Castro, PedroBarbosa-Póvoa, Ana PaulaMatos, Henrique A.2012-01-252012-01-252002Castro, 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. 649-654http://hdl.handle.net/10400.9/1411This 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.engconference object