Production scheduling is an important and complex
problem faced by iron and steel enterprises, which is featured by
its discrete and continuous process as well as multi-objective
decision making characteristics. Recognized as a NP-Hard
problem, it is clear that analytical method is difficult to
effectively address this production scheduling problem.
Combined with visual simulation technology, this paper drew a
comprehensive analysis of steelmaking-continuous casting
production and logistics system simulation methods to propose
visual simulation system structure for iron and steel production
scheduling process based on simulation software Flexsim, for
which functional analysis, key technology and development
process are presented. Also simulation model is designed for
steelmaking-continuous casting production scheduling with
discussion on the optimization algorithm and key technologies.
Then applied with actual production data, simulation examples
are shown on simplified production model.