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Original Research
Published 7 October 2026
Designing a total quality management 4.0 framework for service organizations: a plan-do-study-act based approach
Salma Elhag · Renad Alshamrani · Taghreed Alahmadi · Marwah Aljohani · Shuroq Alattas
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1895625
Specialty Grand Challenge
Published 29 September 2026
Artificial intelligence algorithms for complex industrial optimization
Wenqiang Zhang · Mitsuo Gen
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1949399
Original Research
Published 25 September 2026
Multi-resource operating room scheduling: a three-stage heuristic for efficiency and patient safety
Won-Chol Kim · So-Yong Kim · Gyong-Sim Ri · Hyon-U. Kong · Myong-Chol Chae · Un-Sung Pak
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1901669
Review
Published 25 August 2026
Human factors engineering in intelligent medical devices: paradigm evolution, core issues and frontier prospects
Huiling Hu · Ran LI · Yong Yin · Yixi Liu · Xue Wang
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1854270
Original Research
Published 24 August 2026
Algorithmic management from the perspective of managers: investigating the influence of system, organizational, and task characteristics on managers supported by intelligent systems
Florens Burgert · Susanne Mütze-Niewöhner · Verena Nitsch
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1823739
Perspective
Published 20 August 2026
The human centricity illusion
Peter Thorvald
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1907420
Original Research
Published 22 July 2026
Ergonomic assessment of fixed-height wooden laboratory stools and their association with student well-being: a cross-sectional study from Ghana
Michael Afari Baidoo · Ansir Ahmed Omar Saansong · Emmanuel Akwasi Ahenfo · Anthony Babategremine Yuoni · Nana Borsah Ackah
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1781205
Perspective
Published 24 June 2026
Energy and environmental engineering for sustainable industrial systems
Muhammad Sultan
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1779021
Original Research
Published 17 March 2026
The effect of facility layout changes and 5S implementation on reworks using MCDM: a lean implementation case study
Tlotlo K. Ramasu · Mukondeleli G. Kanakana-Katumba · Tshifhiwa Nenzhelele · Khumbulani Mpofu
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1670308
Editorial
Published 19 February 2026
Editorial: Learning-driven optimization for solving scheduling and logistics
Shi Cheng · Mitsuo Gen · Jie Gao
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1803536
Original Research
Published 18 February 2026
A hybrid neural network integrating attention mechanism for time series and non-time series multi-factor electric vehicle energy consumption prediction
Wenqiang Zhang · Ruisheng Chai · Mingzhe Li · Yashuang Mu · Peng Li · Mitsuo Gen
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2026.1769776
Original Research
Published 14 November 2025
Efficiently solving open capacitated location-routing problems through a discrete fireworks algorithm
Huizhen Zhang · Xun Zhou · David Rios Insua
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1686126
Industrial Engineering
Published 25 August 2025
Hybrid heuristic approach for generalized police officer patrolling problem
Fumito Kudo · Hiroaki Tohyama · Masaki Tomisawa
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1620422
Industrial Engineering
Published 31 July 2025
Multi-agent reinforcement learning for flexible shop scheduling problem: a survey
Weitao Xu · Jinghan Gu · Wenqiang Zhang · Mitsuo Gen · Hayato Ohwada
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1611512
Industrial Engineering
Published 5 June 2025
Cognitive ergonomics: Triangulation of physiological, subjective, and performance-based mental workload assessments
Emmie Fogelberg · Huizhong Cao · Peter Thorvald
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1605975
Industrial Engineering
Published 5 March 2025
Hybrid genetic algorithm and Q-learning-based solution for the time-variant berth and quay crane allocation problem
Chengji Liang · Dong Tang · Rui Zhao · Yu Wang
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1523203
Industrial Engineering
Published 27 January 2025
Metaheuristics for multi-objective scheduling problems in industry 4.0 and 5.0: a state-of-the-arts survey
Wenqiang Zhang · Xuan Bao · Xinchang Hao · Mitsuo Gen
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2025.1540022
Industrial Engineering
Published 20 August 2024
Semantic-based systems engineering for digitalization of space mission design
Elaheh Maleki · Alberto Gonzalez Fernandez · Nils Fischer · Quirien Wijnands · Nikolena Christofi
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1426074
Industrial Engineering
Published 7 August 2024
Overlaps between industrial informatics and control, data acquisition and management in Big Science
Gabriele Manduchi
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1342734
Industrial Engineering
Published 26 July 2024
Diffusion of AI value-driven services in the German manufacturing industries—an empirical examination of value-driven service references classified by the business Model Canvas
Patrick Berger · Joerg von Garrel
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1407367
Industrial Engineering
Published 19 July 2024
Strategic implementation of ED&I: unveiling the multifaceted impact on innovation, governance, and ethical conduct in engineering organizations
Yagmur Atescan-Yuksek · John Patsavellas · Konstantinos Salonitis
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1426631
Industrial Engineering
Published 9 July 2024
A critical juncture: promoting responsible innovation in the self-driving automobile sector while improving human factors
Kayli Battel · David Pearl
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1409748
Industrial Engineering
Published 15 May 2024
Threshold-impeded stochastic production: how noise interacts with disruptive thresholds to affect the production output in fluctuating environments
Daniel Christopher Merten · Annick Lesne · Yilmaz Uygun · Marc-Thorsten Hütt
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1353531
Industrial Engineering
Published 28 February 2024
Enhancing multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with machine learning for scheduling problems: recent advances and survey
Wenqiang Zhang · Guanwei Xiao · Mitsuo Gen · Huili Geng · Xiaomeng Wang · Miaolei Deng · Guohui Zhang
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2024.1337174
Industrial Engineering
Published 23 November 2023
We need a theoretical framework for the modernization of industrial legacy systems
Paulo Garcia · Warisa Sritriratanarak
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2023.1266651
Industrial Engineering
Published 16 November 2023
Workforce planning in project-driven companies: a high-level guideline
G. J. L. Micheli · A. Martino · F. Porta · A. Cravello · M. Panaro · A. Calabrese
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2023.1267244
Industrial Engineering
Published 2 November 2023
The impact of Enabling Collaborative Situations in AR-assisted consignment tasks
Nathan Compan · Jérémy Matias · Matthieu Lutz · Géraldine Rix-Lièvre · Daniel Brissaud · Clément Belletier · Fabien Coutarel
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2023.1258241
Industrial Engineering
Published 21 July 2023
Conceptual application of digital twins to meet ESG targets in the mining industry
Rachel Cranford
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2023.1223989
Industrial Engineering
Published 2 February 2023
Grand challenges in industrial informatics
Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Frontiers in Industrial Engineering
doi 10.3389/fieng.2023.1100340