Optimal solution for a textile production unit
A scheduling problem can be described as a set of constraints
within which an optimal schedule solution must be found. Using a
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) approach
a difficult real-life example problem of job scheduling was
successfully solved. The job scheduling task was aimed at optimizing production
unit schedules with respect to energy consumption.
The optimal problem solution was obtained by
exhaustive search in a substantially constrainted space of admissible
solutions.