Super facilities versus chaining in mitigating disruptions impacts
Dealing disruptions has increasingly attracted researchers' attention in the last decades due to recent events: weather deregulation, natural disasters, financial crisis, etc. Researchers often dealt with the strategic aspect of the problem while making ...
A linear optimization approach to the heterogeneous r-cyclic hoist scheduling problem
The cyclic hoist scheduling problem is encountered in electroplating facilities, when mass production is required. This class of problems is a branch stemming from the Hoist Scheduling Problem (HSP) where automatic hoist is used for moving electroplates ...
Effects of information technology alignment and information sharing on supply chain operational performance
The paper aims to investigate the effects of information technology (IT) alignment and information sharing on operational performance in the context of supply chain. Based on the resource-based view, this study identifies IT alignment and information ...
Optimal spares and preventive maintenance frequencies for constrained industrial systems
The research investigates the influence of an effective maintenance system on the efficient performance of any industrial system. The core concept of the research explains that the simultaneous focus on the spares inventory subsystem as well as on the ...
Decisions on optimal adoption time for new technology
The rapid development of science and technology has brought a lot of convenience to the industry, and allowed companies to enhance their competitive advantages in the market. However, at some point in the growth stage, companies often reach a bottle ...
Efficiency evaluation for allocating community-based health services
When allocating community-based health services for a geographically defined region, health planners are often faced with the serious conflict for improved health service and a limited budget. This paper extends the cost-based P-median location-...
Risk evaluation of customer integration in new product development under uncertainty
This study mainly focuses on the risk evaluation of customer integration in new product development. Customer integration in product innovation projects has been widely recognized a best practice to enhance innovation success rate and reduces the ...
Multi-objective optimization of stochastic disassembly line balancing with station paralleling
One of the major activities performed in product recovery is disassembly. Disassembly line is the most suitable setting to disassemble a product. Therefore, designing and balancing efficient disassembly systems are important to optimize the product ...
A hybrid algorithm for the cyclic hoist scheduling problem with two transportation resources
In automated electroplating lines, computer-controlled hoists are used to transfer parts from a processing resource to another one. Products are mounted into carriers and immersed sequentially in a series of tanks following a given sequence. The aim of ...
Continuous-discrete simulation-based decision making framework for solid waste management and recycling programs
Solid waste produced as a by-product of our daily activities poses a major threat to societies as populations grow and economic development advances. Consequently, the effective management of solid waste has become a matter of critical importance for ...
Stationary distributions and optimal control of queues with batch Markovian arrival process under multiple adaptive vacations
We consider an infinite-buffer single server queue with batch Markovian arrival process (BMAP) and exhaustive service discipline under multiple adaptive vacation policy. That is, the server serves until system emptied and after that server takes a ...
Parallel tabu search algorithm for the hybrid flow shop problem
The paper deals with the parallel variant of the scheduling algorithm dedicated to the hybrid flow shop problem. The problem derives from practice of automated manufacturing lines, e.g. for printed packages. The overall goal is to design a new algorithm ...
Efficient location and allocation strategies for undesirable facilities considering their fundamental properties
The phrase ''not in my backyard'' (NIMBY) refers to the well-known social phenomena in which residents oppose the construction or location of undesirable facilities near their homes. Examples of such facilities include electric transmission lines, ...
A hybrid ontology approach for integration of obsolescence information
Information sharing among distributed obsolescence management systems is a challenge because of the heterogeneity of data (data with different forms and representations). Indeed, this is the main hurdle that exists for current tools managing product ...
Right and left returns to scales in data envelopment analysis: Determining type and measuring value
This study identifies types and values of right and left returns to scales (RTSs) of efficient decision making units (DMUs) in data envelopment analysis (DEA). In this research, we first introduce a new approach to estimate types of right and left ...
Manufacturing production plan optimization in three-stage supply chains under Bass model market effects
The Bass model is a very successful parametric approach to forecast the diffusion process of new products. In recent years, applications of the Bass model have been extended to other operational research fields such as managing customer demands, ...
Optimizing green production strategies: An integrated approach
Selection of green production strategy is a critical but difficult task due to the fact that it affects not only green benefits, but also production economy. The problem is essentially multi-objective and involves dynamic and uncertain conditions. This ...
