Study On Optimization Of Production Dispatching Of Container Terminals

The competition among the modern container terminals covers not only the hardware butalso the modern management level. With the growth of the handling capacity of the container terminals, the management personnel realize that as long as the management brings to effect, the investment results in such aspects as facilities, equipments and information technology will be more obvious.As production dispatching is the core of the production, operation and management system of the harbor, quality of production dispatching produces a great impact upon the economic benefits of the enterprises. However, in China the majority of the enterprises still adopt the traditional modes of production which are based on work experience, thereby bottlenecking the improvement of transportation efficiency and operation capability. Therefore, the research upon optimization of production dispatching of container terminals is of great significance to both theory and practice.The rationale of the dissertation is based on BPR (Business Process Reengineering) theory and Optimization dispatching theory. Since the BPR (Business Process Reengineering) theory was put forward, it has been utilized broadly both at home and abroad. But the production dispatching of container terminals is a multi-level process, the methods of BPR in the multi-level production dispatching process of container terminals should be studied. Methods of Optimization dispatching theory vary, that is, each method owns its won advantage and defect. In terms of the process of production operation in container terminals, it is applicable to adopt the simulation technology to work out the NP-HARD issue. However, in the application of the emulation technology there still exist some gaps, such as: lack of micro-analysis of the production dispatching and research upon the complete process of dispatching, including apron. Level handling and yard. These problems are explored as the emphasis of the dissertation through theoretical, practical and empirical methods.The dissertation includes the following major research areas:1. Research based on the BPR theory has been carried on upon methods of optimization of...