SCHEDULING IN A STEELMAKING-CONTINUOUS CASTING PLANT WITH OBJECTIVE OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION REDUCTION

In this paper we describe an optimization procedure based on PSO for planning the production of steel in a steelmaking continuous casting plant. The scheduling problem is first formulated as a large scaleinteger programming and a solution approach based on particle swarm optimization is then developed.The objective of scheduling is to meet due date and minimize of waiting times. Computational experience shows the effectiveness of this approach

Keywords:

Steelmaking scheduling , Flow shop , Integer programming , Particle Swarm Optimization