Modeling and Optimization with Industrial Considerations and Risk Assessment of Sustainable Systems and Services

Dear Colleagues,

Usually, the stiff competition between companies has encouraged many of them to review their service strategies, especially in terms of production, logistics and maintenance, taking into account several operational constraints.  In fact, reducing several costs and maximizing the customer satisfaction represent the key to improving industry state success. As a result, company stakeholders are working hard to propose and establish new sustainable strategies for managing operations, delivering goods and services, and managing risks to ensure the sustainability and resilience of a company's operations.

Taking operational risks into account, we can anticipate and predict breakdowns and production interruptions, minimize maintenance and logistics costs, optimize inventory levels, and improve the quality of manufactured products. This holistic approach also increases supply chain flexibility and ensures business continuity in the face of unforeseen events such as natural disasters, strikes, or supply chain disruptions. Finally, by integrating risk management into the planning and coordination of maintenance, production logistics, and supply chains, we can aim to improve decision-making in the event of a crisis, reducing economic losses and/or maximizing profit in order to perfect the company's reputation. In short, integrated operations and risk management can help companies improve their operational performance, competitiveness, and resilience if necessary.

That said, few published works in the literature deal with the optimal decisions and risk assessment within sustainable systems and services. Therefore, to bridge this gap in the literature, the proposed thematic issue aims to contribute to the existing literature by investigating new improved sustainable strategies and optimal decisions of sustainable systems and services.

The present Special Issue will highlight issues and new challenges that the imminent use of a large number of sustainable systems and services will bring. This session will encourage dialogue between managers, researchers, and users on issues of modeling and optimization with industrial considerations and risk assessment of sustainable systems and services.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Logistic and production systems;
• Reliability, maintenance; and spare parts management;
• Medical equipment maintenance;
• Resources and budget allocation;
• Prognostics and health management;
• Supply chain management;
• Services;
• Sustainable systems;
• Artificial intelligence/machine learning applications;
• etc.

I/We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Zied Hajej
Dr. Sofiene Dellagi
Dr. Med Ali Kammoun
Guest Editors

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• reliability
• maintenance management
• supply chain management
• discrete event system
• risk assessment
• logistic
• production
• optimization methods