Case Study
Pentair Water Solutions, Ltd. Production Scheduling
Business Situation Pentair Water Solutions manufactures a range of irrigation-related products on a metal casting production line. The manufacturing process involves pouring molten metal into a series of molds across two pouring lines. The process is quite complex, owing to the huge number of molds involved (1300), the fact that each product requires precise and potentially different metal temperatures and cooling schedules, and the fact that