Abstract—Wafer-level test during burn-in (WLTBI) has recently emerged as a promising technique to reduce test and burn-in costs in semiconductor manufacturing. However, the testi...
Batching jobs in a manufacturing system is a very common policy in most industries. The main reasons for batching are avoidance of set ups and/or facilitation of material handling...
SiMPLE++ is an object-oriented simulation environment for modeling all types of manufacturing, logistics and service systems. AESOP’s SiMPLE++ is a fully object-oriented impleme...
Long-term service agreements (LTSA) for the maintenance of capital-intensive equipment such as gas turbines and aircraft engines are gaining wide acceptance. A typical LTSA contra...
We combine mixed integer linear programming (MILP) and constraint programming (CP) to solve an important class of planning and scheduling problems. Tasks are allocated to faciliti...