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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Fixturing-driven determination of multi-product assembly plans in the context of product variety and reconfiguration	43
An efficient metaheuristic algorithm for the organ transplant logistics network considering urban traffic and cold ischemia constraints	27
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	25
Fluid models for customer service web chat systems with interactive automated service	23
A Benders decomposition approach for planning home blood donations	21
Liner feeder service network design problem for joint operation: a case study from China	20
In the driver’s seat: the role of transformational leadership in safe and productive truck cargo transport	19
Improving access to emergency medical services using advanced air mobility vehicles	19
Valuing labor flexibility in cross-training using a real options approach	17
Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the integrated patient-to-room and nurse-to-patient assignment problem	17
Dynamic product planning for online service platform coordinating with service agents and operations resource providers: a three-level optimization approach	16
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel robotic assembly lines considering energy consumption	16
Storage prioritization by redistributing wafer lot transfers to enhance real-world fab throughput	14
Correction to: Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	14
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	13
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	13
Smart scheduling of hanging workshop via digital twin and deep reinforcement learning	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	12
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	12
Three-stage service network design in rail-road networks with demand and capacity uncertainty	11
Multi-objective restarted simulated annealing algorithm for assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots considering ergonomics risks	11
A restless bandit approach for capacitated condition based maintenance scheduling	11
A dynamic flexible job shop scheduling method based on collaborative agent reinforcement learning	10
Queueing network models for the analysis and optimisation of material handling systems: a systematic literature review	10
Puzzle-based movable rack system with diagonal movements and class-based storage policy	10

Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	10
Uses and challenges of digital twins-based augmented reality in operator training and data visualization in process manufacturing lines	10
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model assembly line considering preventive maintenance scenarios: mathematical model and a migrating birds optimization algorithm	9
Efficient heuristics to minimize the total tardiness of chemotherapy drug production and delivery	9
A first optimization approach to parameterize demand-driven MRP in the presence of multiple products and finite capacity	9
A reinforcement learning/ad-hoc planning and scheduling mechanism for flexible and sustainable manufacturing systems	9
Correction: Measuring the performance of medical waste recycling systems in China’s new frst-tier cities with a novel bounded adjusted measure model	8
Digital twin-based storage tank scheduling for unloading and transport operations at a liquid bulk terminal	8
30th international conference on flexible automation and intelligent manufacturing (FAIM2021) special issue: modern manufacturing systems management	8
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	7
Integrated planning approach for fleet sizing and fleet management of freight railcars	7
Leveraging digital twin to enhance humanitarian logistics operations	7
Machine as a smart service: a hybrid knowledge graph approach	7
Multi-resource constrained scheduling considering process plan flexibility and lot streaming for the CNC machining industry	6
Real-time rescheduling for smart shop floors: an integrated method	6
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	6
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	6
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	6
Clusters of floor locations-allocation of stores to cross-docking warehouse considering satisfaction and space using MOGWO and NSGA-II algorithms	6
Dynamic optimal pricing considering advertising and improvement quality strategies over product life-cycle horizon	5
Integrated storage assignment for an E-grocery fulfilment centre: accounting for day-of-week demand patterns	5
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	5
An integrated scheduling method for AGVs in an automated container terminal considering battery swapping and battery degradation	5
Correction: A memetic NSGA‑II for the multi‑objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real‑time energy tariffs	4
Balancing picking and outbound loading efficiency in an SBS/RS through a digital twin	4
Lean and Industry 4.0 mitigating common losses in Engineer-to-Order theory and practice: an exploratory study	4
Data-driven aggregate modeling of a semiconductor wafer fab to predict WIP levels and cycle time distributions	4
Assessment of coal supply chain under carbon trade policy by extended exergy accounting method	4
Correction to: Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	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
Formulations and exact solution approaches for a coupled bin-packing and lot-sizing problem with sequence-dependent setups	3
To share or not to share? Remanufacturing design responsibility in an authorized remanufactured supply chain	3
Joint optimization of production, maintenance, and distribution planning in a multi-site environment	3
Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	3
Design and calibration of a DRL algorithm for solving the job shop scheduling problem under unexpected job arrivals	3
Multi-period integrated production and delivery scheduling to enhance online orders fulfillment considering due dates	3
A review of current trends and future directions in reverse logistics research	3
Service-oriented multi-stakeholder collaborative network optimization for EoL batteries recycling	3
The impacts of stockout cost on a stochastic production-inventory system in minimizing total cost conditional value-at-risk	3
A material handling system modeling framework: a data-driven approach for the generation of discrete-event simulation models	3
Cooperative and non-cooperative algorithms for distributed parallel jobs scheduling	3
Co-opetition behaviors of capital-constrained retailers in a closed-loop supply chain with pricing and recycling decisions	3
Designing a computer-vision-based artifact for automated quality control: a case study in the food industry	3
Self-adaptive memetic algorithms for multi-objective single machine learning-effect scheduling problems with release times	3
Material flow control in make-to-stock production systems: an assessment of order generation, order release and production authorization by simulation	3
Improved swarm-based metaheuristics for optimizing human–robot collaborative assembly lines with multi-type collaborative robots	3
Using mathematical modeling to meet service levels in production planning in market foundries	3
Scheduling offshore cargo handling with operational dynamics including cost composites, downtime periods, and cargo attributes	2

Realization-based robust assignments for a nurse-to-patient assignment problem in home health care services	2
Performance analysis of a drop-swap terminal to mitigate truck congestion at chemical sites	2
A prediction model of patient satisfaction: policy evaluation and sensitivity analysis	2
Design of empty container depot layouts using data and analytics	2
A deep Q network algorithm for a car resequencing problem in automobile factories	2
A digital twin modeling method of production lines based on flexible manufacturing	2
Tiered prediction models for port vessel emissions inventories	2
Optimizing production levels in maritime inventory routing with load-dependent speed optimization	2
A stack-based retrieval method for the steel plate yard retrieval problem in shipbuilding	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
A genetic algorithm for seafood processing with flexible flow shops and sequence-dependent setups	2
A digital twin-driven flexible scheduling method in a human–machine collaborative workshop based on hierarchical reinforcement learning	2
Simulation of worker collaboration in production cell based on hybrid model under fluctuating environment	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
Reimbursement policy considering patient revisits from online to offline in a public healthcare system	2
No-wait lines optimisation: a procedure based on scheduling enhanced by digital twin	2
Modelling forgetting due to intermittent production in mixed-model line scheduling	2
A memetic NSGA-II for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real-time energy tariffs	1
A simulation-based digital twin for data-driven maintenance scheduling of risk-prone production lines via actor critics	1
Multi-objective-based differential evolution for balancing production cost, diversity and aggregated performance attributes in product family design	1
A simulation–optimization approach for defining long-term staffing levels at healthcare facilities	1
Sparse flexible design: a machine learning approach	1
Solving the picker routing problem in multi-block high-level storage systems using metaheuristics	1
Human-Robot collaboration in the next generation manufacturing and logistics system	1
Bundle generation for the vehicle routing problem with occasional drivers and time windows	1
Order and rack sequencing in a robotic mobile fulfillment system with multiple picking stations	1
Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	1
Research on the evolution law of supply chain disruption based on Complex Adaptive System	1
Dynamic crane scheduling for green automated warehousing: learning-based simulation-optimization approach	1
Train maintenance personnel shift scheduling: case study	1
Measuring the performance of medical waste recycling systems in China’s new first-tier cities with a novel bounded adjusted measure model	1
Traceable digital twin for accurate positioning of industrial robot arms in human–robot collaborative systems	1
Algorithms for minimization of total flow time to achieve resilience in a flow shop environment	1
Decision modeling of the challenges to human–robot collaboration in industrial environment: a real world example of an emerging economy	1
Digitalization trends and industry 4.0: ensuring knowledge workers’ sustainable productivity and innovative capability	1
A data-efficient active learning architecture for anomaly detection in industrial time series data	1
Greedy window stochastic optimization algorithm for reducing data center energy consumption	1
Integrated task sequence planning and assignment for human–robot collaborative assembly station	1
Efficiency in radiology departments: a two-stage analysis	1
Smart factory concepts and their fitness to the plastics processing industry: a critical review	1
The emission reduction cooperation in a supply chain with corporate social responsibility	1
A real options approach to value manufacturing flexibilities with regime-switching product demand	1
Managing premature idleness in high-variety manufacturing	1
The shunting scheduling of EMU first-level maintenance in a stub-end depot	1
Interpretable chip-quality classification with signal and feature selection in wire bonding	1
Overflow in systems with two servers: the negative consequences	1
Simulation-based approach to analyze modular intralogistic systems in the chemical industry	1
Determining the pricing strategy for different preference structures for the earth observation satellite scheduling problem through simulation and VIKOR	1