Thirty Years of Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling: A Bibliometric Study

Industry 4.0 introduced a new change in paradigms and technologies the industry. In shop schedule, it gains holistic viewpoint online demands, real-time reactive methodologies. Developments scheduling area are critical to success. First addressed by Brucker Schlie 1990, Flexible Job-Shop Scheduling Problem has been attracting researchers practitioners over last decades. This body of research may be helpful address industry high flexibility problems. article uses bibliometric approach study three decades on this problem. The main results identify most prolific areas, journals, institutions, countries, authors, co-citation networks that revealed influential as well their relevant works. A conceptual analysis based keywords burst occurrences helped latest evolution trends; allowing recognize alignments gaps within 4.0.