Optimal control systems

“There are two ways to improve the efficiency of a workshop, an enterprise, and an entire industry. One way is various improvements in technology,.... Another way, so far much less used, is to improve the production organization and planning”

Leonid V. Kantorovich, Soviet mathematician and economist, one of the founders of linear programming. In 1975, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to the theory of optimal resource allocation.

Borlas Group performs custom-made development and subsequent implementation of a wide class of optimal planning / control systems using a modern mathematical apparatus powered by dedicated platform, IBM Decision Optimization Center, and free software.

Key features:

• IBM Decision Optimization Center is a dedicated environment for developing, maintaining and operating highly complex optimal planning systems;
• Using the high-level language OPL (optimization programming language) for the mathematical description of optimization models;
• Best solvers for:
  • math programming (IBM ILOG CPLEX: LP, IP, MIP, QP, MIQP, and some types of NLP);
  • Combinatorial optimization (IBM ILOG CP).
• Computing and processing management to enhance optimization capabilities;
• Development of additional heuristics;
• Creating complex hybrid optimization models using solvers for math programming and combinatorial optimization;
• Using the latest decomposition methods for high-dimensional systems;
• Development of automated working positions (AWPs) for participants in planning and optimization processes;
• Multiprocessing, configuring computing clusters;
• Scenario analysis is a standard functionality of the platform and represents coordinated (integrated) plans for a given planning horizon, as well as alternatives (what-if analysis). The functionality of the system makes it possible to support an unlimited number of business scenarios with the possibility to adjust input parameters (rates, tariffs, capacities, etc.);
• Calculation, storage and visual comparison of optimization results based on mathematical and statistical modeling for several business scenarios;
• Displaying the plan on charts of various types (including the Gantt chart);
• Setting the objective function, constraints, types of algorithms used (optimization strategies) when solving optimization problems;
• Iteration logging when solving optimization problems;
• Advanced visualization tools, intuitive user interface;
• Creation of customized user interfaces, including your own arbitrary forms of output data presentation;
• Differentiation of access rights at the level of system functions.

Key benefits:

• Experts of the Operations Research direction at Borlas Group will create, fine-tune and implement a wide range of business tasks of different classes and complexity on your request:
  • Product schedule (PS);
  • Advanced planning and scheduling (AP&S);
  • Sales and operations planning (S&OP);
  • Supply chain management (SCM);
  • Integrated business planning (IBP);
  • Other dedicated systems and individual tasks requiring the search for the optimum.
• The use of a single dedicated platform makes it possible to run a project from the development of mathematical models, the development of databases, user workplaces to testing and deploying commercial server. After implementation, the project together with several working and commercial environments are transferred to the customer;
• Easy to learn and use standard scheduler functionality (working with scripts, creating workspaces, security, etc.);
• Russian interface available;
• Fault-tolerance, reliability and high performance solvers for fast execution of planning tasks, resource management, etc.;
• Best business results possible guaranteed by the use of advanced mathematical models and algorithms (multi-criteria optimization, support for an unlimited number of business scenarios, etc.);
• Optimizing and improving the quality of the planning process;
• Better management of resources (capital costs, personnel, equipment, vehicles, etc.);
• Maximizing profits, improving return on investment (ROI);
• Risk reduction, assessment of the consequences of the decision for various aspects of the company's work;
• Minimizing cost, reducing the impact of negative factors;
• Making informed management decisions.