How Automotive Suppliers Can Effectively Plan Their Network of Plants When Relocating Production
Relocating production within a network of plants is more than just a matter of capacity. The key factor is whether service, costs, and transformation align.
How Automotive Suppliers Ensure Feasible Detailed Planning in the Face of Last-Minute Changes to Order Calls
A prioritized task affects more than one slot in the schedule. The key is to determine which sequence still works given real-world constraints.
Interview: Rolling Capacity Planning: Planning for Internal Combustion Engines and Electric Mobility Together
How automotive suppliers plan capacity across their plants for internal combustion engines and e-mobility despite uncertain demand—with OPTANO and Gurobi.
Insights: Production Planning in Response to Changes in Demand
Changes in demand require quick responses. At the same time, effective production planning determines which scheduled processes will remain unchanged.
Dr. Kostja Siefen
Insights: How Production Planning Turns Scarcity into a Transparent Decision
Material shortages in production planning cannot be eliminated through planning alone. However, scarce parts can be evaluated transparently and allocated to customer orders in a traceable manner.
Bachelor's/Master's Thesis: LLMs as Interfaces for Complex Software
Sounds interesting? Here’s the specific research question: LLMs as an intelligent user interface for complex optimization and analysis software. Traditional chatbot interfaces allow free-form text input but do not adequately capture the actual usage contexts of complex specialized software. It remains to be seen which forms of interaction are better suited for demanding analytical tasks. In particular, the question arises as to whether LLM-based interfaces are not merely reactive to user inputs […]
Bachelor's/Master's Thesis: LLMs for Data Entry and Data Quality
Sound interesting? Here’s the specific research question: Using LLMs to support data entry, data validation, and data quality analysis. In many optimization and analysis applications, the key bottleneck is not the modeling itself, but rather the structured and high-quality collection of input data. LLMs promise to assist in converting unstructured information into structured inputs, as well as in the automatic derivation of […]
Bachelor's/Master's Thesis: LLMs and Operations Research: Benchmarking for an OPTANO Decision Catalog
Sound interesting? Here’s the specific research question: Benchmarking LLM features related to OR software to derive an OPTANO decision catalog for various use cases. OPTANO already solves the actual operations research scenario. The research question is therefore not whether LLMs can replace the optimization problem, but rather in which accompanying use cases they provide reliable added value. The aim is to investigate how well various LLM features […]
Insights: When Low Water Levels Become a Planning Challenge
Low water levels are affecting the supply of raw materials in the chemical industry. What matters is not a single alternative transport route, but the coordinated interplay of capacities, inventories, and production priorities.