A prototype of a system for batch scheduling in the process of gel washing in Cinkarna
- Customer
- Cinkarna Chemical works
- Duration
- 2003
- Objectives
- To ensure uniform production and the required capacity of the two-stage gel-washing process.
- Description
- Determination of the starting times for individual batches by taking into account the current process states, technological constraints and required capacity.
- Innovation
- An online batch-scheduling algorithm for predicting the appropriate starting time for a single new batch, which takes into account the shared resources, blocking and no-wait constraints of the two-stage gel-washing process.
- Benefits
- more uniform production
- more stable product quality
- decision support for the process operators
- Info
- vladimir.jovan@ijs.si
