Due to the progress of high technology, TFT-LCD (Thin Film Transistor – Liquid Crystal Display) has been widely put in use recently. The manufacturing technology of the TFT-LCD industry mainly consists of array, cell, module processes, in which there exists special characteristics such as different objectives of individual process’s scheduling, complexity of manufacturing processes, and multi-s...

Production planning and the development of manufacturing production scheduling are two important operational management tasks. The results of these tasks will strongly influence the development of corporate profits, as well as the efficiency of utilization of resources. Considering the production scheduling problems in production plans can effectively avoid conflicts between the specific implem...

It is well recognized that software tools for strategic underground mine planning are lacking, and that the demand for these tools will increase as deeper deposits amenable to underground mining continue to grow in value. While a number of optimization techniques have been developed for stope layout design and progress continues to be made in the area of production scheduling, both of these min...

Planning and scheduling attracts an unceasing attention of computer science community. However, despite of similar character of both tasks, in most current systems planning and scheduling problems are usually solved independently using different methods. Recent development of Constraint Programming brings a new breeze to these areas. It allows using the same techniques for modelling planning an...

The production of bakery goods is strictly time sensitive due to the complex biochemical processes during dough fermentation, which leads to special requirements for production planning and scheduling. Instead of mathematical methods scheduling is often completely based on the practical experience of the responsible employees in bakeries. This sometimes inconsiderate scheduling approach often l...