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A finishingline consists of some or all of the above units and is custom configured to meet the customer's needs to produce various flyers, direct mail and promotional items.
The finishingline produces a variety of folded direct mail and promotional pieces, trimmed to size and ready to ship off the press.
A typical finishing system is located downstream of customer's ink-jet imaging station and consists of a controlled infeed, a ribbon deck, wet gluer, several plow towers, each with two rotary plows and a variable size Gap-Cutting Rotary Cutter.
The steel mill had finished automating the scheduling of primary steelmaking, which covers the upstream processes of coil production, but their problem was how to determine accurate due dates for slabs for a longer horizon in order to utilize the automated scheduler more efficiently.
The preceding process is the process immediately upstream in the finishinglines from which coil i comes; the succeeding process is the process immediately downstream to which coil i goes.
The detailed description of the CGL sequencer, which is regarded as the most difficult process in the finishinglines in terms of sequencing, appears in another report [13].