Optimal scheduling of car manufacturing post-production assembly operations
Toyota post-production activity planning
The scheduling of post-production activities is complex because:
The installation activities require specific resources, They require versatile operators’ skills, They are spread among different shifts, Vehicles have delivery deadlines.
Therefore, a careful scheduling of work orders is needed to ensure smooth and optimized operations.
A Toyota post-production assembly workshop.
Artelys operational computation module
In order to improve the scheduling process of the following day’s activities, Artelys has developed an operational computation module deployed as a micro-service that is directly integrated into the application developed in-house by TME for their planning processes.
The developed module schedules the activities of the following day while optimising several metrics using Artelys Kalis, a constraint-programming solver with an interface dedicated to scheduling problems. The process of creating the following day’s schedule has been improved by replacing a tedious manual Excel process and has been shortened from approximately 2.5 hours to less than 30 minutes, while building solutions of better quality.
The computing speed allows for intra-day re-scheduling whenever a contingency occurs, as Artelys’ solution allows to schedule up to thousands of tasks in less than a minute. The solution is in use 7 days a week and is progressively deployed in all TME workshops.
If you want to know more about Artelys optimization services, check out our dedicated web page or contact us!
Publication of the PEPS5 study on storage for the ATEE
— ATEE has published the PEPS5 study report, a study evaluating the interest of storing electricity, heat and cold and of P2G in France by 2030 and 2050, carried out by Artelys and CEA-Liten.
2023 training sessions
— Make a good resolution for 2023 and join Artelys’ trainings!
INSULAE H2020 – Artelys has organised a training session on the investment planning tool to support the decarbonization of EU islands
— On the 2nd and 3rd of November, Artelys has organised a training session for the INSULAE H2020 project partners dedicated to the Investment Planning Tool (IPT), a software solution leveraging the Artelys Crystal platform and used to represent insular systems and their specificities. The tool is currently being developed by Artelys within the INSULAE project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant Agreement No 824433.
Artelys Knitro 13.2: increased robustness for MINLP
— We are pleased to announce that Artelys Knitro 13.2 is now available! This new version focuses on robustness improvements for mixed-integer general nonlinear programs (MINLP).
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