Overview of Industrial Batch Process Scheduling

The operation of a production facility has a major effect on the efficiency; therefore it is of upmost importance to find the best possible schedule. Due to the high practical expediency, the topic of batch process scheduling has gained growing interest in the last two decades and many approaches have been published to solve a wide variety of scheduling problems. In the present work first the different type of batch scheduling problems are overviewed, then the advantages and disadvantages of the available methods for batch process scheduling are summarized.