Balance an assembly line in order to minimise its total cycle time. The assembly line consists of a series of workstations. Tasks with precedence relationships must be assigned to workstations that have individual cycle times.
Determine which blocks to mine each year in order to stay within annual capacity limits, produce a steady flow of useable material, and satisfy removal precedence constraints.
Select a route for each call pair in a network structure. Demand volumes between each pair is known and traffic over each link must not exceed the link capacity.
Determine production quantities for various products that minimises the total setup and holding costs while not exceeding the production capacity. Demand, production rates, setup costs and holding costs are known.
Determine the optimal lot sizes for various products in order to minimise production costs. Each product has a known setup time, setup cost, production time, production cost and holding cost.
Various processes blend materials in fixed proportions to convert them to one or more materials. Proportion of materials must satisfy certain quality requirements and each process uses resources that are of limited time availability.
Determine the quantities of each brand of food to produce daily in order to maximise the total revenue without exceeding the available supply of ingredients. Each brand has a specified ration of ingredients.