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Production planning and scheduling in the glass container industry: A VNS approach

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  • Almada-Lobo, Bernardo
  • Oliveira, José F.
  • Carravilla, Maria Antónia

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Inspired by a case study, this paper reports a successful application of VNS to the production planning and scheduling problem that arises in the glass container industry. This is a multi-facility production system, where each facility has a set of furnaces where the glass paste is produced in order to meet the demand, being afterwards distributed to a set of parallel molding machines. Since the neighborhoods used are not nested, they are not ordered by increasing sizes, but by means of a new empirical measure to assess the distance between any two solutions. Neighborhood sizes decrease significantly throughout the search thus suggesting the use of a scheme in which efficiency is placed over effectiveness in a first step, and the opposite in a second step. We test this variant as well as other two with a real-world problem instance from our case study.

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  • Almada-Lobo, Bernardo & Oliveira, José F. & Carravilla, Maria Antónia, 2008. "Production planning and scheduling in the glass container industry: A VNS approach," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 114(1), pages 363-375, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:114:y:2008:i:1:p:363-375
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