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This paper deals with scheduling problem in electroplating facilities.
To maximise the productivity of electroplating lines, a predictive ap
proach can be used to find a sequence of hoist movements that can be c
yclically repeated. This NP-hard problem is known as the Cyclic Hoist
Scheduling Problem. An approach for the multi-hoists problem is sugges
ted. The presented model uses Constraint Logic Programming for finding
the optimal cyclic schedule for a given hoist assignment.