Purpose – The objectives of this paper are to identify and rate the importance levels of the factors that may affect business continuity during partial renovation of office buildings while being occupied. The paper also proposes a checklist of measures to carry out in order to reduce the...

Purpose – Machine scheduling plays an important role in most manufacturing industries and has received a great amount of attention from operation researchers. Production scheduling is concerned with the allocation of resources and the sequencing of tasks to produce goods and services....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve a flexible job shop scheduling problem where alternate machines are available to process the same job. The study considers the Flexible Job Shop Problem (FJSP) having n jobs and more than three machines for scheduling. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – To propose and to evaluate a new genetic algorithm (GA) for solving the dynamic pickup and delivery problem with time windows (DPDPTW). Design/methodology/approach – First, a grouping genetic algorithm (GGA) for the (static) PDPTW is described. In order to solve the dynamic...

Purpose – Studies conducted on advanced planning and scheduling (APS) systems have found problems in the marginal or negative returns from APS systems when they are implemented in manufacturing planning and control processes. The purpose of this study is to examine what problems exist in the...

An examination of changing an inventory policy of a major manufacturing organisation and its impact on the cost structure of the organisation is presented. A classic cost confrontation between set‐up costs and inventory costs are examined in the study. The results reveal that the unique nature...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to show how an integrated system serves as an information support tool to assists maintenance managers to analyze data and evaluate alternatives in order to make better decisions that maximize efficiency in transit operations....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to work on an analytical approach to test sensitivity of a maintenance‐scheduling model. Any model without sensitivity analysis is a “paper work” without advancing for wider applications. Thus, the simulation of simultaneous scheduling of...

Presents a simulation model for studying the availability of an iron‐ore production plant interconnected logistically with a large Integrated Steel Manufacturing System (ISMS). The objective of the simulation experiment is to validate whether there exists adequate capability of the existing...