| All Carmen products share certain basic components: an optimizer, a modelling language for legality, costs and quality (Carmen Rave), a report generator (Carmen Rave Publisher) and full customization abilities of system details.
The optimizer makes it possible to rapidly test many different scenarios, and control important solution properties (e.g. minimizing costs for hotels, per diem and passive travel, limiting the use of crew changes, distributing production correctly to different bases and creating multibase pairings to increase solution robustness). Coupled with Carmen Rave the optimizer makes it possible to set up and meet the desired trade-off between costs, stability and quality.
The Rave language handles legality as well as quality and cost aspects. The use varies from adding new quality control parameters and carrying out minor simulations, to rewriting and evaluating entire agreements. Our clients appreciate the short lead times for introducing changes to the system. But an even more important aspect is that Rave allows changes to be made by the client. Because new rules or quality constraints can be tested within a few hours, this puts the client in direct control of an ever-changing operation.
The report generator enables reports to be added at any time (e.g. cost statistics, stability statistics and hotel bookings). Reports can be displayed on screen or on paper. The report generator also creates text data files that can be used to interface surrounding systems.
With Rave, the client can constantly change quality, legality and cost aspects. The report generator makes it possible to add new reports. Colours and objects in the graphic user interface can also be customized to visualize a solution’s most important features.
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