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ARGOS Features and Benefits
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Features
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Advantages
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Benefits
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- Shipyard-specific optimization metric
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- Tailorable to different customers
- Adapts to changing needs
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- Rapid insertion into production
- Accommodates business change
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- Optimization inside production cycle
- More “what-if” analysis
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- Faster response to schedule disruptions
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- Minimal cost/minimal disruption options
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- Computes optimal staffing for given schedule choices
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- Allows optimal management of labor pool
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- Customizable tradeoff between schedule robustness and cost
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- Customers can control the level of slack and see what extra slack costs them
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- Emphasizes float where slippage is most damaging
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- Makes schedules more robust without unduly increasing cost
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- Good solutions available quickly
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- Computation effort & lead time responsive to situational needs
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- Better manpower management
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- Reduces levels of overtime and idle time
- Reduces staffing churn
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- Lower costs, less burden on workforce, better retention
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- Integration with existing shipyard scheduling software
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- No disruption to existing reporting and scheduling processes
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- Small integration costs
- Minimal training time and cost
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- Allows rapid assessment of schedule quality
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- Increased ability for schedulers and others to produce schedules with desired qualities
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