Integrated Decision Support and Optimization

ICT Roadmap For Minerals & Energy Resources: Industry Roundtable - 16 Oct 2013 James Balzary

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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:• 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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Close to customers, R&D teams take into account local specification & preferences.

6 R&D hubs

Monterrey

Boston

Bangalore

Shanghai

Grenoble

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

Managing the Complexity

Science and Optimisation

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SolveIT – Optimisation Techniques

Nano Quadrotors Swarm – University of Pennsylvania

Evolved Virtual Creatures – Karl Sims

●Genetic Algorithms

●Simulated Annealing

●Hybrid Neural Networks

●Evolutionary Strategies

●Hill-Climbers●Ant Systems●Tabu Search●Evolutionary

Programming

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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-day-lives … 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

Other Industries

What can Mining, Oil and gas learn?

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Wine Supply Chain

PUSH PULL

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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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