Title :
Scheduling high-grade steelmaking
Author :
Dorn, Jürgen ; Shams, Reza
Author_Institution :
Christian Doppler Lab. for Expert Syst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Austria
fDate :
2/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This expert system for scheduling high-grade steel production cuts engineering planning time, allows for greater what-if experimentation, and improves quality control. The complexity of production-cycle scheduling problems had defeated earlier, purely conventional software approaches
Keywords :
expert systems; production control; steel industry; steel manufacture; engineering planning time; high-grade steel production; high-grade steelmaking scheduling; production-cycle scheduling problems; quality control; Alloying; Capacity planning; Casting; Constraint theory; Control systems; Job shop scheduling; Production; Slabs; Steel; Strain control;
Journal_Title :
IEEE Expert