Our approach can be summed up by three simple ideas which have far-reaching consequences: Tradition, Innovation and Passion to Deliver.
Our Philosophy is that clearly, no single technique, algorithm, model or product will ever fit such a wide range of applications and customers. Rather, we have developed a wide knowledge and experience of the optimisation techniques and tools that are available. We know what sort of algorithms work well for different types of problem – the choices of solution methods for a vehicle routing problem are quite different to those applicable to scheduling a production line, for example. We have experience of how these algorithms and models typically scale with problem size – some techniques are very good for smaller problems but can’t cope with large problems, while a different approach may be more complex to implement but will allow large problems to be solved reliably.