Scheduling of production in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs) has been extensively investigated over the past years and it continues to attract the interest of both academic researchers and practitioners. The generation ...

Struggling in world's competitive markets, industries are attempting to upgrade their technologies aiming at improving the quality and minimizing the waste and cutting the price. Industry tries to develop their technology ...

This paper assumes the cell formation problem as a distributed decision network. It proposes an approach based on application and extension of information theory concepts, in order to analyze informational complexity in ...

During 21st century, manufacturing success and survival are becoming more difficult to ensure this fact is originated in the emergency of new business era that has "change" as one of its major characteristics. Change in ...

ToToday's market place is increasingly dynamic and volatile. In this area supply network issues recently have attracted a lot of attention from industrial practitioners and academics worldwide. Chaos theory is the study ...

In this paper, the researchers have investigated a Concatenated Robot Move (CRM) sequence problem and Minimal Part Set (MPS) schedule problem with different setup times for two-machine robotic cell. They have focused on ...