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Continuous Casting Scheduling with Constraint Programming

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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2014)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNPSE,volume 8656))

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Although the Steel Mill Slab problem (prob 38 of CSPLib) has already been studied by the CP community, this approach is unfortunately not used anymore by steel producers since last century. Continuous casting is preferred instead, allowing higher throughput and better steel quality. This paper presents a CP model related to scheduling of operations for steel making with continuous casting. Activities considered range from the extraction of iron in the furnace to its casting in continuous casters. We describe the problem, detail a CP scheduling model that is finally used to solve real-life instances of some of the PSI Metals’ customers.

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Gay, S., Schaus, P., De Smedt, V. (2014). Continuous Casting Scheduling with Constraint Programming. In: O’Sullivan, B. (eds) Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming. CP 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10428-7_59

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