INTRODUCTION
POMG focuses on operations research and system analysis technologies for effective management of manufacturing and supply chain operations to achieve higher productivity. POMG technologies enable companies to collaboratively manage business activities and seamlessly integrate their manufacturing operations with their partners in the supply chain. These operations research technologies leverage the internet of things and other communication tools to create solutions that specifically meet the needs of today’s complex and dynamic business environment.
The group carries out collaborative research with academic institutions and provides technology transfer and training to the manufacturing industry.
TECHNOLOGIES FOR LICENSING AND TRANSFER
- Real-time Planning and scheduling
- Adaptive and robust production planning & scheduling
- Real-time production and manpower scheduling for smart factories
- Integrated shopfloor, tracking & manpower with rescheduling capabilities
- Supply & Demand Planning
- Intelligent demand forecasting with uncertainty modelling
- Irregular and intermittent demand prediction
- Inventory planning for optimising performance targets including inventory position, inventory turns, and fill rate
- Last Mile Logistics Management
- Vehicle routing engine based on multi-objective optimisation algorithms using AI to manage a fleet of vehicles to serve a number of geographically distributed customers with the lowest operational cost, travel time and fuel consumption
- Data analytics platform that ingests information from multiple sources with the objective of driving enterprise efficiency and enabling tracking visibility of jobs/goods, personnel and vehicles
- Integrating vehicle routing engine with mobile app and planner web app
- Supply Chain Track & Trace
- A plug & play AutoID-based technology for better managing, tracking, audit, stock taking, picking and verifying the inventory items to improve productivity and traceability, as well as minimise human errors
- A plug & play technology for effective tracking, managing of collection and delivery tasks, as well as resources in real-time, based on cloud, mobile and Auto ID technologies
- Business Process Automation
- Digitalising manual processes
- An intelligent workflow engine which allows users to configure various business workflows
- Offline digitalised forms on android devices
- “What-if” Modelling & Simulation Analysis
- Production modelling and simulation
- Online simulation
- Facility layout planning
- Supply chain disruption risk mitigation