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| Author: | Brown, G. G. |
| Title: | Optimizing Plant-Line Schedules and an Application at Hidden Valley Manufacturing Company |
| Journal: | Interfaces
2002 : MAY-JUN, VOL. 32:3, p. 1-15 |
| Index terms: | AGRICULTURE SCHEDULING INDUSTRIAL PLANT OPTIMIZATION |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | A plant line schedule specifies a plant's sustained batch operations over time with detail sufficient to manage all activities. Plantwide considerations include restrictions on how production centers can be formed from production lines, packaging lines, conveyers, and so forth; the cost an time of product-package item setups, changeovers, and shutdowns; honoring in-stock service levels, minimum inventory, and committed shipments; recognizing efficiency gains with longer batch runs; respecting crew constraints; and the costs of materials, labor, and carrying inventory. The paper developed a cost-minimizing optimization model, profits, that feature multiple independent time streams for various categories of events that mimic existing periodic reviews of operations. |
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