Evans, Mark; Johnston, Richard E. - In: Journal of Applied Statistics 34 (2007) 4, pp. 383-397
In conjunction with TIMET at Waunarlwydd (Swansea, UK) a model has been developed that will optimise the scheduling of various blooms to their eight furnaces so as to minimise the time taken to roll these blooms into the finished mill products. This production scheduling model requires reliable...