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Saving Time & Money
KBSI is renowned for its expertise in optimization, scheduling, simulation, logistics, and supply chain management and has participated in numerous efforts to streamline, optimize, and manage programmed maintenance and logistics. KBSI has implemented over $7M worth of planning and optimization initiatives and has the necessary expertise to develop robust, commercial applications in the following areas:
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Production optimization |
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Workflow optimization |
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Business process optimization |
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Production schedule optimization |
KBSI has received funding from the DoD and NASA for the research and development of optimization methods for complex decision-making challenges. For example, KBSI developed an optimization modeling assistant (OMA) for NASA that can be used to model and solve several types of decision-making problems. Through an SBIR Phase II initiative funded by the U.S. Army, KBSI designed and implemented artificial intelligence techniques such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing for commercial applications including technology that optimizes the cash shipment schedules of large banks.
In another SBIR Phase II effort (currently in Phase III), we developed a tool called WorkSim® that provides simulation-based optimal shop floor scheduling. WorkSim® uses WITNESS® software for deriving schedules and a heuristic algorithm for optimal schedule selection. The WorkSim® database stores all data and generated schedules for the active WorkSim® project, allowing users to build comprehensive scheduling projects, save those projects, and make updates to saved project workloads, tasks, resources, and all data associated with those elements. All generated schedules and reports are also saved in the WorkSim® database for easy access.
Funded by the Office of Naval Research, we also developed a resource-constrained finite capacity scheduling tool called WorkShip that provides optimal production schedules in shipyards. The tool based on a heuristic optimization method was successfully implemented at Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. in Mobile, AL.
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