OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Fixturing-driven determination of multi-product assembly plans in the context of product variety and reconfiguration	36
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	23
Fluid models for customer service web chat systems with interactive automated service	20
A Benders decomposition approach for planning home blood donations	19
Improving access to emergency medical services using advanced air mobility vehicles	18
In the driver’s seat: the role of transformational leadership in safe and productive truck cargo transport	18
Smart scheduling of hanging workshop via digital twin and deep reinforcement learning	17
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	16
Valuing labor flexibility in cross-training using a real options approach	16
Storage prioritization by redistributing wafer lot transfers to enhance real-world fab throughput	16
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	15
Dynamic product planning for online service platform coordinating with service agents and operations resource providers: a three-level optimization approach	14
Correction to: Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	13
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	13
Potentials of using real-time data to increase the update frequency of production planning and control strategies in MTO: a discrete event simulation study	13
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel robotic assembly lines considering energy consumption	12
Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the integrated patient-to-room and nurse-to-patient assignment problem	12
Multi-objective restarted simulated annealing algorithm for assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots considering ergonomics risks	10
Mathematical models for mobile network member’s coordination through coverage development-based contract	10
Three-stage service network design in rail-road networks with demand and capacity uncertainty	10
A restless bandit approach for capacitated condition based maintenance scheduling	10
Queueing network models for the analysis and optimisation of material handling systems: a systematic literature review	9
Puzzle-based movable rack system with diagonal movements and class-based storage policy	9
Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	9
A dynamic flexible job shop scheduling method based on collaborative agent reinforcement learning	9

The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	9
Leveraging digital twin to enhance humanitarian logistics operations	8
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model assembly line considering preventive maintenance scenarios: mathematical model and a migrating birds optimization algorithm	8
A first optimization approach to parameterize demand-driven MRP in the presence of multiple products and finite capacity	8
Efficient heuristics to minimize the total tardiness of chemotherapy drug production and delivery	8
A reinforcement learning/ad-hoc planning and scheduling mechanism for flexible and sustainable manufacturing systems	8
Uses and challenges of digital twins-based augmented reality in operator training and data visualization in process manufacturing lines	8
Integrated planning approach for fleet sizing and fleet management of freight railcars	7
Machine as a smart service: a hybrid knowledge graph approach	7
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	7
30th international conference on flexible automation and intelligent manufacturing (FAIM2021) special issue: modern manufacturing systems management	7
Correction: Measuring the performance of medical waste recycling systems in China’s new frst-tier cities with a novel bounded adjusted measure model	7
Real-time rescheduling for smart shop floors: an integrated method	6
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	6
Dynamic optimal pricing considering advertising and improvement quality strategies over product life-cycle horizon	6
Clusters of floor locations-allocation of stores to cross-docking warehouse considering satisfaction and space using MOGWO and NSGA-II algorithms	6
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	6
An integrated scheduling method for AGVs in an automated container terminal considering battery swapping and battery degradation	6
Data-driven aggregate modeling of a semiconductor wafer fab to predict WIP levels and cycle time distributions	5
Correction: A memetic NSGA‑II for the multi‑objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real‑time energy tariffs	5
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	5
Correction to: Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	5
Integrated storage assignment for an E-grocery fulfilment centre: accounting for day-of-week demand patterns	5
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	5
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	5
Multi-resource constrained scheduling considering process plan flexibility and lot streaming for the CNC machining industry	5
Assessment of coal supply chain under carbon trade policy by extended exergy accounting method	4
Lean and Industry 4.0 mitigating common losses in Engineer-to-Order theory and practice: an exploratory study	4
Designing a computer-vision-based artifact for automated quality control: a case study in the food industry	4
Balancing picking and outbound loading efficiency in an SBS/RS through a digital twin	4
Constraint programming models for parallel robotic assembly line balancing problems considering energy-efficiency	4
On a bi-objective distributed permutation flow shop problem with batch processing machines	4
Berth planning and real-time disruption recovery: a simulation study for a tidal port	3
To share or not to share? Remanufacturing design responsibility in an authorized remanufactured supply chain	3
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	3
A review of current trends and future directions in reverse logistics research	3
Formulations and exact solution approaches for a coupled bin-packing and lot-sizing problem with sequence-dependent setups	3
Material flow control in make-to-stock production systems: an assessment of order generation, order release and production authorization by simulation	3
Multi-period integrated production and delivery scheduling to enhance online orders fulfillment considering due dates	3
Service-oriented multi-stakeholder collaborative network optimization for EoL batteries recycling	3
A material handling system modeling framework: a data-driven approach for the generation of discrete-event simulation models	3
Optimizing production levels in maritime inventory routing with load-dependent speed optimization	2
A machine learning framework for explainable knowledge mining and production, maintenance, and quality control optimization in flexible circular manufacturing systems	2
Integrated maintenance and production scheduling for unrelated parallel machines with setup times	2
Day-ahead demand response decision and charging planning for multiple battery swapping stations	2
A stack-based retrieval method for the steel plate yard retrieval problem in shipbuilding	2
The impacts of stockout cost on a stochastic production-inventory system in minimizing total cost conditional value-at-risk	2
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	2
AI for in-line vehicle sequence controlling: development and evaluation of an adaptive machine learning artifact to predict sequence deviations in a mixed-model production line	2
A prediction model of patient satisfaction: policy evaluation and sensitivity analysis	2

A deep Q network algorithm for a car resequencing problem in automobile factories	2
Realization-based robust assignments for a nurse-to-patient assignment problem in home health care services	2
Design and calibration of a DRL algorithm for solving the job shop scheduling problem under unexpected job arrivals	2
Cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms for distributed parallel jobs scheduling	2
Performance analysis of a drop-swap terminal to mitigate truck congestion at chemical sites	2
Berth and yard scheduling optimization for a port with diagonal yard layout	2
Cut the scrap? the impact of truck age on driver retention, driving safety, and driving productivity	2
Reimbursement policy considering patient revisits from online to offline in a public healthcare system	2
A performance model for mobile robot-based part feeding systems to supermarkets	2
Improved swarm-based metaheuristics for optimizing human–robot collaborative assembly lines with multi-type collaborative robots	2
A digital twin modeling method of production lines based on flexible manufacturing	1
Scheduling offshore cargo handling with operational dynamics including cost composites, downtime periods, and cargo attributes	1
Flexible master surgery scheduling: combining optimization and simulation in a rolling horizon approach	1
Digitalization trends and industry 4.0: ensuring knowledge workers’ sustainable productivity and innovative capability	1
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	1
A memetic NSGA-II for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real-time energy tariffs	1
Determining the pricing strategy for different preference structures for the earth observation satellite scheduling problem through simulation and VIKOR	1
Measuring the performance of medical waste recycling systems in China’s new first-tier cities with a novel bounded adjusted measure model	1
A simulation–optimization approach for defining long-term staffing levels at healthcare facilities	1
Algorithms for minimization of total flow time to achieve resilience in a flow shop environment	1
No-wait lines optimisation: a procedure based on scheduling enhanced by digital twin	1
A digital twin-driven flexible scheduling method in a human–machine collaborative workshop based on hierarchical reinforcement learning	1
Simulation of worker collaboration in production cell based on hybrid model under fluctuating environment	1
Optimal product service system configuration considering pairing utility and uncertain customer behavior	1
Sparse flexible design: a machine learning approach	1
Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	1
A simulation-based digital twin for data-driven maintenance scheduling of risk-prone production lines via actor critics	1
Efficiency in radiology departments: a two-stage analysis	1
Train maintenance personnel shift scheduling: case study	1
Decision modeling of the challenges to human–robot collaboration in industrial environment: a real world example of an emerging economy	1
Modelling forgetting due to intermittent production in mixed-model line scheduling	1
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	1
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	1
Design of empty container depot layouts using data and analytics	1
The shunting scheduling of EMU first-level maintenance in a stub-end depot	1
A real options approach to value manufacturing flexibilities with regime-switching product demand	1
Smart factory concepts and their fitness to the plastics processing industry: a critical review	1
Overflow in systems with two servers: the negative consequences	1
Human-Robot collaboration in the next generation manufacturing and logistics system	1
Multi-objective-based differential evolution for balancing production cost, diversity and aggregated performance attributes in product family design	1
Managing premature idleness in high-variety manufacturing	1
A genetic algorithm for seafood processing with flexible flow shops and sequence-dependent setups	1