A cutting plane approach for integrated planning and scheduling

  • Authors:
  • T. Kis;A. Kovács

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer and Automation Institute, Kende str. 13-17, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary;Computer and Automation Institute, Kende str. 13-17, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Operations Research
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a branch-and-cut algorithm for solving an integrated production planning and scheduling problem in a parallel machine environment. The planning problem consists of assigning each job to a week over the planning horizon, whereas in the scheduling problem those jobs assigned to a given week have to be scheduled in a parallel machine environment such that all jobs are finished within the week. We solve this problem in two ways: (1) as a monolithic mathematical program and (2) using a hierarchical decomposition approach in which only the planning decisions are modeled explicitly, and the existence of a feasible schedule for each week is verified by using cutting planes. The two approaches are compared with extensive computational testing.