Coil batching to improve productivity and energy utilization in steel production

This paper investigates a practical batching decision problem that arises in the batch annealing operations in the cold rolling stage of steel production faced by most large iron and steel companies in the world. The problem is to select steel coils from a set of waiting coils to form batches to be...

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Main Authors: Lixin Tang, Ying Meng, Zhi-Long Chen, Jiyin Liu
Format: Default Article
Published: 2015
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Steel production
Batch annealing
Batching decisions
Integer programming
Dynamic programming
Branch-and-price-and-cut
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/21455
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