Solving Large-Scale Production Scheduling and Planning in the Process Industries : Springer : 9783030131647 : 3030131645 : 10 Dec 2019 : This book presents a number of efficient techniques for solving large-scale production scheduling and planning problems in process industries. The main content is supplemented by a wealth of illustrations, while case studies on large-scale industrial applications, ranging from continuous to semicontinuous and batch processes, round out the coverage. The book examines a variety of complex, real-world problems, and demonstrates solutions that are applicable to scenarios and countries around the world. Specifically, these case studies include: ? the production planning of the bottling stage of a major brewery at the Cervecería     Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (Heineken Int) in Mexico;? the production scheduling for multi-stage semicontinuous processes at an ice-cream   production facility of Unilever in the Netherlands;? the resource-constrained production plann