Integrated Planning & Scheduling Model and Optimization Simulation of Multi-base Collaborative Manufacturing for Cement Industry

This paper aims at the multi-base cooperative production and scheduling problem in cement industry. Considering the supply of raw materials, manufacturing capacity of production lines, inventory capacity and customer demand, a MIP (Mixed Integer Programming) model is established. Then AMPL (A Mathematical Programming Language) is used to formally describe this MIP optimization model. The problem then is solved by Gurobi solver. Finally, the collaborative optimization problem is visually configured and solved based on the developed network collaborative manufacturing simulation software platform. The computational results verify the effectiveness of the optimization problem modeling and the feasibility of the simulation platform.