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The logistic and industrial processes request the use of optimization procedures with high performance. They need swift and flexible algorithms. The traditional technologies are in crisis because of very high number of solutions. New tools & methods, studied in research centers worldwide and based on genetic algorithms of new generation, are necessary.

The utilization of these sophisticated optimization tools allow both to optimize the logistic and industrial processes and to reduce the incidence of the costs, and above all to valuate risk, benefits and costs associated to alternative scenarios. These intelligent systems are revolutionizing the world of transports, production and data mining optimization, securing more competitive performance.

Vehicle Routing

Modern logistic systems are more and more put under stress by increasing demand on transport and mobility. The human decision maker cannot face the dimension of problems which grow in a combinatorial fashion. AntOptima algorithms can provide an answer using optimization methods based on Ant Colony Optimization.

AntRoute

AntRoute is a software for large scale dynamic optimization of vehicle routes and fleets. It is the result of the joint work between AntOptima, a Swiss company specialized in innovative and high-performance optimization algorithms, and a group of international distribution companies, leaders in their market.

AntNgage

AntNgage is a forthcoming AntOptima product. Keep an eye on this space.

Tour Planner

Tour Planner is a software tool for the dynamic optimisation of vehicle routes and logistic flows, especially designed for the needs of SMEs.

OptiMilk

OptiMilk is the software application for the management and optimization of milk distribution. OptiMilk, thanks to an integrated approach to the various sides of the problem, allows to: optimize the use of the vehicle fleet; improve the milk supply process from the local breeders; forecast the customers' consumption and reduce the distribution costs; improve the efficiency (less miles, less time, more deliveries); increase customer satisfaction, thanks to real time management of urgent deliveries.

DyvOil

DyvOil is the software application for the management and optimization of heating oil distribution. DyvOil handles the distribution logistics thanks to an integrated approach to the various sides of the problem, optimizing the vehicle fleet usage, forecasting customer consumption, improving the distribution efficiency. All of this leads to a sensible reduction in the costs and a noticeable improvement in the customers? satisfaction, since they are served more timely and more efficiently. DyvOil employs the innovative algorithms inspired by Ant Colonies, developed by Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale within the framework of a project sponsored by the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation. These algorithms learn from experience and can adapt to unforeseen situations. They can solve in just a few minutes problems that are otherwise intractable with traditional methods.

OptiPark

The management and optimization of urban distribution of goods is a complex task. The major problem is that most dedicated management systems do not take into account commercial traffic information in their models and this can lead to gross errors in estimating travel times on road segments, due to the lack of knowledge of possible congestions in front of delivery points by a number of concurrent delivery operations. The recent European Project MOSCA (2001-2004): "Decision Support System For Integrated Door-To-Door Delivery: Planning and Control in Logistic Chains" aimed at improving the management of urban traffic providing assets to both commercial transport operators and to city traffic managers. The former will be able to access state-of-the-art vehicle routing algorithms which make use of privileged traffic information provided by the city administration. The latter will use the information on planned deliveries to mitigate the effects and smooth the traffic flow, reducing both the economical and the environmental impact. OptiPark is inspired by the same design principles emerged in MOSCA. The idea is to provide efficient solution to the urban transport operators by sharing information about the distribution process between the different involved actors. OptiPark is a multi-user web-based application that allows both manual and automated scheduling of parking bays in the centre of the city. The Application includes a users/bays/depots administration.

OptiCollect

Nell'ambito della raccolta di rifiuti, AntOptima fornisce OptiCollect, un sistema innovativo per l’ottimizzazione della raccolta di rifiuti ingombranti in ambito urbano. OptiCollect consiste in sei moduli principali: gestione cartografia; gestione ordini; gestione mezzi; ottimizzazione on-line; ottimizzazione off-line; statistiche di sistema.

Scheduling

Often production processes are the bottleneck in logistic chains. We offer a variety of advanced scheduling tools to remove bottlenecks and streamline your production schedule.

AntPlan

AntPlan is a new generation software tool for real time planning and simulation of industrial production. All production stages can be optimised, monitored and controlled, and simulated in order to rapidly increase its performance. It can be either used as an automated planner, fully integrated in the production process, or as a support tool to assist decision making at the management level. AntPlan can optimize production thanks to an advanced scheduling algorithm, which can also handle unexpected events (new orders, unprogrammed maintenance, breakdowns) within a few seconds of computation. AntPlan offers a wide array of visualisation options, including Gantt charts. AntPlan can also simulate alternative production scenarios, in order to define plans that are efficient and robust.

Data Mining

Data can be a strategic source of information. The process of knowledge discovery in databases allows valuable patterns and regularities to be discovered from the data alone. The knowledge so extracted is fundamental and leads to constructing systems of prediction, diagnosis and pattern recognition.

Tansportation & Logistics

Most of the daily problems in transportation and logistics that companies have to deal with need effective and efficient solutions in short times. Thanks to numerous years of theoretical and applicative researches and to the concrete experience in this field, AntOptima is able to offer consulting, recognized at an international level, in distribution and logistics, in intermodal and urban transportation.

cybHotel

The smart hotel, managed completely in an electronic way. From the reservation process, to your check-out, everything is carried out automatically 24 hours a day, 7 days a week assuring complete discretion, affordable prices, but without giving up comfort, peace and harmony.

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Case History

Thanks to the features and to the efficiency of our solutions, important logistic and industrial companies are shift to a logic of optimization and cutting costs. It's difficult to be complete with respect to the different proposals and realized solutions, but a short sign of our references can give a better idea of the possibility that the experience and the know-how of our experts can supply.

Transportation & Logistics

AntOptima offers more and more services to its customers in line with the market requirements through consulting activity and in collaboration with important companies in the field of transportations and logistics at a national and international level.

Carnini Spa

Carnini, born in the '30 as a milk station, developed and broadened its business in the following years since to arrive at the beginnings of the '90 to diversify its activity and to offer different typologies of products derived from milk but not only. It has about 4.500 customers situated in West Lombardia and East Piemonte, represented for 70% from the GDO and for the remaining 30% from the detail. Based on historical data available and considering the particular features of the distributive process, Carnini, thanks to AntRoute, decided to reorganize the goods distribution itineraries minimizing the number of vehicles used. The goal is to analyze periodically Carnini distributive process in order to find out margin of enhancement/improvements and to agree by the utilization of sophisticated technical of optimization to improve the fleet efficiency. The same technologies will be used as a simulation tool to evaluate the costs and the risks associated to alternate distribution sceneries.

City of Parma

In the context of the CityPort European project for the urban distribution of goods in the City of Parma, AntOptima develops OptiPark, an innovative client/server system for the dynamic optimization of parking bays in the centre of the city of Parma. A number of dedicated parking bays are spread in the city centre in order to perform the delivery operations as close as possible to the destination points (shops, mini-markets, etc). Every day, transportation operators try to access autonomously these parking bays, but it often happens that when an operator arrives at a parking bay, he cannot use it because someone else has already taken it. In this case, either the operator stands by the bay waiting for his turn (possibly causing traffic jams) or he goes on performing other deliveries in the city (if any) before coming back and trying again to park (thus increasing the traffic flow). Actually, there is also the possibility that the operator does not wait and performs anyway the delivery (without using the dedicated bay), but this again could lead to traffic jams. Hence, the main problem is the lack of coordination between the transportation operators when they act autonomously. OptiPark is a tool that allows managing such a coordination providing the possibility of booking the parking bay using a standard web browser. Any transportation operator can have an overview of the occupation of the bays along the day as well as make bay reservations for his own needs.

SEAMLESS

SEAMLESS, an EU FP6 Integrated Project, aims at generating an integrated framework of computer models. This framework can be used for assessment of how future alternative agricultural and environmental polices affect sustainable development in Europe. The Integrated Project SEAMLESS aims at the generation of an integrated framework with computer models and approaches for ex-ante assessment of alternative agricultural and environmental policy options for sustainable development in Europe. The project has been set up in response to a research and policy need formulated by the European Commission. SEAMLESS proposes an integrated and operational framework, SEAMLESS-IF. This computer system will include quantitative models that simulate effects of the biophysical environment and economic developments, next to procedures that enable assessment of the qualitative aspects such as quality of life and visual landscape quality. The latest developments in Information Technology (IT) will facilitate the integration of models from a wide range of scientific domains. Interactive identification of the key indicators (e.g. for environmental pollution, economic performance or social acceptability) that can capture the relevant information associated with specific policy questions will be crucial.

Number1 Logistic Group Spa

Number 1 Logistics Group is Italian logistic broker leader in grocery with 400.000.000 of necks managed, 2.500.000 delivers for about 2.100.000 tons, 250.000.000 of km traveled in a year, 2.600 vehicles and 110.000 customers served. At the beginning its activity was born to distribute Barilla's products in different depots and supermarkets and to transport the grain from the production areas to the productive sites. Once activated this logistic process, it has thought to develop it by offering the same service to other companies that should transport goods in the same depots and in the same supermarkets. Number 1 chose AntOptima for the automatization of the route creation phase and for the optimization of the goods distribution. The goal is to maximize the transportations efficiency respecting the constraints on the opening time of the different depots and the limits established from the law on the travel times of each vehicle. The routes considered cover the whole Italy with services in one, two and sometimes three days.

Migros

Migros is the most important supermarkets chain in Switzerland. It manages 600 point of sales everyday. The vehicles fleet is composed of 150 - 200 non-homogeneous vehicles, i.e. vehicles with different features in term of length, number of axles, and weight; these features constrain the range of road types and shop locations which can be visited by a given truck. Visits to Migros' shops are also constrained in time, since deliveries to the shops' stores must be made within a specified time window, agreed in advance with the store management. Recently Migros decided to centralise colonial goods distribution in the new hub store located in Suhr, closing the seven regional centers. This project changed the distribution scenery: from seven centers that distributed goods locally has passed to a unique logistic center with the goal to distribute directly in the whole Switzerland. AntRoute is a system that automatically optimizes the routes of the trucks leaving Migros hub distribution centers. AntRoute is a breakthrough product in the field of vehicle routing applications. It is based on the Ant Colony Optimization metaheuristic which can solve in a few minutes the problem of the proper sequencing of hundreds of freight deliveries.

Pina Petroli SA

With many years of experience, Pina Petroli SA is now a constant presence in Ticino economy. The development that the company knew from 1949, year of its foundation, is quite visible in the dimension of the depot of Grancia, with fifteen great tanks, twelve vehicles and thirty employees. These technical and human resources make Pina Petroli a leader in the area, profit in heating oil distribution in whole Ticino and Grigioni southern valley. Everyday Pina Petroli carries out hundred of deliveries, satisfying the customers' needs and their details. Since always Pina Petroli looks with trust at the new technologies. For this reason Pina Petroli chose AntOptima to develop new technologies in order to optimize transportations and to serve the customer with always greater efficiency and precision.

Metaheuristics Network

The Metaheuristics Network is a project sponsored by the Improving Human Potential program of the European Community (HPRN-CT-1999-00106). The activities of the Metaheuristics Network started in September 2000 and were accomplished in August 2004. Nowadays metaheuristics are widely used to solve important practical combinatorial optimization problems. However, due to the variety of techniques and concepts comprised by metaheuristics, there is still no commonly agreed definition for metaheuristics. The definition used in the Metaheuristics Network is the following. A metaheuristic is a set of concepts that can be used to define heuristic methods that can be applied to a wide set of different problems. In other words, a metaheuristic can be seen as a general algorithmic framework which can be applied to different optimization problems with relatively few modifications to make them adapted to a specific problem. Examples of metaheuristics include simulated annealing (SA), tabu search (TS), iterated local search (ILS), evolutionary algorithms (EC), and ant colony optimization (ACO). Although metaheuristics are widely used techniques, the how and why they work effectively for specific problems and for others not, is still not well understood. The overall goal of the Metaheuristics Network is to increase our understanding of metaheuristics, to propose new ways of structuring metaheuristic components, and to evaluate their contribution to metaheuristics behavior as well as to use the extracted information for the development of new hybrid metaheuristics.