INVENTORY CREEP PHENOMENON IN PROCESS SCHEDULING Aleissa, Yazeed Muqbel Inventory Creep MPC Planning Production Process Scheduling Terminal Constraints This work discuss the inventory creep phenomenon that occurs in production processes. Most production process use inventory to store their products for max- imizing profit. When planning and scheduling control methods were applied, these processes encountered this phenomenon at the end of the controlled horizon. We applied the economic model protective control on a production process example and demonstrate the effect the inventory creep in open-loop and closed-loop solutions. An approach is developed to negate this problem by implementing a novel terminal constraints that showed a promising results in the overall performance of the process. M.S. in Chemical Engineering, May 2016 Chmielewski, Donald J. 2016 2016-05 Thesis application/pdf islandora:6474 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/3893 ChBE / Chemical and Biological Engineering Illinois Institute of Technology en In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access