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Crane scheduling in a shipbuilding environment

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  • Wen, Charlie
  • Eksioglu, Sandra Duni
  • Greenwood, Allen
  • Zhang, Shu

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This paper describes exact and heuristic approaches for scheduling multiple cranes that service a shipyard that produces multiple ships concurrently. Cranes transport a variety of materials over a shared network of tracks; therefore, inter-crane interference is a major factor affecting makespan and crane utilization. The exact approach models the problem as a multi-commodity flow problem with side constraints on a network. The corresponding integer programming formulation is solved using CPLEX. The heuristics proposed decompose the problem in two sub-problems: a scheduling problem that determines the order in which jobs should be performed, and an assignment problem that assigns cranes to jobs. Computational results show that using the Priority/ACO (ant colony optimization) heuristic gives high quality solutions.

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  • Wen, Charlie & Eksioglu, Sandra Duni & Greenwood, Allen & Zhang, Shu, 2010. "Crane scheduling in a shipbuilding environment," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 124(1), pages 40-50, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:proeco:v:124:y:2010:i:1:p:40-50
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