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- Title
Planning of a make-to-order production process in the printing industry.
- Authors
Baumann, Philipp; Forrer, Salome; Trautmann, Norbert
- Abstract
Offset printing is a common method to produce large amounts of printed matter. We consider a real-world offset printing process that is used to imprint customer-specific designs on napkin pouches. The production equipment used gives rise to various technological constraints. The planning problem consists of allocating designs to printing-plate slots such that the given customer demand for each design is fulfilled, all technological and organizational constraints are met and the total overproduction and setup costs are minimized. We formulate this planning problem as a mixed-binary linear program, and we develop a multi-pass matching-based savings heuristic. We report computational results for a set of problem instances devised from real-world data.
- Subjects
MAKE-to-order (Manufacturing); PRINTING industry; OFFSET printing; NAPKINS; OVERPRODUCTION
- Publication
Flexible Services & Manufacturing Journal, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 4, p534
- ISSN
1936-6582
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10696-014-9203-1