Part 1 presented a novel continuous-time mathematical formulation for
the short-term scheduling of batch processes. Most production networks
, however, involve batch and continuous processes. On the basis of the
same principles, this paper extends the proposed formulation to descr
ibe continuous processes. Two industrial case studies from fast moving
consumer goods manufacturing are presented to illustrate the capabili
ty of the proposed formulation to describe plants with both batch and
continuous processes, to incorporate cleanup requirements, and to cons
ider storage requirements and limitations. It is demonstrated that the
proposed approach outperforms all previously proposed continuous-time
models for the short-term scheduling of continuous processes.