Campaign planning and scheduling for multiproduct batch operations with applications to the food-processing industry

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-269

  Rajaram, Kumar ^a   Karmarkar, Uday S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch reactor scheduling; Economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP); Heuristics; Process industries

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTOR SCHEDULING; CAMPAIGN PLANNING; PROCESS INDUSTRIES; SORBITOL;

COSTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; PLANNING; SCHEDULING;

FOOD PROCESSING;

EID: 25144493207     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1040.0045     Document Type: Article

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