Arbeitsgruppentreffen, 20./21. November 2008

Auf Einladung der GOR Arbeitsgruppen „Practice of the mathematical optimization“ and „Supply Chain Management“

Thema Scheduling in the Process Industry
Zeit Donnerstag/Freitag, 20./21. November 2008
Ort Physikzentrum Bad Honnef
Bad Honnef

Programm

Donnerstag, 20. November 2008

10:00 – 10:10 Opening and Welcom Session
J. Kallrath, A. Lavrov, H. Meyr
10:10 – 10:25 Physikzentrum Bad-Honnef: Information on the Conference Center
Victor Gomer
10:25 – 11:10 An Overview of the Development of Continuous Process Scheduling
Ronald Coxhead, Honeywell Process Solutions, Wiesbaden, Germany
11:15 – 12:00 A Dynamic Programming Extension to the Steady State LP
Franz Höfferl, OMV Refining & Marketing GmbH, Viennan, Austria
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 – 14:00 A Hybrid Method for Multi-Product Continuous Plant Scheduling Based on Decomposition Approach and Genetic Algorithms
Pavel A. Borisovsky, Omsk State Technical University, Omsk, Russia
14:05 – 14:50 „Booking World“ versus „Physical World“: Challenges in Linking Optimization to SAP APO
Axel Hecker, Mathesis GmbH, Mannheim, Germany
14:50 – 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 – 17:00 Visit & guided tour: Adenauer House
17:00 – 17:45 Tank scheduling in SAP SCM – Modeling Tricks and New Features
Cristopher Sürie, SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG, Waldorf, Germany
17:50 – 18:35 Integrated Operational Planning and Medium-Term Scheduling of a Large-Scale Industrial Batch Plant
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princenton University, NJ, USA
18:45 – Conference Dinner
Celebration of the 81th meeting of our GOR working group

Freitag, 21. November 2008

9:00 – 9:45 Sequential Batching and Scheduling of Multi-stage Multi-product Batch Plants
Norbert Trautmann, Universität Bern, Switzerland
9:50 – 10:35 A Closed-Loop Heuristic for Continuous Process Scheduling
Christoph Schwindt, Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
10:35 – 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 – 11:35 MIP-based Heuristics for Scheduling Batch Production with Shifts
Anton V. Eremeev, Omsk Branch of Sobolev Inst. of Mathematics, Omsk, Russia
11:40 – 12:25 New Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms for Chemical Batch Scheduling under Uncertainty
Jochen Till, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15 Scheduling Optimization of different value chains at BASF CZ (Intermediates division) in Ludwigshafen
Marc Scherens, OM Partners, Cologne, Germany
14:20 – 15:05
Erwin Kalvelagen, Amsterdam Optimization Group, Netherlands
15:05 – 15:25 Coffee break
15:25 – 16:10
Iiro Harjunkoski, ABB Forschungszentrum Deutschland, Ladenbur, Germany
16:15 – 17:00 A Heuristic for Generating Production Plans for Manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
Björn-Ragnar Weber, Universität Hamburg, Germany
17:00 – 17:35 The Future of Scheduling in the Process Industry: Challenges and Opportunities
Panel discussion (Coxhead, Floudas, Hecker, Höfferl, Kallrath, Sürie)
17:35 – 17:45 Final discussion
End of the workshop