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The most advanced Intelligent Planning and Scheduling Solution available on the market today.

Aurora™ is the world’s leading intelligent planning and scheduling software solution that utilizes advanced artificial intelligence. It was originally developed to help NASA tackle difficult, mission-critical scheduling problems with complex constraints by incorporating the judgment and experience of expert human schedulers. Aurora is particularly effective when applied to large projects with complex constraints and resource requirements.

 

Over the last 25 years, an increasing number of organizations have chosen Aurora to manage operations more efficiently than any other system it has ever been compared to, and for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Aurora has proven vastly more powerful than any other solution including Microsoft Project and Primavera P3/P6 .

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Constraint Satisfaction

There are often multiple constraints that need to be satisfied like resource capacities, task dependies, deadlines, etc. Satisfying all constraints simultaneously can be very challenging especially as the number of tasks and constraints grows.

combinatorial explosion

The number of possible solutions grows exponentially as the number of tasks and resources increases, making it infeasible to do exhaustive search for the optimal schedule. This makes resource limited scheduling NP-hard.

Uncertainty

Real-world environments bring uncertainty in task durations, resource availability, etc. The schedule needs to be robust enough to provide good solutions despite these uncertainties.

Multi-Objective Tradeoffs

Different objectives like minimizing project length, maximizing resource utilization, minimizing cost, etc., may be desired. Finding optimal tradeoffs between these different objectives can be difficult.

dynamic environments

Resources or task requirements may change dynamically over time, and the schedule needs to be adjusted in real-time to account for these changes.

approaches used by others that aurora outperforms:

Discrete Event Simulation
Multi-grid, continuous-time formulations
Tabu Search Algorithm
Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Scheduling/Mixed Integer Mathematical Model
Genetic Algorithms
Iterative Two-Stage Decomposition Solution Strategy
  • Multiple-pass intelligent resource-constrained scheduling.
  • Mixed-mode scheduling.
  • Schedule Rationale.
  • Interface with other scheduling tools.
  • 64-bit version can divide projects into the hundreds of thousands of tasks.
  • Can be run as a web-based application or a standalone application under Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  • Supports complex human classifications (e.g., occupation plus various skills and/or certifications, and Aurora optimizes taking these into consideration.)
  • Supports more types of constraints beyond finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish, & start-to-finish, including ergonomic constraints, shift-based constraints, physical space constraints, and more.
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  • Project Portfolio Management (PPM) / Enterprise Resource Planning Optimization (ERPO): Aurora optimizes the resource planning of all of an enterprise’s resources across all projects.
  • Shortens projects by allocating resources more efficiently.
  • Saves the labor of human schedulers by automating what they do.
  • Enables more robust modeling of scheduling problems, so it can schedule projects automatically that other tools cannot even model.
  • Provides intelligent conflict resolution.
  • Provides explanations on why each activity/task was scheduled where it was, adding transparency.
  • Disruptions to the original plan including interjections of new tasks during execution are handled optimally.
  • Interfaces with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Siemens TeamCenter, Artemis, PSS, Open Plan, PS8, Oracle and other enterprise applications; to import, analyze, and export schedules.

Customer Success Stories

Automobile Industry

A major automobile manufacturer selected Aurora to optimize its vehicles for destructive and non-destructive crash testing.
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Mass General Hospital

Aurora is used by the Massachusetts General Hospital to schedule its medical residency program. Aurora reduces the time and effort needed to generate schedules and provides better support for the hospital’s complex staffing needs
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Pilot Training

Alaska Airlines uses Aurora to schedule their pilot training program. Aurora coordinates training across students in a class, prevents significant gaps in training, blocks out maintenance times, and more.
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Pfizer

Aurora-ProPlan is a component of the Intelligent based Manufacturing (IbM) initiative at Pfizer. It adds capabilities necessary to perform pharmaceutical production optimally.

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Audit Scheduling

TenA Company, founded in 1982, is the premier mortgage quality control service in the United States, assisting thousands of mortgage lenders each year. Among their carefully vetted personnel, are counted Legal & Compliance experts and a QC Solutions team.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is using Aurora to accelerate its production of Boeing 787 composite wing boxes.
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General Dynamics Electric Boat

Aurora is being leveraged by General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) for the scheduling of various aspects of submarine construction. In this way, GDEB is provided with intelligent scheduling capabilities not available in other project management software.
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The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company uses Aurora to prioritize the production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner™. Aurora’s dynamic assembly schedule adapts to real-time production variations, so Boeing can produce aircraft as efficiently as possible.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), selected Aurora for its unique capabilities including intelligent resource scheduling to improve their project management, offering both increased throughput and greater project transparency.
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United Space Alliance

The United Space Alliance included Aurora in the design of Temporis, a scheduling system targeted for use by NASA crew members on board next generation spacecraft during deep space missions.
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Dental Student Scheduling

New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry uses Aurora to create dental student schedules, including scheduling student courses while accounting for clinical rotations, course requirements, and special events.
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NASA: Space Shuttle

Aurora/AMP, which was in service for 18 years at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, generated short- and long-term (10-year) schedules for ground-based activities that prepared and refurbished Space Shuttles before and after each flight.
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Navy Submarine Support

The US Navy has selected Aurora-CCPM™ software to schedule maintenance operations at the Naval Submarine Support Facility (NSSF).
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Air Force Satellite Scheduling

The Aurora intelligent scheduling framework has been applied to Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN) scheduling to create an automatic scheduling and deconfliction capability called MIDAS.
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Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI)

Aurora helps Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) schedule production of composite parts for Boeing’s Dreamliner.
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Bombardier Learjet

Aurora helps Bombardier Learjet schedule their airplane assembly operations more quickly, so they can handle production rate changes and component delivery delays more effectively.
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