The problem
Factories pay more when machines peak at the wrong time, yet schedules ignore tariffs.
What to build
Build a scheduler that balances deadlines with time-of-day power cost and machine constraints.
Success looks like
A schedule that meets deadlines at lower simulated cost than first-come-first-served.
Suggested technologies
- Constraint programming
- Optimisation
- Tariff modelling
- Simulation
- Visualisation
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