Actenum and CSC secure joint project to automate scheduling in large infrastructure environments
Vancouver BC, 23-Sep-10
Actenum Corporation announced today that it has secured a joint project with CSC's Applied Technology Group, which will apply its collaborative decision support and schedule optimization software to operations and maintenance activities in large infrastructure environments.
Supported by funding from Ottawa-based Precarn, Inc., the work will focus on providing automated support for scheduling ongoing operations at large US federal facilities. Currently, in these environments, multiple human and equipment resources are assigned to a wide range of operational activities using a manual approach. This is time-consuming, subject to continual change, and may lead to schedule conflicts, resource overloading, deadline violations, and budgeting challenges.
Actenum's decision-support and schedule optimization software will provide large infrastructure environments with automated and interactive scheduling capabilities, enabling users to create and evaluate multiple schedule scenarios much more rapidly than is currently possible. As well, users will be able to perform ‘what if?’ and trade-off analysis on schedules to determine how to allocate resources in specific situations, and will optimize schedules in various ways—for example, to maximize equipment utilization while minimizing costs and contention—against a variety of user-defined key performance indicators.
The work is expected to be completed in late 2010.
“A large infrastructure environment, such as an aviation maintenance and repair facility, or specialized manufacturing location, is inherently dynamic and requires rapid and effective scheduling to ensure that jobs are completed on time and on budget,” said Paul Maurer, Actenum's CEO. “Coupling our schedule optimization software to CSC's infrastructure support services will improve decision-making and efficiency, as well as delivering tangible cost savings to their customers.”