Infomace International initially took the decision to become involved in Computational Intelligence for ONE PRIME REASON:
Infomace recognised, with one of its New Zealand Dairy Industry clients, that efficient tanker scheduling would save a great deal of money.
It looked at the problem, and at what software was available worldwide, but there was nothing that truly functioned as needed.
Infomace considered using traditional programming techniques to develop a system, but it did not feel it would produce adequate results.
So Infomace decided to turn to the science of Computational Intelligence:
At the outset, Infomace identified that Computational Intelligence would bring the latest in optimisation, statistics and scientific programming out of the universities and into the real world. Computational Intelligence offers full solutions to problems that have always been “too hard”.
Many companies had problems with production scheduling, transport scheduling, stock cutting, inventory etc. All too often, these problems had been delegated to staff with no adequate training or tools.
Infomace therefore went to the Universities, sought out the few good people already out there applying the science, and invested a great deal of time and money.
The rest is history - Infomace now has many successful systems running, and is recognised as being one of the leading Computational Intelligence Systems Developers in the world.
BUT, it was indeed Vehicle Scheduling that provided Infomace’s first opening into the science of Computational Intelligence. HOWEVER, Infomace International still considers INFOTRAM as by far the most important application in its use of Computational Intelligence techniques.