Article ID: | iaor19971869 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 69 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 323 |
End Page Number: | 349 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
Authors: | Liebling Th.M., Stauffer L. |
Keywords: | mineral industries |
This paper treats a production planning problem in an aluminum manufacturing plant characterized by milling equipment subject to wear and replacement, furnaces with limited capacities and precedence rules and timing implies by temperatures and alloy types. The authors describe a rule-driven mathematical model and present an efficient rolling horizon scheduling algorithm based on tabu search as well as computational results.