production planning and scheduling are the most important issues of the production industries, which have a considerable influence on the productivity of the production systems. although, production planning and scheduling are in two different medium-term and short-term decision making levels, there are a very close relationship between them. ignoring this important feature in production planni...

presence of distributed generation (dg) in electric distribution systems provides an attractive new alternative in capacity expansion planning of these systems. in this paper a new model is developed for solving simultaneous placement of hv/mv substations and dg units as a static planning tool. this model aims to minimize fixed and variable costs of planning. constraints related to dgs, substat...

Among all the challenges which highlight need of reconfigurability in manufacturing systems, taking into account introduction a new product has been rarely considered by researchers. Indeed, variants future production generation line at initial design stage smooths reconfiguration process line. This paper studies mixed-model assembly planning problem where consists several resources (workers an...

In this paper recently developed mixed-integer programming (MIP) tools to the problem of optimal siting and sizing of distributed generators in a distribution network. Here three methodologies for solving the DGPP via mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) approaches are compared. The single MILP approach uses the well-known DC linear approximati...

This paper presents a review of past and present results approaches in the area motion planning using MIP (Mixed-integer Programming). Although early 2000s was still seen with reluctance as method for solving planning-related problems, nowadays, due to increases computational power theoretical advances, its extensive modeling capabilities versatility are coming fore enjoy increased application ...

Dynamic Reconfiguration is the process of changing a component-based system with minimum disruption and maximum automation. This process consists of three phases i.e. sensing the present state, planning for a new state and acting on the system to move it to the new state. Although, there are techniques and models for the sensing and acting phases, planning is a relatively neglected phase in thi...

In order to implement the cellular manufacturing system in practice, some essential factors should be taken into account. In this paper, a new mathematical model for cellular manufacturing system considering different production factors including alternative process routings and machine reliability with stochastic arrival and service times in a dynamic environment is proposed. Also because of t...

Dynamic Reconfiguration is the process of changing a component-based system with minimum disruption and maximum automation. This process consists of three phases i.e. sensing the present state, planning for a new state and acting on the system to move it to the new state. Although, there are techniques and models for the sensing and acting phases, planning is a relatively neglected phase in thi...

Grouping the machines and parts in a cellular manufacturing system based on similarities is known as the cell formation. This paper proposes a method for design of cell layout for a manufacturing system under dynamic demand environment for automation batch production industry. The proposed method of cell layout has two phases. In the first phase, Rank Order Clustering (ROC) was used to determin...