Experts often have unequal authority levels in organizations. However, this has rarely been considered reasonably in solving problems in the manufacturing system. In addition, a fuzzy collaborative estimation method can be more flexible and effective if experts have unequal authority levels. We...

There is a localization wave in the semiconductor industry for pushing wafer foundries to transfer their production capacity to where chip designers are located. The main reasons for the localization of semiconductor supply chains include the US-China trade war, geopolitics, COVID-19, the...

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been applied to predict the cycle times of jobs in manufacturing accurately. However, the prediction mechanism of a DNN is complex and difficult to communicate. This limits its acceptability (or practicability) in real-world applications. An explainable...