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Solving Planning & Scheduling Problems
Over the past two decades, KBSI has successfully completed a large number of planning and scheduling efforts utilizing artificial intelligence and optimization techniques. These techniques provide rich and flexible representations of real-world problems, allowing human expertise to be included in the loop. KBSI has implemented over $7M worth of planning and optimization initiatives. Our experience in optimization, planning, agent technology, scheduling, process representation, and life-cycle modeling and analysis ensure the successful development of innovative, knowledge-based solutions to issues 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 depot maintenance units. 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 adopted to represent a wide spectrum of complex, deterministic scheduling problems.
KBSI’s simulation based scheduling tool, WorkSim®, has been successfully used for planning and scheduling applications at Bender Shipbuilding and Repair and at the NASA Kennedy Space Center. It is also being deployed at Tinker Air Force Base. This simulation-based scheduling technology was leveraged in developing 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. In the depot environment, the inability to monitor the status and location of MRO assets results in increased costs as well as delays in the repair flow day. RampMap® provides knowledge based visualization, management, and tracking of aircraft and GSE across the ALC. 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 both automated and semi-automated de-confliction across echelons and constraint types.
KBSI’s PROPLAN™ is a planning and scheduling support system that assists with maintenance requirements definition, task planning, resource requirements definition, depot schedule development, multi-aircraft schedule feasibility analysis, schedule forecasting, work dispatching and contingency planning and simulation.
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