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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,706 Views
21 Pages

Effect of Energy and Failure Rate in a Multi-Item Smart Production System

  • Mitali Sarkar,
  • Biswajit Sarkar and
  • Muhammad Waqas Iqbal

30 October 2018

To form a smart production system, the effect of energy and machines’ failure rate plays an important role. The main issue is to make a smart production system for complex products that the system may produce several defective items during a lo...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,623 Views
20 Pages

An Imperfect Production Model for Breakable Multi-Item with Dynamic Demand and Learning Effect on Rework over Random Planning Horizon

  • Amalesh Kumar Manna,
  • Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón,
  • Barun Das,
  • Ali Akbar Shaikh,
  • Armando Céspedes-Mota and
  • Gerardo Treviño-Garza

In recent times, in the literature of inventory management there exists a notorious interest in production-inventory models focused on imperfect production processes with a deterministic time horizon. Nevertheless, it is well-known that there is a hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,701 Views
18 Pages

11 September 2020

The present study explores the collective influence of component commonality, adjustable-rate, postponement, and rework on the multi-item manufacturing decision. In contemporary markets, customer demand trends point to fast-response, high-quality, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,408 Views
19 Pages

25 July 2019

Sustainable efficient energy is the key factor of any sustainable manufacturing system. This study addresses a multi-item sustainable economic energy efficient reliable manufacturing quantity (MSEEERMQ) model. The manufacturing system produces defect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,482 Views
29 Pages

25 September 2024

Customized production has greatly diversified product categories, which has altered product life cycles and added complexity to business management. This paper introduces a matrix-clustering technique that integrates k-means clustering with the BCG M...

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  • Open Access
956 Views
28 Pages

This paper is dedicated to investigating a highly accurate numerical solution for a class of 2D nonlinear time-dependent partial integro-differential equations with multi-term fractional integral items. These integrals are weakly singular with respec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,986 Views
11 Pages

23 December 2016

Managing perishable food in a retail store is quite difficult because of the product’s short lifetime and deterioration. Many elements, such as price, shelf space allocation, and quality, which can affect the consumption rate, should be taken into ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,625 Views
25 Pages

15 November 2021

In the production system, the production of a perfect item is essential for existing competitive market situations. To produce a perfect finished product, the quality of a raw material is a crucial issue of a production system. This paper has examine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
7,852 Views
12 Pages

11 July 2017

It has been a challenging task to manage perishable food supply chains because of the perishable product’s short lifetime, the possible spoilage of the product due to its deterioration nature, and the retail demand uncertainty. All of these factors c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,012 Views
15 Pages

Lagrange Relaxation for the Capacitated Multi-Item Lot-Sizing Problem

  • Zhen Gao,
  • Danning Li,
  • Danni Wang and
  • Zengcai Yu

25 July 2024

The capacitated multi-item lot-sizing problem, referred to as the CLSP, is to determine the lot sizes of products in each period in a given planning horizon of finite periods, meeting the product demands and resource limits in each period, and to min...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,122 Views
17 Pages

A Tabu List-Based Algorithm for Capacitated Multilevel Lot-Sizing with Alternate Bills of Materials and Co-Production Environments

  • Alfonso R. Romero-Conrado,
  • Jairo R. Coronado-Hernandez,
  • Gregorio Rius-Sorolla and
  • José P. García-Sabater

8 April 2019

The definition of lot sizes represents one of the most important decisions in production planning. Lot-sizing turns into an increasingly complex set of decisions that requires efficient solution approaches, in response to the time-consuming exact met...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,086 Views
17 Pages

12 February 2022

Increasing productivity and efficiency in factories with make-to-order (MTO) production systems have attracted growing interest of academia and industry. In MTO companies, efficient order release and schedule are essential for succeeding in today&rsq...

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  • Open Access
1,378 Views
19 Pages

Project Portfolio Planning Taking into Account the Effect of Loss of Competences of Project Team Members

  • Grzegorz Bocewicz,
  • Eryk Szwarc,
  • Amila Thibbotuwawa and
  • Zbigniew Banaszak

15 June 2023

This paper deals with a declarative model of the performance of employees conducting variably repetitive tasks based on the assumption of aging competences. An analytical model is used to consider refreshing the competences of the team’s multi-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,336 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2020

This study explores the multiproduct manufacturer-retailer coordination replenishing decision featuring outsourcing strategy and product quality assurance. Globalization has generated enormous opportunities. Consequently, transnational firms now face...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
1,943 Views
17 Pages

This study proposes an explanatory model of repurchase behaviour in web-stores introducing certain relationships not taken into consideration before. However, some established relationships are taken from the literature, such as that between web-stor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,678 Views
18 Pages

Applying Simheuristics to Minimize Overall Costs of an MRP Planned Production System

  • Wolfgang Seiringer,
  • Juliana Castaneda,
  • Klaus Altendorfer,
  • Javier Panadero and
  • Angel A. Juan

27 January 2022

Looking at current enterprise resource planning systems shows that material requirements planning (MRP) is one of the main production planning approaches implemented there. The MRP planning parameters lot size, safety stock, and planned lead time, ha...

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  • Open Access
1,314 Views
27 Pages

28 May 2025

This study addresses the multi-period, multi-item, single-stage capacitated lot sizing problem (CLSP) in a parallel machine environment with machine eligibility constraints under a make-to-order production policy. A mixed-integer linear programming (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,446 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2022

Multi-item and small-lot-size production modes lead to frequent setup, which involves significant setup times and has a substantial impact on productivity. In this study, we investigated the optimal flexible job-shop scheduling problem with a sequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,950 Views
11 Pages

The inventory carrying cost has been assumed uniform for all products in an organization or a warehouse. This assumption is not valid for a diversified range of items in an organization or warehouse. This paper tested this hypothesis of variations in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,866 Views
24 Pages

A Study on Two-Warehouse Inventory Systems with Integrated Multi-Purpose Production Unit and Partitioned Rental Warehouse

  • Viswanath Jagadeesan,
  • Thilagavathi Rajamanickam,
  • Vladimira Schindlerova,
  • Sreelakshmi Subbarayan and
  • Robert Cep

19 September 2023

A study of two warehouse inventory systems with a production unit is developed in this article with some constraints which are of practical applicability to optimize the total production cycle and its cost. A production unit evolves in three differen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,525 Views
24 Pages

Multi-Server Queuing Production Inventory System with Emergency Replenishment

  • Dhanya Shajin,
  • Achyutha Krishnamoorthy,
  • Agassi Z. Melikov and
  • Janos Sztrik

17 October 2022

We consider a multi-server production inventory system with an unlimited waiting line. Arrivals occur according to a non-homogeneous Poisson process and exponentially distributed service time. At the service completion epoch, one unit of an item in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,500 Views
12 Pages

Joint Determination of the Production Lot Size and Number of Shipments for EPQ Model with Rework

  • Singa Wang Chiu,
  • Dah-Chuan Gong,
  • Chun-Lin Chiu and
  • Chia-Ling Chung

1 August 2011

This paper is concerned with joint determination of the optimal lot size and optimal number of shipments for an economic production quantity (EPQ) model with the reworking of random defective items produced. The classic EPQ model assumes a continuous...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,200 Views
20 Pages

An Intelligent Self-Service Vending System for Smart Retail

  • Kun Xia,
  • Hongliang Fan,
  • Jianguang Huang,
  • Hanyu Wang,
  • Junxue Ren,
  • Qin Jian and
  • Dafang Wei

20 May 2021

The traditional weighing and selling process of non-barcode items requires manual service, which not only consumes manpower and material resources but is also more prone to errors or omissions of data. This paper proposes an intelligent self-service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
800 Views
23 Pages

16 July 2025

This paper presents a digital twin-driven multi-objective optimization approach for enhancing the performance and productivity of a multi-product manufacturing system under complex operational challenges. More specifically, the concept of digital twi...

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  • Open Access
4,072 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2019

We approach scalability and cold start problems of collaborative recommendation in this paper. An intelligent hybrid filtering framework that maximizes feature engineering and solves cold start problem for personalized recommendation based on deep le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,040 Views
16 Pages

Currently, most recommendation algorithms only use a single type of user behavior information to predict the target behavior. However, when browsing and selecting items, users generate other types of behavior information, which is important, but ofte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,196 Views
14 Pages

29 January 2020

A recommender system supports customers to find information, products, or services (such as music, books, movies, web sites, and digital contents), so it could help customers to make rapid routine decisions and save their time and money. However, mos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,213 Views
16 Pages

Risk Perception in the Post COVID-19 Pandemic Era: An Analysis of Tourist Accommodation and Travel Behavior in the New Normal Era

  • Noveri Maulana,
  • Rifelly Dewi Astuti,
  • Hariyadi B. Sukamdani and
  • Prijono Tjiptoherijanto

9 November 2022

After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, research on travel risk perception has been dominated by the study of health risks as a significant factor that influences tourists’ purchase behavior toward tourism and hospitality products, such as ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,654 Views
8 Pages

1 December 2011

This paper investigates optimal replenishment lot size and optimal number of shipments for economic production quantity (EPQ) model with rework process using an algebraic approach. The classic EPQ model assumes a perfect quality production for all it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,229 Views
28 Pages

13 December 2018

Incorporation of sustainable management for the rework of defective items brings long lasting benefits. In global business, there are situations when the products are procured from a global supplier. There are chances that the received lot may contai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,081 Views
22 Pages

Using Biased-Randomized Algorithms for the Multi-Period Product Display Problem with Dynamic Attractiveness

  • Mage Marmol,
  • Leandro do C. Martins,
  • Sara Hatami,
  • Angel A. Juan and
  • Vicenc Fernandez

1 February 2020

From brick-and-mortar stores to omnichannel retail, the efficient selection of products to be displayed on store tables, advertising brochures, or online front pages has become a critical issue. One possible goal is to maximize the overall ‘att...

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  • Open Access
3,036 Views
17 Pages

8 November 2024

Most studies of consumer preferences and expectations for home robots focus on either older adults or single-person households (SPHs). However, with the rise in voluntary SPHs among young adults and seniors, it is critical to compare both age and hou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
715 Views
21 Pages

An Enhanced Latent Factor Recommendation Approach for Sparse Datasets of E-Commerce Platforms

  • Wenbin Wu,
  • Zhanyong Qi,
  • Jiawei Tian,
  • Bixi Wang,
  • Minyi Tang and
  • Xuan Liu

13 May 2025

In certain newly established or niche e-commerce platforms, user–item interactions are often exceedingly sparse due to limited user bases or specialized product lines, posing significant obstacles to accurate personalized recommendations. To ad...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,265 Views
27 Pages

A Study on Design and Control of the Multi-Station Multi-Container Transportation System

  • Nguyen Huu Loc Khuu,
  • Van Anh Pham,
  • Tran Thanh Cong Vu,
  • Vu Thanh Binh Dao,
  • Thuy Duy Truong,
  • Ngoc Phi Nguyen and
  • Tuong Quan Vo

4 March 2022

In considering the problem of saving spaces during the transportation of items from one station to another, for example, in warehouses, factories, hospitals, etc., an automatic transportation system (ATS) that could take advantage of the above ceilin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,373 Views
17 Pages

25 September 2020

This paper considers a multi-period supplier selection and order allocation problem for a green supply chain system that consists of a single buyer and multiple heterogeneous suppliers. The buyer sells multiple products to end customers and periodica...

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  • Open Access
2,184 Views
37 Pages

This model extends the classical economic production quantity (EPQ) model to address the complexities within a two-echelon supply chain system. The model integrates the cost of raw materials necessary for production and takes into account the presenc...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,955 Views
25 Pages

Which Influencers Can Maximize PCR of E-Commerce?

  • Hayoung Oh,
  • Jiyoon Lee,
  • Joo-Sik Lee,
  • Sung-Min Kim,
  • Sechang Lim and
  • Dongha Jung

The Web has provided an increasing proportion of use as a medium for e-commerce in addition to various recommender systems. It can be used for analyzing recommendation system-based feedback (e.g., a form in which a user inputs their preferences for v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
5,860 Views
18 Pages

Imperfect Multi-Stage Lean Manufacturing System with Rework under Fuzzy Demand

  • Muhammad Tayyab,
  • Biswajit Sarkar and
  • Bernardo Nugroho Yahya

24 December 2018

Market conditions fluctuate abruptly in today’s competitive environment and leads to imprecise demand information. In particular, market demand data for freshly launched products is highly uncertain. Further, most of the products are generally...

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  • Open Access
2,052 Views
38 Pages

3 May 2025

Common practice in agile delivery planning is based on user requirements-related artifacts. However, an aspect of business process alignment to software product functions comes into focus in the phase of inception of enterprise-aware disciplined agil...

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  • Open Access
1,429 Views
28 Pages

13 December 2024

Online product reviews provide valuable insights on user experiences and product qualities. However, issues such as information overload and the limited utilization of review features persist, particularly in personalized rankings for popular items l...

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  • Open Access
446 Views
23 Pages

24 September 2025

This paper studies a multi-period strip cutting problem motivated by the paper industry. The focus is on multi-cutter slitting machines, which allow the simultaneous production of items with different lengths and provide higher cutting flexibility co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,871 Views
43 Pages

Combating the Counterfeit: A Review on Hardware-Based Anticounterfeiting Technologies

  • Suvadeep Choudhury,
  • Filippo Costa,
  • Giuliano Manara and
  • Simone Genovesi

22 September 2025

Counterfeiting poses a significant threat to global commerce, causing economic damage and jeopardizing consumer safety. This report addresses the critical need for advanced anti-counterfeiting measures. While often confused, authentication verifies a...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
26,284 Views
16 Pages

Carbon Footprint of Single-Use Plastic Items and Their Substitution

  • Luca Di Paolo,
  • Simona Abbate,
  • Eliseo Celani,
  • Davide Di Battista and
  • Giovanni Candeloro

10 December 2022

Single-use plastic is having a significant environmental impact and its reduction is a mandatory step to reduce plastic pollution worldwide. Indeed, the time that a plastic item can persist in the environment is very long and it is well known that it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,001 Views
17 Pages

14 September 2016

To gain more competitive advantages and attract more customers from the turbulent business environment, manufacturing firms today must offer a wide variety of products to marketplaces. The existence of component commonality in multi-product fabricati...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,974 Views
23 Pages

4 July 2022

Melt spinning machines must be set up according to the process parameters that result in the best end product quality. In this study, artificial intelligence algorithms were employed to create a system that detects abnormal processing parameters and...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,345 Views
25 Pages

27 September 2023

There are various forms of assembly data sources for wind turbines, which contributes to the lack of a unified and standardized expression. Moreover, the reusability of historical assembly data is low, which leads to the poor reasoning ability of a n...

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  • Open Access
872 Views
26 Pages

The rapid growth of e-commerce has made it increasingly difficult for users to select appropriate products due to the overwhelming amount of available information. Although many platforms, such as Amazon and Rakuten, encourage users to leave reviews,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
26,291 Views
26 Pages

6 February 2016

This paper highlights the need for a more inclusive and sustainable development of social housing in rapidly developing countries of Asia, Latin America, and Africa. At the example of the Philippines, a multi-perspective development process for a bam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,576 Views
25 Pages

3 April 2019

This model investigates the variable production cost for a production house; under a two-echelon supply chain management where a single vendor and multi-retailers are involved. This production system goes through a long run system and generates an ou...

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  • Open Access
421 Views
18 Pages

10 October 2025

User preference mining uses rating data, item content or comments to learn additional knowledge to support the prediction task. For the use of rating data, the usual approach is to take rating matrix as data source, and collaborative filtering as the...

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