This article addresses multi-stage assembly flow shop for the first time. We propose several industrial applications of this system in which the opening stage has m parallel machines and the following stages (e.g. assembly, transportation, painting, packaging, etc.) complete and prepare products...

Assembly plays an important role in any production system as it constitutes a significant portion of the lead time and cost of a product. Virtual computer-integrated manufacturing (VCIM) system is a modern production system being conceptually developed to extend the application of traditional...

Even though research in flow shop production scheduling has been carried out for many decades, there is still a gap between research and application — especially in manufacturing paradigms such as one-of- a-kind production (OKP) that intensely challenges real time adaptive production...