This paper presents a decision making approach for mid-term scheduling of large industrial consumers based on the recently introduced class of Stochastic Dominance (SD)- constrained stochastic programming. In this study, the electricity price in the pool as well as the rate of availability (unavailability) of the generating unit (forced outage rate) is considered as uncertain parameters. Th...

The production system where production facilities and products are widely distributed like a construction production project causes problems by combining and communicating production facilities mutually. There is a limit of the traditional approaches, where the system obtains the product information from the production facilities. In this paper, the production system architecture which manages ...

Scheduling is an important tool for a manufacturing system, where it can have a major impact on the productivity of a production process. In manufacturing systems, the purpose of scheduling is to minimize the production time and costs, by assigning a production facility when to make, with which staff, and on which equipment. Production scheduling aims to maximize the efficiency of the operation...

In recent years, an increasing interest in the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the area of industrial production planning and scheduling could be observed. Most of the developed systems addressed the problem of scheduling the production activities of a single plant. However, within many industrial enterprises the production processes are distributed over several manufacturing sites...

Over the past decade, a large (and continually increasing) number of efforts (both research and development) have sought to investigate and exploit the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts and techniques in production management applications. In some cases, Al-based concepts have provided frameworks for making traditional Operations Research (OR) techniques more accessible and usable in...

Semiconductor manufacturing is one of the most complex and capital-intensive processes composed of several hundreds of operations. In today's competitive business environments, it is more important than ever before to manage manufacturing process effectively to achieve better performances in terms of customer satisfaction and productivity than those of competitors. To obtain such fruitful outco...

Conventional approach to solving scheduling problems using constraint technology is based on a static formulation of the problem; in particular all the scheduled activities are expected to be known in advance. Such static formulation is not capable to solve many real-life planning and scheduling problems where the appearance of the activity depends on allocation of other activities during sched...

The paper describes the possible roles of the simulation and emulation in production planning and scheduling as well as in production control systems through a casestudy for optimizing the internal logistic system of a given production system. In the study focuses on the control of a transportation unit and automated storage and retrieval system are focused on. A complex simulation study has be...