Computers & Chemical Engineering, Vol.116, 191-211, 2018
Medium-term optimization-based approach for the integration of production planning, scheduling and maintenance
A medium-term optimization-based approach is proposed for the integration of production planning, scheduling and maintenance. The problem presented in this work considers a multiproduct single-stage batch process plant with parallel units and limited resources. An MILP continuous-time formulation is developed based on the main ideas of travelling salesman problem and precedence-based constraints to deal with, sequence-dependent unit performance decay, flexible recovery operations, resource availability and product lifetime. Small scheduling examples have been solved and compared with adapted formulations from the literature, based on discrete-time and global-time events, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed solution approach. Additional planning and scheduling problems have been proposed by considering several time periods. Multi-period examples have been efficiently solved by the model showing the applicability of the solution approach for medium-size problems. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords:MILP-based approach;Planning;Scheduling and Maintenance;Traveling Salesman Problem;Precedence-based representation;Performance decay;Flexible recovery operations