The support of manufacturing machines with IT solutions becomes state-of-the art in the production process. For this reason the European Chinese research project KoBaS (Knowledge Based Customized Services for Traditional Manufacturing Sectors Provided by a Network of High Tech SMEs) aims to create customized services for manufacturing machines providing a set of tools including advanced task an...

National planning and management of the physician workforce is a multifaceted, difficult, and even controversial activity. It is an important subset of overall health workforce planning and management, which contributes to a country's having an effective and efficient health care system. This commentary builds on a new survey of specialty considerations by Israeli medical students early in thei...

General preventive maintenance model for the components of a system, which improves the reliability to ‘as good as new,’ was used to optimize the maintenance cost. The cost function of a maintenance policy was minimized under given availability constraint. On the other hand, in order to ensure appropriate reliability and availability, the development of the optimal maintenanc...

As a part of the Analytics and Insights team at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Anuj specializes in supply chain management, operation management, and optimization. He has worked on various supply chain and manufacturing domain projects. He has a PhD in industrial engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Anuj has worked on applying various meta-heuristics and fuzzy systems ...

Scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems is one of problems in NP-Hard optimization. The aim of scheduling of these systems is to maximize the system efficiency by finding an optimal planning for a better cooperation among various processes. In recent years many algorithms proposed to solve this problem, and most of them are based on heuristic methods. In This paper we have proposed a new a...

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In a real manufacturing system, a machine may need multiple maintenance activities to improve its production efficiency due to the effects of aging or deteriorating. This paper considers scheduling with aging or deteriorating effects and deteriorating maintenance activities simultaneously on a single machine. We assume that the machine may be subject to several maintenance activities during the...