Monthly Archives: July 2010

I’ve added two three new entries in the menu at the top: Classification A classification scheme based on an old paper of mine. Current topics are Assignment, Scheduling, Transport, Personnel, Network and Other. Constraint Systems lists all constraint programming languages … Continue reading →

Posted on July 31, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Intelligent Cabling System for Buildings

Posted on July 28, 2010 by

This post describes one of the early industrial CHIP applications, the LOCARIM system presented in “Serge Bourgault, Jean Pierre LePape, Gregor Baues, Frederic Deces, Daniel Mailharro, Frederique Terk. LOCARIM – Software for Designing Network Cabling in Buildings. In the 4th … Continue reading →

Posted in 1994, 43 Specialized Construction Activities, 43.1 Electrical, plumbing and other construction installation activities, CHIP, CHIP Users Club, F Construction, Network, product/multiple installations | Leave a comment

Planning Catering Personnel for TGV Trains

Posted on July 27, 2010 by

The EPPER application was developed for the French catering firm Servair to manage their personnel assignment for the restaurant and bar services in the TGV Atlantique. This TGV service runs from Paris to Rennes, Nantes and Bordeaux and continues to … Continue reading →

Posted in 1996, 49 Land Transport, 49.1 Passenger rail transport, 56 Food and beverage service activities, 56.1 Restaurants and mobile food service activities, CHIP, CHIP Users Club, H Transportation and Storage, I Accommodation and Food Services, live application, Personnel, Transport | Leave a comment

Building Fighter Aircraft

Posted on July 26, 2010 by

Most scheduling tools are intended for operational use, to control the sequence of production in a factory on a day-to-day basis. The MOSES application described before is a good example of such an operational tool. The PLANE system described in … Continue reading →

Posted in 1992, 30 Manufacture of other transport equipment, 30.3 Manufacture of air and space craft, C Manufacturing, CHIP, CP Conference, ECLiPSe, Practical Applications Conferences, product/multiple installations, Scheduling | Leave a comment

Car Sequencing

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

Henry Ford is often quoted as saying: “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.” In the early years of using assembly lines for his model T, uniformity of product … Continue reading →

Posted in 1988, 29 Manufacture of vehicles and trailers, 29.1 Manufacture of motor vehicles, benchmark, C Manufacturing, CHIP, ECAI, Scheduling | Leave a comment

PS Plate Manufacturing

Posted on July 20, 2010 by

I was involved in this project for Mitsubishi Chemical in Japan, but the project was still ongoing when I left COSYTEC. The initial design for the CHIP part of the system was done by Gregor Baues and myself. I’m basing … Continue reading →

Posted in 2002, 25 Fabricated metal products, 25.6 Treatment and coating of metals, C Manufacturing, CHIP, live application, Scheduling | Leave a comment

More on Crude Blend Optimization

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

I’ve got some feedback from careful readers noting that I did not explain the crude blending optimization problem very well. I thought I would get away with it   I’ll try to do better, becoming a bit more technical. By … Continue reading →

Posted in 19 Coke and refined petroleum, 19.2 Refined petroleum products, C Manufacturing, CHIP, product/multiple installations, Scheduling | Leave a comment

More on Stand Allocation

Posted on July 19, 2010 by

Last week I talked about airport stand allocation, the parking problem for airplanes at an airport. Over the weekend I dug out the original publication for this problem, a joint paper with Mehmet Dincbas on the APACHE Demonstrator for Air … Continue reading →

Posted in 1991, 51 Air Transport, 51.1 Passenger Air Transport, Assignment, ASTAIR, CHIP, H Transportation and Storage, prototype | Leave a comment

Oil Refinery Scheduling

Posted on July 16, 2010 by

Oil refineries are quite likely the most complex factories for which I have ever developed constraint-based scheduling tools. They often consist of over 50 distinct processing units, each specialized for a particular task in converting crude oil into gasoline, kerosene … Continue reading →

Posted in 19 Coke and refined petroleum, 19.2 Refined petroleum products, 1999, C Manufacturing, CHIP, product/multiple installations, Scheduling | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Operational and Strategic Manpower Assignment for RFO

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

The OPTISERVICE Application was developed by COSYTEC and the software house GIST for RFO, the French Radio and TV network for its overseas departements. RFO retransmit the metropolitan TV and radio programmes in the overseas departements (time shifted as required … Continue reading →

Posted in 1997, 60 Broadcasting, 60.1 Radio Broadcasting, 60.2 TV Broadcasting, CHIP, J Information and Communications, Personnel, product/multiple installations | Leave a comment