Optimization of Industrial Production of Feed Blends as Multiple Criteria Programming Problem

Optimization of industrial production of feed blends in terms of their nutritive value and in terms of economic criteria can be carried out by application of mathematical optimization methods. The benefit of application of these methods is fast and efficient solution for the optimal combination of ingredients considering the nutritive needs of animals and constraints in their availability. Unlike the standard problem of feed where the requirements for basic nutrients have to be met at minimised costs and which is solved mainly by linear programming, the authors introduce also the goals of meal quality where different requirements of decision makers are modelled by multiple-criteria linear programming.