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

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将建立在第一阶段项目的成功开发的基础上，该项目开发了规划和作业调度系统的模型和算法。本提案中所述的软件工具将使各组织能够实时安排其业务，以生成最佳计划，最大限度地实现其业务目标。在第一阶段，该团队使用大规模优化领域的最新创新研究和新开发的嵌套分区方法，创建了新的规划和调度算法以及成功的实证研究。在第二阶段，该团队计划进一步发展这一概念，以便在几家制造公司中成功实施。第二阶段开发的技术将大大提高目前规划和调度软件工具的能力。这项创新为高级计划和调度软件市场带来了最先进的决策和优化方法。此外，使用所提出的方法开发的规划系统将为公司增加新的灵活性，以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广泛地提供给几乎所有的制造企业。拟议的调度和规划工具将使他们能够沟通，协作和整合其规划和调度功能，以获得整个企业和整个供应链的最佳结果。预计这些工具的协调使用最终将为美国制造业公司创建一个集成的网络基础设施，并创建更有效的供应链，使这些公司在全球市场上更具竞争力。此外，如果成功的话，这个拟议的工具的开发将导致富有成效的尝试，开发和商业化的先进的规划和调度软件工具，可用于许多其他经济部门。

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.