Railway track maintenance and renewal are vital for railway safety, train punctuality, travel comfort. Therefore, having cost-effective is critical in managing infrastructure assets. There has been a considerable amount of research performed on mathematical decision support models improving the application planning scheduling. This article reviews literature scheduling transforms results into p...

This paper presents a new mathematical model for a production system through a scheduling problem considering a material handling system as an intelligent transportation system by automated guided vehicles (AGVs). The traditional systems cannot respond to the changes and customer’s demands and for this reason, a flexible production system is used. Therefore, for this purpose, automated transpor...

There are notable differences between the real problems of scheduling and the theoretical patterns. This paper develops an algorithmic approach to the scheduling of aircraft maintenance, taking into account the operating conditions imposed by the maintenance company. The basic differences with regard to RCPS stem from the following factors: the variation between morning and afternoon shifts; th...

A range of minimization methods exist enabling planners to tackle tough scheduling problems. We compare three scheduling techniques representative of “old” or standard technologies, evolving technologies, and advanced technologies. The problem we address includes the complications of scheduling long-term upgrades and refurbishments essential to maintaining expensive capital assets. We concentra...

In this paper, a new approach for preventive maintenance of generating units in a competitive market environment is proposed. The objective of the generator maintenance scheduling (GMS) problem is to find the precise time interval for maintenance of power generating units with an objective criterion of maximizing the profit of individual generation companies (GenCo’s) present in an electricity ...

Traditional scheduling problems with the batch processing machines (BPM) assume that machines are continuously available, and no time is needed for their preventive maintenance (PM). In this paper, we study a realistic variant of flowshop scheduling which integrates flow shop batch processing machines (FBPM) and preventive maintenance for minimizing the makespan. In order to tackle the given pr...