Computational developments for production planning in small foundries

• Grant number: 12/22191-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Operational Research
• Principal Investigator: Victor Claudio Bento de Camargo
• Grantee: Diego Navarenho
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The foundry industry is an important intermediate in many sectors of the Brazilian economy. The production planning process for the foundry helps to increase its productivity. For the coding of systemic processes, models and solution methods are being studied in recent years. Our purpose is to study the production-planning problem in a small foundry. The objective is to present an extension to a mathematical model to represent an environment with multiple furnaces. Furthermore, the development of libraries for the programming of the models should help the comparing of optimization software and indicate which best fits the problem studied.(AU)