Scheduling is a major component for the efficient operation of the process industries.
Especially in the current competitive globalized market, scheduling is of vital importance to …

The competitive, profitable, and safe operation of chemical plants depends on tight and
effective coordination among the different decision making levels of the enterprise, including …

The integration of process operations and dynamic optimization leads to large scale
optimization problems whose monolithic solution is challenging. In this paper we propose a …

In this article, motivated by the need for efficient closed-loop implementation of the control
objectives set within the integrated planning, scheduling and control (iPSC) problem we …

Historically, process control, process scheduling, and process operational functions (such as
safety and maintenance) have been considered independently, in isolation, and/or in a …

The batch process plays an important role in industrial production. Among them, production
processes that have specific requirements for operational continuity in each processing …

Integrating control decisions into scheduling strategies has been shown to improve process
economics. Typical integrated formulations consist of mixed-integer optimization models that …

Enterprise-wide optimization seeks to improve the economic performance of process
systems by considering simultaneously decisions at different time scales, resulting in large …

Integrated scheduling and control (SC) seeks to unify the objectives of the various layers of
optimization in manufacturing. This work investigates combining scheduling and control …

Plant-wide scheduling optimization of multi-grade PET production is of great significance for
increasing the economic benefits and market competitiveness of PET plants. However …