This paper presents a bi-objective competitive facility location model for congested systems in which entering facilities will compete with the competitors' facilities for capturing the market share. In the proposed model, ...

The aim of this article is to present an overview of industry 4.0. Thus our goal in this research is to give a brief perspective of what Industry 4.0 is, its challenges in today context, and to present how we have to design ...

Quality control is of paramount importance to any company in improving the product quality. Due to changing industry standards and competitive issues, embracing quality engineering techniques for strong operations support ...

Modern retail supply chains are more and more exposed to risks and uncertainties. The supply risk such as the uncertainty of the supplier fill rate (SFR) directly affects the performance of a retail supply chain. The purpose ...

Nowadays, produced wastes in urban areas are growing exponentially all over the world. On the other hand, the environment and natural resources are on the way to destruction. One way to deal with increasing waste generation ...

Reliability-redundancy allocation problem (RRAP) is one of the most practical methods used to improve system reliability through performing a tradeoff between reliability and redundancy levels of components. RRAP aims to ...