This paper investigates common (slack) due-date assignment single-machine scheduling with controllable processing times within a group technology environment. Under linear and convex resource allocation functions, the cost function minimizes (including weighted sum of earliness, tardiness, assignment, where weights are position-dependent) resource-allocation costs. Given some optimal properties...

Maintenance, particularly preventive maintenance, is a crucial measure to ensure the operational reliability, availability, and profitability of complex industrial systems such as nuclear asset, wind turbines, railway trains, etc. Powered by continuous advancement sensor technology, condition-based group maintenance has become available enhance execution efficiency accuracy plans. The majority ...

In simple flow shop problems, each machine operation center includes just one machine. If at least one machine center includes more than one machine, the scheduling problem becomes a flexible flow-shop problem. Recently, group scheduling has also been proposed and discussed. In the group scheduling, each job belongs to a specific group and all the jobs are processed group by group. In this pape...

Nowadays, by successful application of on time production concept in other concepts like production management and storage, the need to complete the processing of jobs in their delivery time is considered a key issue in industrial environments. Unrelated parallel machines scheduling is a general mood of classic problems of parallel machines. In some of the applications of unrelated parallel mac...