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Solving Planning & Scheduling Problems
Over the past two decades, KBSI has successfully completed over $7M worth of planning and scheduling initiatives utilizing artificial intelligence and optimization techniques. We've applied our expertise in optimization, planning, agent technologies, scheduling, process representation, and life-cycle modeling and analysis to the development of innovative, knowledge-based solutions that address challenges in warehousing, path planning, and loading for a wide variety of industries including manufacturing, transportation, computer processing, production planning, and space transportation systems.
KBSI has significant expertise in building software tools for scheduling heterogeneous workloads in various workshops at large military depots. The Workload Transition Testbed (WTT) technology and WorkSim® are two powerful scheduling tools developed by KBSI for Air Force maintenance depots. KBSI has also developed, as part of research funded by the Department of Defense, a generic scheduling model that can be adapted to represent a wide spectrum of complex, deterministic scheduling problems. WorkSim® has also been successfully used for planning and scheduling applications at Bender Shipbuilding and Repair and at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. This simulation-based scheduling technology was also leveraged in KBSI's development Soldier Focused Logistics-based management decision-making and capability assessment support for the CH-47 PMO in the Army Transformation in Logistics (ATL) Go-To-War (GTW™) project.
KBSI’s Reliability Centered Maintenance Scheduler (RCMS™) tool and supporting application methodology helps users maximize propulsion system availability while simultaneously minimizing life cycle cost. The tool encapsulates a reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) strategy that supports maintenance planning and scheduling such that multiple competing objectives are simultaneously optimized.
KBSI’s RampMap® software is helping the Oklahoma City-Air Logistics Center (OC-ALC) achieve real-time visibility of aircraft and ground support equipment (GSE), improving their ability to quickly locate, stage, deploy, and coordinate critical resources for product and resource movement, planning and scheduling. Tinker Air Force Base, in addition to the Eastern Range (Space Launch support at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station), also utilize KBSI's Visual Planning Wizard for schedule conflict identification and automated and semi-automated de-confliction across echelons and constraint types.
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