BASF Uses a Framework for Developing Web-Based Production-Planning-Optimization Tools

Young M. Lee () and E. Jack Chen ()
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Young M. Lee: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 218, Route 134, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
E. Jack Chen: BASF Corporation, 3000 Continental Drive North, Mount Olive, New Jersey 07828

Interfaces, 2002, vol. 32, issue 6, 15-24

Abstract: We developed a computational framework for delivering practical production-planning-optimization tools on BASF Intranet. The framework enables users with Web browsers to access complex optimization tools to interactively compute optimal production plans on any computer platform. We formulated a MILP (mixed-integer linear programming) production-planning-optimization model for one of BASF's chemical manufacturing plants and built a generic infrastructure for integrating optimization engines and the Internet using server-side Java programming. This framework has changed the way BASF implements and deploys mathematical modeling tools.

Keywords: Industries: chemical; production-planning; Programming: integer; linear (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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