The Slab Design Problem in the Steel Industry

Milind Dawande, Jayant Kalagnanam, Ho Soo Lee, Chandra Reddy, Stuart Siegel and Mark Trumbo
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Milind Dawande: University of Texas at Dallas
Jayant Kalagnanam: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Ho Soo Lee: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Chandra Reddy: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Stuart Siegel: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Mark Trumbo: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

A chapter in Handbook of Production Scheduling, 2006, pp 243-264 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Planners in the steel industry must design a set of steel slabs to satisfy the order book subject to constraints on (1) achieving a total designed weight for each order using multiples of an order-specific production size range, (2) minimum and maximum sizes for each slab, and (3) feasible assignments of multiple orders to the same slab. We developed a heuristic solution based on matchings and bin packing that a large steel plant uses daily in mill operations.

Keywords: steel industry; operations planning; slab design; optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-33117-4_10

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