OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fixturing-driven determination of multi-product assembly plans in the context of product variety and reconfiguration	30
Fluid models for customer service web chat systems with interactive automated service	22
A Benders decomposition approach for planning home blood donations	19
Elite solutions and Tabu assisted variable neighbourhood descent for rescheduling problems in the steelmaking-refining-continuous casting process	17
In the driver’s seat: the role of transformational leadership in safe and productive truck cargo transport	17
Improving access to emergency medical services using advanced air mobility vehicles	17
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model parallel robotic assembly lines considering energy consumption	16
Valuing labor flexibility in cross-training using a real options approach	15
Smart scheduling of hanging workshop via digital twin and deep reinforcement learning	15
Storage prioritization by redistributing wafer lot transfers to enhance real-world fab throughput	14
Machine-based identification system via optical character recognition	14
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
Dynamic product planning for online service platform coordinating with service agents and operations resource providers: a three-level optimization approach	13
Correction to: Robust multi-period capacity, location, and access of rural cardiovascular services under uncertainty	12
Flexible scheduling of diagnostic tests in automotive manufacturing	12
Multi-neighborhood simulated annealing for the integrated patient-to-room and nurse-to-patient assignment problem	11
Assigning orders and pods to picking stations in a multi-level robotic mobile fulfillment system	11
Mathematical models for mobile network member’s coordination through coverage development-based contract	10
A restless bandit approach for capacitated condition based maintenance scheduling	10
Multi-objective restarted simulated annealing algorithm for assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots considering ergonomics risks	10
Queueing network models for the analysis and optimisation of material handling systems: a systematic literature review	9
A first optimization approach to parameterize demand-driven MRP in the presence of multiple products and finite capacity	9
Three-stage service network design in rail-road networks with demand and capacity uncertainty	9
Balancing and sequencing of mixed-model assembly line considering preventive maintenance scenarios: mathematical model and a migrating birds optimization algorithm	9
The integrated orderline batching, batch scheduling, and picker routing problem with multiple pickers: the benefits of splitting customer orders	9

Balancing earliness and tardiness within workload control order release: an assessment by simulation	9
Puzzle-based movable rack system with diagonal movements and class-based storage policy	8
A dynamic flexible job shop scheduling method based on collaborative agent reinforcement learning	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	7
Machine as a smart service: a hybrid knowledge graph approach	7
Integrated planning approach for fleet sizing and fleet management of freight railcars	7
Leveraging digital twin to enhance humanitarian logistics operations	7
Uses and challenges of digital twins-based augmented reality in operator training and data visualization in process manufacturing lines	7
30th international conference on flexible automation and intelligent manufacturing (FAIM2021) special issue: modern manufacturing systems management	7
An integrated scheduling method for AGVs in an automated container terminal considering battery swapping and battery degradation	6
Choice-driven location-allocation model for healthcare facility location problem	6
Computationally efficient approximate dynamic programming for multi-site production capacity planning with uncertain demands	6
Integrated storage assignment for an E-grocery fulfilment centre: accounting for day-of-week demand patterns	6
Dynamic optimal pricing considering advertising and improvement quality strategies over product life-cycle horizon	6
Robust berth scheduling using machine learning for vessel arrival time prediction	6
Capacity planning in a decentralized autologous cell therapy manufacturing network for low-cost resilience	5
Multi-resource constrained scheduling considering process plan flexibility and lot streaming for the CNC machining industry	5
Correction to: Anticipating technical car sequencing rules in the master production scheduling of mixed-model assembly lines	5
Correction: A memetic NSGA‑II for the multi‑objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with real‑time energy tariffs	5
Real-time rescheduling for smart shop floors: an integrated method	5
Clusters of floor locations-allocation of stores to cross-docking warehouse considering satisfaction and space using MOGWO and NSGA-II algorithms	5
Robust container slot allocation with uncertain demand for liner shipping services	5
Data-driven aggregate modeling of a semiconductor wafer fab to predict WIP levels and cycle time distributions	5
Robotic stochastic assembly line balancing	5
On a bi-objective distributed permutation flow shop problem with batch processing machines	5