INVESTIGADORES
RODRIGUEZ Maria Analia
artículos
Título:
Simultaneous optimization of production planning and inventory management of polyurethane foam plant
Autor/es:
RODRIGUEZ, MARIA ANALIA; CORSANO, GABRIELA; VECCHIETTI, ALDO; MONTAGNA, MARCELO
Revista:
OPTIMIZATION AND ENGINEERING
Editorial:
SPRINGER
Referencias:
Lugar: Berlin; Año: 2018 vol. 19 p. 97 - 123
ISSN:
1389-4420
Resumen:
In this work, the management of a polyurethane foam plant is tackled through a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model that simultaneously solves production and inventory planning problems. The production process considers the foam blooming stage as well as the curing step where the blocks are dried. The proposed formulation considers several tradeoffs involved in the overall production process.The production scheduling is tightly related with production requirements, available space for the curing and stored elements.Besides, the required time to dry blocks introduce a delay that must be appropriately considered in order to allow an adequate operation of downstream operations. Thus, an integrated approach where all these problems are jointly addressed is proposed using a mathematical programming model. Several study cases provided by a local company are tested to show the model performance.
