In the global supply chain system it is required to integrate production scheduling and distribution planning, in order to be more efficient and to get more economics advantages. This paper presents seafood production planning and scheduling of a fishery manufacture company which produces simultaneously multi kind of seafood products from several classes of raw fish resources. The perishability...

Production scheduling in underground mines is still a manual process, and achieving a truly optimal result through manual scheduling is impossible due to the complexity of the scheduling problems. Among the underground mining methods, sub-level caving is a common mining method with a high production rate for hard rock mining. There are limited studies about long-term production scheduling...

This chapter addresses three main problems of the production planning area: Single Machine Scheduling (SMS), Parallel Machine Scheduling (PMS) and Flowshop Scheduling (FS). Many situations in production environments found in industries around the world can be modelled as one or a set of them (Baker 1974). It is easy to find dozens of problem variants in the literature due to different productio...

The paper addresses the problem of scheduling production orders (jobs). First an approach based on simulated annealing and Hopfield nets is described. Since performance was unsatisfactory for real-world applications, we changed problem representation and tuned the scheduling method, dropping features of the Hopfield net and retaining simulated annealing. Both computing time and solution quality...

Several production environments require simultaneous planing of sizing and scheduling of sequences of production lots. Integration of sequencing decisions in lotsizing and scheduling problems has received an increased attention from the research community due to its inherent applicability to real world problems. A two-dimensional classification framework is proposed to survey and classify the m...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how certain limitations of the current approaches to planning and scheduling of aircraft heavy maintenance can be addressed using a single integrated framework supported by unified data structures. Design/methodology/approach – The “unitary structuring technique”, originally developed within the context of manufacturing planning and control, is ...