Way reports six effective productivity tips for repair shops, including using transition windows instead of buffers, planning ...

Abstract: This article considers the problem of cyclic flow shop (CFS) scheduling problems in robotic cells deploying several single and dual gripper robots. In this problem, different part types are ...

Expanding fab capacity is slow and expensive even under ideal circumstances. It has been still more difficult in recent years, as pandemic-related shortages have strained equipment supply chains. When ...

Abstract: A distributed flow-shop scheduling problem with lot-streaming that considers completion time and total energy consumption is addressed. It requires to optimally assign jobs to multiple ...

For e-commerce websites, deciding the manner in which items are listed on webpages is an important issue because it can dramatically affect item sales. One of the simplest strategies for listing items ...

Quantum annealing algorithms belong to the class of metaheuristic tools, applicable for solving binary optimization problems. Hardware implementations of quantum annealing, such as the quantum ...

The massive outage that forced Delta to cancel thousands of flights this week showed how airlines face a relatively new vulnerability that could only get worse — an aging, complex web of computers ...