This paper addresses a production planning problem in the steel industry, specifically
focusing on determining production quantities and product-to-order assignment considering …

The converter furnace and the continuous casting are the most important stages in steel
production. Modern integrated processes directly connect the converter furnaces and the …

This paper studies a hot rolling batch scheduling problem in compact strip production (CSP),
which is decomposed into a two-stage problem. The first stage is the strip combination …

The maintenance, repair and operation (MRO) spare parts that are vital to machine
operations are playing an increasingly important role in manufacturing enterprises. MRO …

In steel coil storages, gantry cranes store steel coils in a triangular stacking pattern and
retrieve them to serve customer demand on time. The crane movements cause high energy …

This article analyses a slab assignment problem for non-identical reheat furnaces in the
steelmaking industry. We tackle the problem of assigning slabs to different types of reheat …

This paper studies a common planning problem encountered in steelmaking production.
The problem is to group different customer orders into a set of batches to accommodate the …

As one kind of product service supply chains, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO)
service chain manages the physical industrial products and the related MRO services, and …

The fine description of multi-process operation behavior in steelmaking-continuous casting
process is an important foundation for the improvement of production scheduling in steel …

This work formulates and investigates a steel grade design problem (SGDP) arising from a
production process of steelmaking continuous casting. For the first time, we consider …