International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Every company needs production scheduling in order to remain in the competing market and meet the customer needs. In this paper a production scheduling model for a variety of products in different packaging, on separate production lines in a juice factory is presented. There is sequence dependency between products. The production scheduling model is presented based on mixed integer linear programming. It includes setup times and costs. Furthermore a decision support system has been developed for production scheduling in order to help the manager in decision processing. The model is applied to a juice factory.