessels (USV) in automated container terminals

J Zhu, W Zhang, L Yu, X Guo - Omega, 2024 - Elsevier
To improve the operating efficiency of container terminals, we investigate a closed-loop
scheduling method in an autonomous inter-terminal system that employs unmanned …

A decade of engineering-to-order (2010–2020): Progress and emerging themes

VG Cannas, J Gosling - International Journal of Production Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
In 2009 a literature review on supply chain management in Engineer-to-Order (ETO)
situations was published in the International Journal of Production Economics (Gosling and …

Multi agent reinforcement learning for online layout planning and scheduling in flexible assembly systems

L Kaven, P Huke, A Göppert, RH Schmitt - Journal of Intelligent …, 2024 - Springer
Manufacturing systems are undergoing systematic change facing the trade-off between the
customer's needs and the economic and ecological pressure. Especially assembly systems …

Dynamic storage location assignment in warehouses using deep reinforcement learning

C Waubert de Puiseau, DT Nanfack, H Tercan… - Technologies, 2022 - mdpi.com
The warehousing industry is faced with increasing customer demands and growing global
competition. A major factor in the efficient operation of warehouses is the strategic storage …

A three-dimensional spatial resource-constrained project scheduling problem: Model and heuristic

J Zhang, L Li, E Demeulemeester, H Zhang - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
For a class of complex engineering projects executed in limited construction sites, spatial
resources with three dimensions usually become a bottleneck that hampers their smooth …

An inspection network with dynamic feature extractor and task alignment head for steel surface defect

S Gao, T **a, G Hong, Y Zhu, Z Chen, E Pan, L ** - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
High-precision identification and real-time localization for irregular-shaped steel surface
defects are crucial for shipbuilding quality control. Although traditional lightweight networks …