Cost Optimization for 2 plants

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AnushaAttuluri
AnushaAttuluri Member, ALL USERS, Partner Posts: 3 New Contributor
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If I am doing cost optimization for 2 plants where I have demand & Supply for the 2 plants seperately. For a specific time period if my constraints are getting satisfied for plant and not for other plant, I am not getting the optimal solution for that plant with satisfied constraints. Can I get the solution for only that plant even when the constraints are not satisfied for other plant?
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  • dihya.atmani
    dihya.atmani Member, ALL USERS, Employee, Certified Model Builder Posts: 5 Contributor

    Hello

    All the constraints have to be met for the solution to be feasible. A solution that is not feasible can not be optimal.

    With Optimizer we resolve the problem in its globality. Which means we don't look for a solution plant by plant, we look for a solution that optimises the objective function. 

    if one of the constraints are not met, you need to find a new way to write your constraint. Because, if you leave it that way, you will have infeasiblities, which means no solution 

     

    Regards

    Dihya Atmani

  • gerip03
    gerip03 Member, ALL USERS Posts: 1 Not applicable
    @anikdas wrote:

    When you are running optimizer to solve for a problem, it might stop (as in this case) if the constraints are not satisfied completely. Depending on the planar, it can stop without giving an optimal solution for the other plant as well. You will not get an optimal result. If the optimizer fails, it is not recommended to use the values it might have changed during the iterations. I will recommend to run solutions for individual plants if there are no overlap between the two.

    Agree +1

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