Reference:
B. De Schutter,
"Designing optimal timing and sequencing strategies for a continuous
steel foundry," Proceedings of the European Control Conference
1999 (ECC'99), Karlsruhe, Germany, 5 pp., Aug.-Sept. 1999. Paper
160/BP-2.6.
Abstract:
In this paper we consider a typical case study of a continuous steel
making process. More specifically, we consider the part of a steel
plant consisting of the furnace, the secondary steel making units and
the continuous caster. First we write down a model for the evolution
of the system. Then we develop some techniques to design (sub)optimal
timing and sequencing schemes for this system. The methods we use
include a mixture of linear programming, genetic algorithms, tabu
search and heuristics.