There has been significant progress in the area of short-term scheduling of batch processes,
including the solution of industrial-sized problems, in the last 20 years. The main goal of this …

Traditionally, the lean paradigm has been applied to discrete manufacturing of items that
can be easily put together and taken apart. The process industry, on the other hand …

This paper studies a challenging problem of dynamic scheduling in steelmaking-continuous
casting (SCC) production. The problem is to re-optimize the assignment, sequencing, and …

This paper addresses a new steelmaking-continuous casting (SCC) scheduling problem
from iron and steel production processing. We model the problem as a combination of two …

This paper focuses on the development of metaheuristic algorithms for the real-time traffic
management problem of scheduling and routing trains in complex and busy railway …

Steel-making and continuous casting (SCC) processes are considered the main bottlenecks
in the steel industry. We consider planning and scheduling problems in SCC processes and …

Realistic production systems usually encounter various of unexpected disruptions, which
may invalidate the original schedules, and thus rescheduling becomes essential. This paper …

One of the largest bottlenecks in iron and steel production is the steelmaking-continuous
casting (SCC) process, which consists of steel-making, refining and continuous casting. The …

Since there are some special constraints in a real foundry enterprise, including the limitation
of starting time in some casting operations and the transportation time between two adjacent …

This paper presents a scheduling solution for electrical load tracking of a steel plant. In the
scheduling problem the electricity consumption of the plant is pre-specified by an energy …