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: School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas 75082
Jayant Kalagnanam: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
Ho Soo Lee: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
Chandra Reddy: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
Stuart Siegel: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598
Mark Trumbo: IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York 10598

Interfaces, 2004, vol. 34, issue 3, 215-225

Abstract: Planners in the steel industry 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: industries; mining; metals; production; scheduling; planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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