| Article ID: | iaor2005283 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 34 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 215 |
| End Page Number: | 225 |
| Publication Date: | May 2004 |
| Journal: | Interfaces |
| Authors: | Dawande Milind, Trumbo Mark, Lee Ho Soo, Kalagnanam Jayant, Reddy Chandra, Siegel Stuart |
| Keywords: | planning, production, scheduling |
Planners in the steel industry design a set of steel slabs to satisfy the order book subject to constraints on (1) achieving a total designed weight for each order using multiples of an order-specific production size range, (2) minimum and maximum sizes for each slab, and (3) feasible assignments of multiple orders to the same slab. We developed a heuristic solution based on matchings and bin packing that a large steel plant uses daily in mill operations.