Multi-week MILP scheduling for an ice cream processing facility

Multi-week MILP scheduling for an ice cream processing facility

This paper presents a multi-week mixed integer linear programming (MILP) scheduling model for an ice cream processing facility. The ice cream processing is a typical complex food manufacturing process and a simplified version of this processing has been adapted to investigate scheduling problems in the literature. Most of these models only considered the production scheduling for a week. In thi...

A MILP Scheduling Model for Multi-stage Batch Plants

Abstract In the current work, a new precedence-based mixed integer linear programming (MILP) scheduling framework, based on a continuous-time representation, is developed for the scheduling in multi-stage batch plants. Advantages and special features of the proposed scheduling model are highlighted through several instances of two base case studies. Results are analyzed and further criticized t...

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Bacterial Standards for Ice-Cream

Within the last two or three years, the manufacture and consumption of ice-cream in the city of Calcutta have enormously increased. Numerous small and large cafes and restaurants have sprung up, and most of them are preparing and supplying ice-cream to their customers, civil and military. The production of ice-cream by large scale manufacturing companies has gone up tenfold and more, and the ic...

An Milp Formulation for the Scheduling of Multiproduct Pipeline Systems

Pipelines provide an economic mode of fluid transportation for petroleum systems, specially when large amounts of these products have to be pumped for large distances. The system discussed in this paper is composed of a petroleum refinery, a multiproduct pipeline connected to several depots and the corresponding consumer markets that receive large amounts of gasoline, diesel, LPG and aviation f...