A two-phase heuristic for the production scheduling of heavy plates in steel industry

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 104-117

  Tang, Lixin ^a   Wang, Xianpeng ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Decision tree based heuristic; Heavy plate; Hot rolling scheduling; Reheating furnace scheduling; Scatter search

Indexed keywords

FURNACE CAPACITY; HEATING TIME; HEAVY PLATE; MANUAL SCHEDULING; PRODUCTION DATA; PRODUCTION SCHEDULING; REHEATING FURNACES; SCATTER SEARCH; SECOND PHASE; STEEL INDUSTRY;

DECISION TREES; FURNACES; HEATING FURNACES; HEURISTIC METHODS; HOT ROLLING MILLS; INDUSTRIAL FURNACES; INDUSTRIAL HEATING; IRON AND STEEL PLANTS; MARTENSITIC STAINLESS STEEL; METAL WORKING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING; STEELMAKING;

HOT ROLLING;

EID: 73249132545     PISSN: 10636536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2009.2014960     Document Type: Article

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