SBIR Phase II: Advanced Planning and Scheduling Tools for Extended Enterprise Systems

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将建立在第一阶段项目成功开发的基础上，该项目为计划和作业调度系统开发了模型和算法。本提案中描述的软件工具将使各组织能够实时安排其业务，以生成最优计划，以最大限度地实现其业务目标。在第一阶段，该小组利用最近在大规模优化领域的创新研究和新开发的嵌套分区方法，创建了新的计划和调度算法，并进行了成功的实证研究。在第二阶段，团队计划进一步开发这一概念，以在几家制造公司创建成功的实施。将在第二阶段开发的技术将大大增强目前规划和调度软件工具的能力。这一创新为高级计划和排程软件市场带来了最先进的决策和优化方法。此外，用建议的方法开发的计划系统将为公司增加新的灵活性，使其更快地适应不断变化的材料、运营和市场条件。这个SBIR项目将使新的计划和调度工具几乎可以广泛地应用于任何制造公司。拟议的计划和计划工具将使他们能够沟通、协作和集成他们的计划和计划功能，以在整个企业和整个供应链中获得最佳结果。预计这些工具的协同使用最终将为美国制造公司创建一个集成的网络基础设施，并创建更高效的供应链，使这些公司在全球市场上更具竞争力。此外，如果成功，这一拟议工具的开发将导致富有成效的尝试，以开发可用于许多其他经济部门的先进规划和调度软件工具并将其商业化。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will build upon the successful development of the Phase I project that developed models and algorithms for planning and job scheduling systems. The software tool described in this proposal will allow organizations to schedule their operations in real-time to generate the optimal plan to maximizing their operational targets. During Phase I, the team created new planning and scheduling algorithms and successful empirical studies using recent innovative research in the areas of large-scale optimization and the newly developed methodology of Nested Partitions. In Phase II the team plan to further develop the concept to create successful implementations in several manufacturing firms. The technology to be developed in Phase II will greatly enhance the capability of the current planning and scheduling software tools. This innovation brings the state-of-the-art decision and optimization methodology to the Advanced Planning and Scheduling software market. In addition, planning systems developed with the proposed methodology will add new levels of flexibility for companies to more quickly adapt to changing material, operational, and market conditions. This SBIR project will make new planning and scheduling tools broadly accessible to virtually any manufacturing firm. The proposed scheduling and planning tools will enable them to communicate, collaborate, and integrate their planning and scheduling functionalities to obtain optimal results throughout their enterprise and their entire supply chain. It is expected that coordinated use of these tools will eventually create an integrated cyber-infrastructure for American manufacturing firms and create more efficient supply chains that will enable these firms to be more competitive in the global marketplace. Moreover, if successful, the development of this proposed tool will lead to fruitful attempts to develop and commercialize an advanced planning and scheduling software tools that can be used for many other sectors of the economy.