SBIR Phase I: Web-Based Manufacturing Performance Management with Multi-Objective, Multi-model Optimization using Meta-Modeling

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将进一步开发一个新的流程路径管理系统（FPMS），它代表了企业资源规划（ERP）和供应链管理（SCM）方面的创新，它比现有的供应链管理（SCM）软件在提高制造绩效方面更有效，因为它将“精益制造”原则纳入了一套创新的基于模拟的优化算法。该公司将研究一种基于仿真优化的创新应用，即元建模，以解决其客户常见的制造性能问题。该公司将开发软件，通过互联网提供这些算法，并将软件与通用后端遗留系统集成。如果成功，这个研究项目的结果将为制造业客户节省数百万美元的库存。虚拟企业和较小的制造公司将受益于可以通过万维网交付的系统。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will further develop a new Flow Path Management System (FPMS) representing an innovation in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) that is more effective than existing supply chain management (SCM) software at improving manufacturing performance, because it incorporates "lean manufacturing" principles into a set of innovative simulation-based optimization algorithms. The company will research an innovative application of simulation-based optimization known as meta modeling to the manufacturing performance problems common at its customers.The company will develop software that will deliver these algorithms via the Internet and integrate the software with common back-end legacy systems. If successful, the result of this research project will provide millions of dollars in inventory savings to manufacturing customers. Virtual enterprises and smaller manufacturing companies will benefit from the systems that can be delivered via the World Wide Web.