Production planning and scheduling in the glass container industry: A VNS approach

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2008

Authors

Bernardo Almada Lobo (Author) FEUP; Jose F Oliveira (Author) FEUP; Maria Antonia Carravilla (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal of Production Economics

Vol. 114 No. 1

Pages: 363-375

ISSN: 0925-5273

Publisher: Elsevier

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FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

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Authenticus ID: P-003-Y41

DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.02.052

Abstract (EN): Inspired by a case study, this paper reports a successful application of VNS to the production planning and scheduling problem that arises in the glass container industry. This is a multi-facility production system, where each facility has a set of furnaces where the glass paste is produced in order to meet the demand, being afterwards distributed to a set of parallel molding machines. Since the neighborhoods used are not nested, they are not ordered by increasing sizes, but by means of a new empirical measure to assess the distance between any two solutions. Neighborhood sizes decrease significantly through-out the search thus suggesting the use of a scheme in which efficiency is placed. over effectiveness in a first step, and the opposite in a second step. We test this variant as well as other two with a real-world problem instance from our case study.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2007.02.052

No. of pages: 13