This work responds to the gap in integrating Internet-of-Things Continuous Improvement processes, especially facilitate diagnosis and problem-solving activities regarding manufacturing workstations. An innovative approach, named Automatic Detailed Diagnosis (ADD), is proposed: a non-intrusive, easy-to-install use, low-cost flexible system based on industrial platforms devices. The ADD requireme...

We examine project scheduling with net-present-value objective and exponential activity durations, using a continuous-time Markov decision chain. Based on a judicious partitioning of the state space, we achieve a significant performance improvement compared to the existing algorithms.