Short-Term scheduling of a polymer compounding plant

Castro, Pedro; Barbosa-Póvoa, Ana Paula; Matos, Henrique A.

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Castro, Pedro

Barbosa-Póvoa, Ana Paula

Matos, Henrique A.

Abstract(s)

This paper addresses the optimal short-term scheduling of a three parallel production line plymer compounding plant, whose equipments require cleaning between product changeovers. A very effective user-friendly software tool was developed, which consists of a general scheduling model coupled with capabilities of Microsoft Excel for data handling and analysis. The scheduling model is based on a Resource Task Network discrete time formulation and leads to Mixed Integer Linear Programming problems. As outputs the user can access the optimal schedules for a number of different objectives.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/1411

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Castro, P. ; Barbosa-Póvoa, A. P.; Matos, H. A. Short-Term scheduling of a polymer compounding plant. In: 12th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE 12, 2002, p. 649-654