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  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,295 Views
14 Pages

25 December 2021

Green scheduling is not only an effective way to achieve green manufacturing but also an effective way for modern manufacturing enterprises to achieve energy conservation and emission reduction. The double-flexible job shop scheduling problem (DFJSP)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
3,361 Views
30 Pages

14 September 2021

In this era of unprecedented economic and social prosperity, problems such as energy shortages and environmental pollution are gradually coming to the fore, which seriously restrict economic and social development. In order to solve these problems, g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,898 Views
16 Pages

Research on Green Reentrant Hybrid Flow Shop Scheduling Problem Based on Improved Moth-Flame Optimization Algorithm

  • Feng Xu,
  • Hongtao Tang,
  • Qining Xun,
  • Hongyi Lan,
  • Xia Liu,
  • Wenfang Xing,
  • Tianyi Zhu,
  • Lei Wang and
  • Shibao Pang

22 November 2022

To address the green reentrant hybrid flow shop-scheduling problem (GRHFSP), we performed lifecycle assessments for evaluating the comprehensive impact of resources and the environment. An optimization model was established to minimize the maximum co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,932 Views
17 Pages

3 March 2022

With the increasingly customized product requirements of customers, the manufactured products have the characteristics of multi-variety and small-batch production. A high-quality production scheduling scheme can reduce energy consumption, improve pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,752 Views
23 Pages

14 August 2023

Green and low carbon automated production has become a research hotspot. In this paper, the AGV transport resource constraint, machine layout and job setup time have been integrated into the background of a flexible job shop. From a whole life-cycle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,068 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2023

Green manufacturing has become a new production mode for the development and operation of modern and future manufacturing industries. The flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP), as one of the key core problems in the field of green manufacturing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,857 Views
19 Pages

14 November 2018

As a result of increasingly serious environmental pollution, it is vital to reduce carbon emissions to achieve green and sustainable development for manufacturing processes. Customer satisfaction, as an important factor affecting enterprise profits,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,432 Views
22 Pages

15 March 2024

Exploration of the green flexible job-shop scheduling problem is essential for enterprises aiming for sustainable practices, including energy conservation, emissions reduction, and enhanced economic and social benefits. While existing research has pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,747 Views
27 Pages

11 October 2024

This paper addresses the green permutation flow shop scheduling problem (GPFSP) with energy consumption consideration, aiming to minimize the maximum completion time and total energy consumption as optimization objectives, and proposes a new method t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,432 Views
26 Pages

12 April 2024

In response to the challenges of dynamic adaptability, real-time interactivity, and dynamic optimization posed by the application of existing deep reinforcement learning algorithms in solving complex scheduling problems, this study proposes a novel a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
836 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2025

A green scheduling problem is proposed in this work, where both constraints on intermediate storage capacity and job transportation requirements are simultaneously considered. An improved discrete pathfinder algorithm (IDPFA) with multi-neighborhood...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,614 Views
37 Pages

7 February 2025

This paper tackles the green permutation flow shop scheduling problem (GPFSP) with the goal of minimizing both the maximum completion time and energy consumption. It introduces a novel hybrid approach that combines end-to-end deep reinforcement learn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,904 Views
24 Pages

22 April 2024

To solve various reworking and repair problems caused by unqualified bearing product quality inspections, this paper introduces a green re-entrant scheduling optimization method for bearing production shops considering job reworking. By taking into a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,897 Views
17 Pages

18 April 2022

In the last 30 years, a flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been extensively explored. Production efficiency is a widely utilized objective. With the rise in environmental awareness, green objectives (e.g., energy consumption) have receiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,136 Views
25 Pages

30 October 2023

From the perspective of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability, the scheduling problem in a flexible workshop with the utilization of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) was investigated for material transportation. Addressing the dual-const...

  • Review
  • Open Access
907 Views
39 Pages

Energy-Efficient Scheduling in Dynamic Flexible Job Shops: A Review

  • Adilanmu Sitahong,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Yiping Yuan,
  • Areziguli Wubuli,
  • Peiyin Mo and
  • Yulong Chen

9 December 2025

In recent decades, the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) has been widely studied. In the context of green manufacturing, objectives related to energy consumption and sustainability have emerged as essential components of the contemporary pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,564 Views
22 Pages

11 March 2022

Green manufacturing, which takes environmental effect and production benefit into consideration, has attracted increasing concern with the target of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality proposed. As a critical process in the manufacturing system, sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
32 Pages

10 January 2026

As one of the major sources of global carbon emissions, the manufacturing industry urgently requires green transformation. The utilization of renewable energy in production workshop offers a promising route toward zero-carbon manufacturing. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,855 Views
26 Pages

31 March 2024

With the rapid development of economic globalization and green manufacturing, traditional flexible job shop scheduling has evolved into the low-carbon heterogeneous distributed flexible job shop scheduling problem (LHDFJSP). Additionally, modern smar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,043 Views
23 Pages

27 May 2024

As the focus on environmental sustainability sharpens, the significance of low-carbon manufacturing and energy conservation continues to rise. While traditional flexible job shop scheduling strategies are primarily concerned with minimizing completio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,772 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2024

The study of the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP) is of great importance in the context of green manufacturing. In this paper, with the optimization objectives of minimizing the maximum completion time and the total machine energy consumpt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,873 Views
25 Pages

9 December 2022

With the development of intelligent manufacturing, machine tools are considered the “mothership” of the equipment manufacturing industry, and the associated processing workshops are becoming more high-end, flexible, intelligent, and green...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,058 Views
25 Pages

16 April 2024

Inland navigation serves as a vital component of transportation, boasting benefits such as ample capacity and minimal energy consumption. However, it also poses challenges related to achieving navigation efficiency and environmental friendliness. Loc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,294 Views
31 Pages

24 November 2020

With the emergence of the concept of green manufacturing, more manufacturers have attached importance to energy consumption indicators. The process planning and shop scheduling procedures involved in manufacturing processes can both independently ach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,854 Views
22 Pages

14 December 2021

Considering green scheduling and sustainable manufacturing, the energy-efficient hybrid flow shop scheduling problem (EHFSP) with a variable speed constraint is investigated, and a novel multi-population artificial bee colony algorithm (MPABC) is dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,815 Views
30 Pages

18 August 2021

Global warming and climate change are threatening life on earth. These changes are due to human activities resulting in the emission of greenhouse gases. This is caused by intensive industrial activities and excessive fuel energy consumption. Recentl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,416 Views
25 Pages

25 June 2022

With the increasing influence of climate change, green development has become an important trend. Since manufacturing represents approximately one-half of total energy consumption, reducing the amount of energy consumed within this industry is impera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,806 Views
29 Pages

2 November 2024

The high-quality development of the manufacturing industry necessitates accelerating its transformation towards high-end, intelligent, and green development. Considering logistics resource constraints, the impact of dynamic disturbance events on prod...