Article ID: | iaor20071947 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 104 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 260 |
End Page Number: | 270 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Teghem J., Bellabdaoui A. |
Keywords: | production, programming: integer |
The development of optimization models for planning and scheduling is one of the most useful tools for improving productivity of a large number of manufacturing companies. This paper presents a mixed-integer programming model for scheduling steelmaking–continuous casting production. We first review the recent works in continuous casting planning. We focus on a model inspired from an application of steelmaking–continuous casting by Arcelor Group in Liege, Belgium. The process scheduling is characterized by several constraints: job grouping, technological interdependence, no dead time inside the same group of jobs and dynamic processing time of jobs. We present a formulation with mixed-integer linear programming which can be solved using standard software packages. Finally, we treat a few examples to illustrate this application and we conclude this paper with some comments and directions for future extensions.