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An Efficient Heuristic for Planning Mother Plate Requirements at Bethlehem Steel

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  • Francis J. Vasko

    (Mathematics and CIS Department, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530 and Homer Research Laboratories, Bethlehem Steel Corporation)

  • Floyd E. Wolf

    (Homer Research Laboratories, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18016)

  • John A. Pflugrad

    (Sparrows Point Plant, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, Maryland 21219)

Abstract

So that Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant can produce narrow-width (NW) customer-plate orders (typically 10′′ to 24′′) efficiently when its 60′′ plate mill is not operating, we developed a heuristic procedure to map these orders into mother plates for production on its 160′′ plate mill. Mother plates processed on the 60′′ plate mill are cut, using fairly simple, two-stage guillotine cutting patterns, into a few NW customer plates. Considerably more NW plates can be cut from the much larger mother plates processed on the 160′′ mill, and the number of possible mappings of NW customer plates into mother plates is much larger. Our heuristic procedure was implemented as a module in the plant's production planning and control system, and it is used daily to generate mother-plate dimensions and cutting patterns.

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  • Francis J. Vasko & Floyd E. Wolf & John A. Pflugrad, 1991. "An Efficient Heuristic for Planning Mother Plate Requirements at Bethlehem Steel," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 21(2), pages 1-7, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:21:y:1991:i:2:p:1-7
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.21.2.1
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    1. Brian Denton & Diwakar Gupta & Keith Jawahir, 2003. "Managing Increasing Product Variety at Integrated Steel Mills," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 33(2), pages 41-53, April.
    2. Kerkkanen, Annastiina, 2007. "Determining semi-finished products to be stocked when changing the MTS-MTO policy: Case of a steel mill," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 108(1-2), pages 111-118, July.
    3. Yanasse, Horacio Hideki, 1997. "On a pattern sequencing problem to minimize the maximum number of open stacks," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 100(3), pages 454-463, August.
    4. Goutam Dutta & Robert Fourer, 2001. "A Survey of Mathematical Programming Applications in Integrated Steel Plants," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 3(4), pages 387-400.

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