This paper presents the model, solution method, and system developed and implemented for hot rolling production scheduling. The project is part of a large-scale e€ort to upgrade production and operations management systems of major iron and steel companies in China. Hot rolling production involves sequence dependent setup costs. Traditionally the production is scheduled using a greedy serial me...

Frequent Switching of arc furnace in steel company causes a great effect on the insulation of arc furnace transformer winding which in turn may causes a shutdown of production for long periods of time. Therefore, it is necessary to study and analyze the causes of these outages and design an adequate protective device. In this paper the transient overvoltage resulted from vacuum circuit breaker ...

The project was conducted in a high quality steel wire manufacturing company with the production capacity of over 120,000 tones/annum. The wire drawn from the high speed wire drawing (KOCH) machine is fed as the raw material for BEKEART (zinc coating galvanization) furnace. The problem faced by the company is the variability in the amount of input to the furnace, which results from the breakdow...

We propose a mean-risk decision model for a steel company facing emission limits and trading with emission allowances. The model is calibrated using data of a real-life steel company and is subsequently solved for five different scenarios of demand and different levels of risk aversion. It is found that while the limits are never reached, permit trading influences the decision to a great extent...

1 Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, 81515-158 Isfahan, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics, Khansar Faculty of Computer and Mathematics, University of Isfahan, Isfahan 81746-73441, Iran 3 Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University PutraMalaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 4 Department of Mathematics, Islamic Azad University, Mobarakeh Branch, 8...

LEVEL: INTRODUCTORY A s disposables become increasingly important in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, more companies are replacing rigid stainless steel and glass components with f lexible, single-use plastics. Mixing tanks, filter assemblies, and tubing are some types of components that have successfully been replaced by disposable elements for cell-culture production of high-value compounds. ...

EAF plants normally consume coal and coke as reactants, alloying elements, or fuel. The price of these materials varies from € 0.20-0.35/kg. This is while nearly 10 million pieces of tires are annually discarded in Iran. The present study shows that scrap tires can be used as a substitute for coal and coke in EAF plants. Thirteen grades of steel including low, medium, and high carbon steels as ...

  Background: Nowadays job stress is one of the most important health problems that health and safety professionals are facing with. Much of previous studies have focused on interventions such as stress management and, they have ignored the role of psychosocial factors in occurrence of job stress. This study investigated the mediator role of supervisor support on the association between wo...