Enterprise Wide Optimization

People | Projects

Crane Scheduling for ABB: Progress Report
A progress report on the problem of scheduling two cranes to transfer material between locations in a copper processing facility. The objective is to minimize deviation from desired start times or completion times.
John Hooker | March 2006


Air Products: Rescheduling Bulk Gas Production & Distribution
How should production levels be set and sourcing decisions be made in order to meet customer demand at minimum cost?

Jeff Linderoth | March 2006


BP: Case Study Progress Report
The goal is to extend BP's current medium-term operations planning model so that it will account for the uncertainty in the forecasts of the future economic environment.
Andrew Schaefer | March 2006


Dow: Integrated Production Planning & Scheduling for Batch Operations
The goal is to propose a novel decomposition algorithm to integrate planning and scheduling for Multisite Batch Reactors and ensure optimality and consistency between the two levels.
Ignacio Grossmann | March 2006


ExxonMobil: Scheduling of Crude Oil Movements at Refinery Front-End
The objective is to minimize the cost of scheduling and planning the flow of crude oil in petrochemical refineries with an optimum schedule for the movement of crude oil.
Ignacio Grossmann | March 2006


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