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Saving Time & Money
KBSI has extensive experience in optimization, scheduling, simulation, logistics, and supply chain management method and technology development and has participated in numerous efforts to streamline, optimize, and manage programmed maintenance and logistics. We've implemented over $7M worth of planning and optimization initiatives and have developed 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 worked on a number of funded optimization projects, including development of an optimization modeling assistant (OMA) for NASA that can be used to model and solve several types of decision-making problems. For an SBIR Phase II initiative funded by the U.S. Army, KBSI designed and implemented artificial intelligence techniques (neural networks, genetic algorithms, and simulated annealing) for commercial applications including technology that optimizes the cash shipment schedules of large banks (ATM CashMiner, ATM CashProspector, Branch CashMiner, and Branch CashProspector).
In another SBIR Phase II effort (currently in Phase III), KBSI 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.
With funding from the Office of Naval Research, KBSI 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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