Real-world production scheduling for the food industry: An integrated approach

Scheduling of production and logistics operations of steam production systems in food industries: a case study of the tomato processing industry

“…Both topics are relevant for food and agroindustries, particularly to the first as the industrial capacity and cost can be substantially modified due to changes in the production planning. Some studies have addressed specifically the operations scheduling in food and agro-industries, for instance: Doganis and Sarimveis (2007) proposed a mixed integer model for production scheduling in a single production line of yogurt; Simpson and Abakarov (2009) optimized the scheduling of thermal process in canned food industry; Toso et al (2009) approached the production scheduling in an animalfeed company; Ferreira et al (2010) dealt with the production lot-sizing and scheduling in the beverage industry; Kopanos et al (2011Kopanos et al ( , 2012 coped with the production planning in semicontinuous food industries; Mehrotra et al (2011) conducted a study of production planning with patterns in a large company in USA; Amorim et al (2012) formulated models integrating production and distribution planning of perishable goods; Wauters et al (2012) also approached the production scheduling for the food industry in real contexts.…”

Reconfigurable distributed model predictive control

“…Such a problem is also known as flexible or holonic manufacturing (Chokshi and McFarlane, 2008b). Examples of such cases are presented in Wauters et al (2012) in the context of food processing, Chacón et al (2004) for oil production, Chokshi and McFarlane (2008a) for chemical process operations and Salomons et al (2004) for processing methane emissions. Another application is to ensure the stability of the process network when some process units are taken offline for scheduled maintenance.…”

Distributed control of chemical process networks

“…which can be connected together in different ways to efficiently produce different products or product grades. Examples of such cases are presented in the context of food processing [124] , for oil production [125] , and for processing methane emissions [126] .…”