This paper is concerned with the problem of production planning in a flexible manufacturing system consisting of a single or parallel failure-prone machines producing a number of different products. The objective is to choose the rates of production of the various products over time in order to...

Companies can gain significant advantages from the integrated optimization of production, inventory, and routing in a supply chain. The production routing problem (PRP), which aims to jointly optimize production, inventory, and vehicle routing, is motivated in this fashion. In actuality, the...