Title :
Charging Plan Model and Scheduling Algorithms for Walking Beam Furnaces
Author :
Zhao, Jun ; Wang, Wei
Author_Institution :
Res. Center of Inf. & Control, Dalian Univ. of Technol.
Abstract :
Logistic procedure of walking beam furnace in steel production is analyzed and earliness/tardiness scheduling problem with multiple resources and identical parallel machines is modeled according to the closed relationship between furnaces and mill. A hybrid algorithm combined evolutionary computing with heuristic approach is proposed for solving this model. A simulation result with real production data shows that the hybrid algorithm is better than human-machine or heuristic approach
Keywords :
beams (structures); evolutionary computation; furnaces; heuristic programming; logistics; production control; steel industry; charging plan model; earliness/tardiness scheduling; evolutionary computing; heuristic approach; identical parallel machines; production planning; scheduling algorithms; steel production; walking beam furnaces; Furnaces; Legged locomotion; Logistics; Milling machines; Parallel machines; Processor scheduling; Production; Scheduling algorithm; Steel; Structural beams; evolutionary algorithm; heuristic approach; production planning; walking beam furnace;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Automation, 2006. WCICA 2006. The Sixth World Congress on
Conference_Location :
Dalian
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0332-4
DOI :
10.1109/WCICA.2006.1714527
