Developing software for generating pouring schedules for steel foundries

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 219-234

  Van Voorhis, Tim ^a   Peters, Frank ^a   Johnson, David ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Harrison Steel Castings Co   (United States)

Author keywords

Branch and bound; Foundry; Integer programming; Production systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; STEEL FOUNDRY PRACTICE;

BRANCH-AND-BOUND METHOD; WORK-IN PROCESS (WIP);

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0035309163     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(01)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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