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Integrated Decision Support
and Optimization
ICT Roadmap For Minerals & Energy Resources:
Industry Roundtable - 16 Oct 2013
James Balzary
Decision Support
Businesses are most interested in two fundamental things:
• Knowing what is likely to happen in the future (prediction); and
• Making the best decision right now (optimization).
SolveIT Software specialises in innovative software
addressing these fundamental needs for enterprise supply
chains:
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Planning & Scheduling
Simulation
Optimisation Science
Predictive modelling; and
Execution
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Schneider Electric innovates through its
11 000 technical and R&D engineers
located across the world.
3800 Software and Solutions Development Engineers
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6 R&D hubs
Close to customers, R&D teams take into account local specification &
preferences.
Grenoble
Boston
Shanghai
Monterrey
Bangalore
Adelaide
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Integrated Supply Chain and
Decision Support Platform
Material
Logistics
Processing
Plants
Finished
Product
Inventory
Warehouse
Demand
Planning
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The Challenges?
• Non-standardized processes
• Lack of visibility/understanding of knock on
effect for upstream/downstream activities
• “Silo” rather than “whole of business”
thinking
• Significant constraints and business rules
• Dynamic environment with push/pull factors
• Process and event variability
• COMPLEXITY
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Managing the Complexity
Science and Optimisation
SolveIT – Optimisation Techniques
● Genetic
Algorithms
● Simulated
Annealing
● Hybrid Neural
Networks
● Evolutionary
Strategies
● Hill-Climbers
● Ant Systems
● Tabu Search
● Evolutionary
Programming
Evolved Virtual Creatures – Karl Sims
Nano Quadrotors Swarm – University of Pennsylvania
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Optimisation Runs The World
● “You might not have heard of the
algorithm that runs the world. Few
people have, though it can determine
much that goes on in our day-to-daylives … Somewhere, in some server
basement right now, it is probably
working on some aspect of your life
tomorrow, next week, in a year’s
time”.
● “Probably tens or hundreds of
thousands of calls are made … every
minute”
New Scientist magazine, 11 August 2012
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The Future of Optimisation
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Other Industries
What can Mining, Oil and gas learn?
Wine Supply Chain
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Wine Supply Chain Planning: Typical
Solution
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From Block to Bottle
“Resource to Market” is
the new paradigm
from a systems point
of view.
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Thankyou