The Design and Development of A Scheduling System for Steelmaking and Continuous Casting based on Component Technology

Software component has played an important role in modern software and system development. Based on the concept and technology of the software reuse, we have developed a scheduling system of steelmaking and continuous casting for the Iron and Steel Corporation of China. The reusable components, which include the making plan component, the evaluation component, the dynamic adjusting component and the Gantt simulation editor component, are abstracted from this system. These components may be reused to construct a new scheduling system for other steel plant. The abstracting strategies are presented in this paper. Moreover, the formalization description for the making plan component and the dynamic adjusting component are presented. The waste of both manpower and resource is avoided by causing repetition development in the same trade