Integrated Scheduling of Continuous Casters and Hot Strip Mills A Block Planning Application for the Steel Industry /

• Main Author: Mattik, Imke (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2014.
• Series: Produktion und Logistik
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Economics.; Management science.; Business and Management.; Operations Management.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Economics, general.

Continuous casting and hot strip milling are two successive production steps in the steel industry. In her thesis Imke Mattik develops model formulations to integrate the scheduling of continuous casters and hot strip mills. Aim is to reduce the waiting times of the pre-products, called slabs, betwe...

Table of Contents:

• Production Planning Characteristics of the Steel Industry
• Industry-Specific Requirements for Quantitative Scheduling Optimization
• Block Planning Principle and Industry Applications.