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Optimization of the retail steel distribution industry

The present work proposes new heuristics and algorithms for the 3D Cutting and Packing class of problems. Specifically the cutting stock problem and a real-world application from the retail steel distribution industry are addressed. The problem being addressed for the retail steel distribution industry is the retail steel cutting problem, which is how to cut steel in order to satisfy the custom...

Data Mining Applications in Steel Industry

The industrial plants, beyond subsisting, pursue to be leaders in increasingly competitive and dynamic markets. In this environment, quality management and technological innovation is less a choice than a must. Quality principles, such as those comprised in ISO 9000 standards, recommend companies to make their decisions with a based on facts approach; a policy much easily followed thanks to the...

Expert Systems in the Steel Making Industry

This paper presents three prototypical expert systems that were developed in different fields of the steel making industry. It is described which kind of knowledge has to be represented, what are the techniques required for intelligent reasoning, and why expert systems offer better solutions to the described problems than traditional programming approaches. From the given applications the main ...

Finishing Line Scheduling in the steel industry

A new solution for large-scale scheduling in the steelmaking industry, called Finishing Line Scheduling (FLS), is described. FLS in a major steel mill is a task to create production campaigns (specific production runs) for steel coils on four continuous processes for a one-month horizon. Two process flows are involved in FLS, and the balancing of the two process flows requires resolving conflic...