Designing an effective production system for processing agricultural products

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of designing an effective production system for processing agricultural products, where raw materials, are harvested seasonally and have a limited shelf-life because of their perishability, although the market demand for the final products may be reasonably uniform throughout the year

This model can clarify the relationship between production capacity and supply capability to the annual market demand, where the production system has two different types of processing processes and the number of workers hired by the plant is constant throughout the year. From the results of analysis, this paper proposes a method for designing an optimum production system under multiple-objective functions.