Scheduling problems play a big role in manufacturing and planning the production for increasing the production efficiency and assigning the resources to operations. Furthermore, in many manufacturing systems there is a physical space between stages that called intermediate buffers. In this study, a model is proposed for minimizing the makespan of a hybrid flow shop scheduling problem with inter...

Enterprise-control system integration between business systems, manufacturing execution systems and shop-floor process-control systems remains a key issue for facilitating the deployment of plant-wide information-control systems for practical e-Businessto-Manufacturing industry-led issues. This achievement of the Integration-inManufacturing paradigm based on centralized/distributed hardware/sof...

236 ICMS: A Cloud-Based System for Production Management Xi Vincent Wang, Lihui Wang, and Mohammad Givehchi OS 1001 1.1 1 Cloud-Based Manufacturing I 163 Protecting Intellectual Property in a Cloud Manufacturing Environment: Requirements and Strategies Yuqian Lu and Xun Xu OS 1001 1.1 2 Cloud-Based Manufacturing I 172 Integrate Product Planning Process of OKP Companies in the Cloud Manufacturin...

Clustering parts and machines into part families and machine cells is a major decision in the design of cellular manufacturing systems which is defined as cell formation. This paper presents a non-linear mixed integer programming model to design cellular manufacturing systems which assumes that the arrival rate of parts into cells and machine service rate are stochastic parameters and descri...

Cellular manufacturing (CM) is one of the most important subfields in the design of manufacturing systems and as a recently emerged field of study and practice, virtual cellular manufacturing (VCM) inherits the importance from CM. One type of VCM problems is VCM with alternative processing routes from which the route for processing each part should be selected. In this research, a bi-objective ...

This paper discusses the body of knowledge known as complex systems theory and its relevance to manufacturing organizations. It begins by addressing the development of systems thinking, in order to explore the different views on how systems should be studied. This initial commentary provides an introduction to the concepts of the complex systems theory approach, along with its various metaphors...