Production Line Optimization and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

The topic of Production Line Optimization and Sustainability is currently highly relevant and deserving of attention. At present, considering the clearly noticeable climate changes and the recent geopolitical and social situation, production has been evolving in a more green and sustainable direction. This requires optimization towards sustainability, which implies the harmonization of various social, environmental, and economic aspects. This enforces a completely perspective, incorporating multiple, often conflicting, aims, and presents multiple challenges. Simple indices focused on maximizing benefits or reducing costs are no longer sufficient for production line optimization, and are being superseded by multi-factor methods and approaches.

Although some considerable research has already been done on the topic of production line optimization and sustainability, the state-of-the-art review in the scope of the topic shows that there is still much to explore, including various quantitative and qualitative methods in deciding on the trade-offs between profitability and sustainability, comparison of production line optimization approaches, efficiency measurements, incorporation of modern research tools such as approaches based on fuzzy set theory, or temporal data evaluation and aggregation. Moreover, the dynamic growth of the methods from the multi-criteria decision making domain creates additional opportunities to empower production line optimization with research tools such as sensitivity analysis, robustness analysis, preference modelling, and decision variants comparison.

This Special Issue will focus on exploring decision support methods and frameworks for production line optimization and sustainability. We invite contributions focused on assessment theories and practical indices and frameworks for production line optimization and evaluation. Approaches utilizing multi-criteria decision analysis methods are especially welcome.

Prof. Artur Karczmarczyk
Dr. Jarosław Wątróbski
Guest Editors

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• production line optimization
• sustainability
• decision support systems
• decision support methods
• production line optimization evaluation