A MINLP Approach to Optimizing Batch Production Schedulingfor Perishables Batches

Batch production is one of producing processes and cause to decrease production costs if itsprogramming is optimized. This method has many applications in chemical, mechanical parts andpolymer industries. Te literature review show a lot of researches concentrated on Batch ProductionScheduling but shelf time have a little attentions from author. In this paper we modeled BatchProduction scheduling with heuristic method of operations sequence to separate constraint dependenceof fixed setting costs from objective function where products are perishable and have shelf time. Inthis study we applied Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) to model problem and solvedan numerical instance with using Lingo software package.