One in five companies surveyed say that significant manual effort and traditional spreadsheets are used for production planning and optimization.

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Expected outcomes of this research include equipping members with the ability to improve planning and reliability of operations through the use of prediction and optimization in the areas of outage and asset management.

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He sees the potential for Watson cousins customized with analytics for traffic-pattern optimization and emergency planning devoid of the emotions that bedevil mere people.

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Iterating the design and manufacturing planning as the chip evolves toward production allows for the optimization of both.

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