Hierarchical production planning and scheduling in a multi-product, batch process environment

This paper introduces a three-level hierarchical production planning and scheduling approach for multi-product and identical parallel machines in a batch process environment. The hierarchical approach extends the existing formulation and determines the optimal number of monthly batches that need to...

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Main Authors: Omar, M. K., Teo, S. C.
Format: Article
Published: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 4 PARK SQUARE 2007
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Online Access:http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3089/