7. Glossary

LCA (life cycle assessment)

Methodology used to assess the environmental impact of a product or service throughout its life cycle, from raw material extraction to end-of-life.

Total manufacturing time; Makespan

Time required to complete all operations to manufacture a given number of batches.

MILP (Mixed-Integer Linear Programming)

An optimization problem in which some variables are integer while others are continuous, and all relationships are linear.

Flowshop or multi-product workshop

A flowshop or multi-product workshop is a production workshop configuration in which a set of operations is processed in a predefined sequential order on several pieces of equipment. Each product follows the same path through the equipment,...