CAP-SCHED
Competitive Advantage for Process-intensive industries by SCheduling with Heuristics-EnhanceD simulation & optimisation
| Coordinatore | PRINCEPS SARL
Organization address
address: Rue de Berri 38 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | France [FR] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.capsched.eu |
| Totale costo | 1˙039˙105 € |
| EC contributo | 773˙982 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2007-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2008 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2008-10-01 - 2011-03-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
PRINCEPS SARL
Organization address
address: Rue de Berri 38 contact info |
FR (Paris) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
BIOINGENIERIA MEDIOAMBIENTAL SL
Organization address
address: CALLE ILDEFONSO SANCHEZ DEL RIO 2 contact info |
ES (POLA DE SIERO) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
CENTRALE RECHERCHE SA
Organization address
address: Rue Jean Goujon 8 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
GENENCOR INTERNATIONAL BVBA
Organization address
address: Komvest 43 contact info |
BE (Brugge) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
Hogeschool Gent
Organization address
address: JOZEF KLUYSKENSSTRAAT 2 contact info |
BE (GENT) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
Institut Telecom
Organization address
address: RUE BARRAULT 46 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
MANOPT SYSTEMS LTD
Organization address
address: "Mg Hayes & Co., Annacotty Business park, Annacotty ." contact info |
IE (LIMERICK) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER SYSTEM S.R.L.
Organization address
address: Largo Caleotto 1 contact info |
IT (LECCO LC) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
TECNOLOGIAS AVANZADAS INSPIRALIA SL
Organization address
address: CALLE MIGUEL VILLANUEVA 2 6 PISO PUERTA 3 contact info |
ES (LOGRONO) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'A competitive weapon for companies in process-intensive industries such as the chemical industry, is effective mastery of supply chain management from raw material to end product so as to improve efficiency, effectiveness, & profitability. However, in flow scheduling, the human operator can be overwhelmed by the complexity of the problem. CAP-SCHED involves developing a new intelligent scheduling system for companies in continuous/semi-continuous process industries. The innovative solution uses a multi-agent framework to combine 2 existing approaches which, individually, are inadequate to improve scheduling. However, combining both approaches offers significant improvements to implement more profitable solutions to scheduling problems, with better account taken of constraints. The 2 approaches are: 1. Simulation through trial & error: * The scheduler instructs the system to calculate all material flows in terms of quantity & quality from up- to down-stream throughout the plant; * If infeasibility occurs (e.g. capacity limitation…) then the planner readjusts parameters in trial & error mode to reach a feasible solution. and 2. Algorithmic constraint solving: * the problem is represented as a mathematical model & the system attempts a solution, helped by heuristic guesses so as to guide the search algorithm via domain knowledge. The new idea is to allow full interaction with the system via a Graphical User Interface as if running in simulation mode, & to translate instructions, when the value of an operating parameter (or the starting date of an event…) is fixed, in terms of constraints imposed in the mathematical model. Thus, the person responsible for scheduling can choose to fix variable values, and to let the system find those left free so as to reach a feasible solution. Overall, the solution will drastically reduce the need for multiple planning/scheduling loops so as to achieve a consistently optimised solution with improved profitability.'