In-line defect inspection is employed to monitor tool health via sampling an in-line processing lot every fixed period, and avoid suffering large quality loss when the production tools are abnormal. However, defect inspection is a time-consuming process including lot movement, defect scan, and...

This study aims to form the basis for constructing a framework for evaluating alternative portfolios of R&D projects. This study provides an extensive literature review on portfolio selection. Most of the existing studies deal with the portfolio selection problem by evaluating individual...

Research & development (R&D) performance has been a competitive advantage for high-tech industries. This paper presents an empirical study in which we used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to evaluate the R&D performance of 31 computers and peripherals firms located at Hsinchu Science-based...

The bottlenecks of supply chains are shifting as individual companies are adopting smart production and reducing their inventories. Since the after-market orders mainly depend on repair and maintenance, addressing demand fluctuation is critical to reduce the risks of oversupply and shortage for...

Overall energy efficiency is crucial for green production and carbon dioxide emission, especially for energy-intensive industries such as steel making. To deal with unrelated parallel machine scheduling for steelmaking-continuous casting that is the bottleneck and energy-intensive process, this...