In this paper we present a mathematical program and heuristic algorithms to schedule coils for the production operations in a copper (or steel) coil manufacturing industry. The processing facility uses continuous operations for processing (e.g., galvanizing and annealing) while the handling unit...

Motivated by a practical problem arising from the home health care industry, we consider an integrated routing and appointment scheduling problem with random service durations. Given a set of patients with known locations and service duration distributions, the health care team is required to...