Optimization Of Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) Dispatching Schedule: A Literature Review

  Mr A. K. Gaikwad,  Dr. S. B. Thakare

Considering the infrastructural development in India over past decades, especially in Maharashtra due to industrialization and urbanisation, the construction sectors rules the Indian economy. Concrete being most popular material of the construction sector, concrete batch plants will see a massive growth in line with the infrastructural expansion [1]. Delivering Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) to construction sites is an important task of RMC batch plant manager. The RMC batch plant manager has to prepare an efficient schedule of dispatching RMC trucks, which will optimizes the operations at the construction sites and also at the batch plant. This is because of time limitation of RMC delivery which is 1.5 hrs, the dispatching manager has to consider both time and flexibility while matching up the working process at different construction sites that calls for delivery. The existing dispatching schedule mainly depends on the experiences of the dispatching manager and preferences from site. Whatever logic the plant manager applies for dispatching RMC trucks to the required construction site it may results in the waiting of RMC trucks at one site and keeping other sites waiting for the arrivals of RMC trucks, called as ‘interruption’. Hence there is a need to develop a systematic model that incorporates soft computing techniques, to find optimal dispatching schedule which not only will provide the “Un-interrupted” dispatching schedule but also minimizes the total waiting time of RMC trucks. This paper tries to give an overall idea of the research work done till date in this area along with the hurdles in dispatching and also to suggest the scope for the future research work.

Keywords- RMC optimization, Ready Mix Concrete dispatching schedule optimizer, Literature review for RMC dispatching, hurdles in RMC dispatching.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1901060
Page Number(s) - 327-332
Pubished in - Volume 7 | Issue 1 | February 2019
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -   
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Mr A. K. Gaikwad,  Dr. S. B. Thakare,   "Optimization Of Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) Dispatching Schedule: A Literature Review", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.7, Issue 1, pp.327-332, February 2019, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1901060.pdf