A fast heuristic for a lot splitting and scheduling problem of a textile industry

In this paper we address a lot splitting and scheduling problem of a Textile factory that produces garment pieces. Each garment piece is made of a set of components that are produced on the knitting section of the company. The problem consists of finding a weekly production plan for the knitting sec...

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Main Author: Pimentel, Carina (author)
Other Authors: Alvelos, Filipe (author), Carvalho, J.M. Valério de (author), Duarte, António J.S.T. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:eng
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10198/7277
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:bibliotecadigital.ipb.pt:10198/7277
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Summary:In this paper we address a lot splitting and scheduling problem of a Textile factory that produces garment pieces. Each garment piece is made of a set of components that are produced on the knitting section of the company. The problem consists of finding a weekly production plan for the knitting section, establishing the quantities to produce of each component (organized in one or several lots), and where and when starting/completion times) to produce them. The main contribution of this work is the development of a constructive heuristic that generates automated knitting scheduling plans. The heuristic produces solutions very fast for a set of randomly generated instances based on real world data.