Article ID: | iaor20022285 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 14 |
Start Page Number: | 3085 |
End Page Number: | 3107 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2001 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Research |
Authors: | Dessouky Maged M., McGraw Kenneth E. |
Keywords: | chemical industry |
Production volume in the specialized agricultural chemical industry is typically too small to justify the capital expenditure required for continuous processsing. As such, there is a trend towards building chemical processing plants for this market segment that are batch plants. Scheduling of this type of chemical plant under just-in-time operations, where both earliness and lateness penalties are included, is crucial to the efficient operation of these plants. In this paper, a heuristic scheduling procedure is developed for the problem of minimizing the total weighted earliness and tardiness costs as well as the total set-up cost for the single-stage batch chemical manufacturing environment.