With increasing competition in the business world and the emergence and development of new technologies, many companies have turned to integrated production and distribution for timely production and delivery at the lowest cost of production and distribution and with the least delay in delivery. By increasing human population and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions and industrial waste, in...

Integrated energy systems (IESs) have attracted wide attention as effective frameworks to develop efficient use of resources. Proactive preparedness is a sensible approach for integrated distribution networks (IDNs) propitiously cope with high-impact rare (HR) events. In this paper, resilient-constrained two-stage expansion planning methodology proposed the aim simultaneously optimal IDNs and r...

This paper aims at closing the gap between early phases (e.g. design) and later phases (e.g. procurement or production) of the Product Development Process (PDP) by proposing a Virtual Product Model (VPM) as a collection of individual components (VPMCs) without the need for a static structure. Based on an analysis of the requirements on product development in the automotive industry, the main pr...

Secondary manufacturers in the forest products industry face a complex production planning process. Linear programming (LP)-based applications have addressed this production planning issue. However, most models have been developed for a specific plant configuration and cannot readily be applied to others. A relational database approach was used to create an integrated linear programming-based d...

Distribution utilities aim to operate and plan their network in a secure economical way. The prime focus of this work is assist by developing new integrated approach which considers the impacts system reliability distribution planning (DSP). This merges different problems together solves them two-stage process, as follows: 1. cable routing optimal location number switching devices (circuit brea...

For the practical use of supply chain management powerful planning tools are needed to support production and logistics decisions at various planning levels. In our paper, we focus on medium-term supply network planning. As a real application, the production of a chemical additive in a multi-site production and distribution network is considered. Supply network planning is an exceedingly comple...