This paper investigates the multistage hybrid flow shop (HFS) scheduling problems using the new bat algorithm. A HFS is the generalisation of flowshop with multiple machines. HFS is one of the important scheduling problems that represent many industries like iron and steel, chemical, textile and ceramic industries. The HFS scheduling problems have been proved to be NP-hard. A recently developed...

The Iranian Environment Protection Agency (IEPA) in collaboration with Iranian Industries Organization (IIO) need to design a relevant database for the industries information based on the initial screening of Iranian Evaluator Team (IET) in certain clusters. However, we aware of this fact that all industrial projects should go through the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) after and along wi...

In the case of -many manufactured products abnormalities can easily be recognized by their luminescence. Because of this the observation ofluminescence has provided valuable as a check in many industries such as the textile industry, thepaper industry, the paint industry, the rubber industry, food industries and laundries: The ultra violet radiation' of mercury lamps is used for exciting lumine...

The industrial waste water containing the various dyes is responsible for water pollution, due to their carcinogenic behaviour. Lots of investigations reported that 10-12% of dyes are used every year in textile industries such as Rose Bengal, Victoria blue, Thymol blue, Caramine, Indigo Red, Red 120, Rhodamine B, Methylene Blue, Eriochrome Black-T (EBT) [1-4] of which are major portion (20%) lo...

Quality control of textile products is an important stage in textile industries. To this end, the conventional method in fault detection is human inspection. In the present work, Wavelet transform was applied on images of simple circular knitted fabrics to diagnose five regular defects. The results showed that the method applied was accurate and fast in addition to being capable of determining ...

Textile wastewater discharge is one of the big aquatic pollution problem in Indonesia. Although treatment had been applied to reduce the concentration of pollutants, the textile wastewater discharge often still keep the concentration of pollutant that is above the limit for the usage of the river water. Phycoremediation, the use of microalgae to clean up the wastewater, had been developed and a...

Even though exhibition examination is worried about assessing labourers' work execution, it simultaneously features the particular targets of an association. As worker being evaluated, association likewise sets itself by looking at goals and guidelines audits entire system plan, hierarchical qualities culture. Execution a genuine apparatus for associations to assess expand nature instruction pr...