Scheduling of continuous and discontinuous material flows with intermediate storage restrictions |
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Institution: | 1. Laboratorio de Modelado Molecular y Bioinformática, Sección de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación y Departamento de Bioquímica, Escuela Superior de Medicina, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Plan de San Luis y Díaz Mirón, 11340 México, D.F., Mexico;2. Departamento de Ciencias Químicas, Campo 1, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. 1ro de Mayo s/n, Col. Santa María de las Torres, Cuautitlán Izcalli, 54740 Estado de México, Mexico;3. Departamento de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Cuajimalpa, Pedro Antonio de los Santos 84, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, 11850 México, D.F., Mexico;4. Programa de Ingeniería Molecular, Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas 152, Col. San Bartolo Atepehuacan, 07730 México, D.F., Mexico |
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Abstract: | This paper deals with scheduling batch (i.e., discontinuous), continuous, and semicontinuous production in process industries (e.g., chemical, pharmaceutical, or metal casting industries) where intermediate storage facilities and renewable resources (processing units and manpower) of limited capacity have to be observed. First, different storage configurations typical of process industries are discussed. Second, a basic scheduling problem covering the three above production modes is presented. Third, (exact and truncated) branch-and-bound methods for the basic scheduling problem and the special case of batch scheduling are proposed and subjected to an experimental performance analysis. The solution approach presented is flexible and in principle simple, and it can (approximately) solve relatively large problem instances with sufficient accuracy. |
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