Research agenda on the formation and scheduling of SERU production system

As a new production model, SERU production has been widely adopted by electronic companies such as Canon and Sony and has achieved good results due to its advantages of quick response, good flexibility and high efficiency. Also, SERU production has received extensive attention by academic. The operational management of SERU production system includes two key decision-making processes, i.e., SERU formation and SERU scheduling. Both of them are NP-hard problems. For the simplicity, most of the researches are to decide SERU formation or SERU scheduling. However, the only one decision of SERU formation or SERU scheduling cannot obtain the global optimal solution. To obtain the global optimal solution, joint decision on SERU formation and SERU scheduling are considered. This paper reviews the researches on SERU formation and SERU scheduling from three aspects: the separate decisions on SERU formation and SERU scheduling, the joint decision on SERU formation and SERU scheduling of pure SERU production system, the joint decision on SERU formation and SERU scheduling of hybrid SERU production system. Finally, future researches on the SERU formation and SERU scheduling are classified and provided. © 2021, Editorial Board of Journal of Systems Engineering Society of China. All right reserved.