Production planning under uncertainty in textile manufacturing

Production planning under uncertainty in textile manufacturing

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Article ID: iaor2009913
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 59
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 510
End Page Number: 520
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
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Keywords: planning, manufacturing industries, programming: probabilistic, education in OR, practice
Abstract:

Textile manufacturing consists of yarn production, fabric formation, and finishing and dyeing stages. The subject of this paper is the yarn production planning problem, although the approach is directly applicable to the fabric production planning problem due to similarities in the respective models. Our experience at an international textile manufacturer indicates that demand uncertainty is a major challenge in developing yarn production plans. We develop a stochastic programming model that explicitly includes uncertainty in the form of discrete demand scenarios. This results in a large-scale mixed integer model that is difficult to solve with off-the-shelf commercial solvers. We develop a two-step preprocessing algorithm.

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