Have you ever thought about how an airport is busy managing aircraft traffic so that there is no accumulation of fleets? Or, what is it like to manage a manufacturing company with thousands of workers and several factories managing their resources to fulfill orders?
Digital transformation is the answer to the big question above. With a comprehensive digital system, companies can manage the coordination of each division, to maximize resource scheduling.
To solve this complex operation optimization problem, companies need to utilize solver technology, which is able to study various possibilities to be used as mathematical models and then calculate the optimal solution.
Solvers have been around for years, but why aren't they popular in enterprise applications?
First, solvers have high technical barriers and are difficult to develop. For a long time, the core technology of high-performance commercial solvers has been dominated by some of the leading technology companies. In addition, the solver has a certain usage threshold.
Second, translating a problem facing the company into a mathematical problem that the solver can understand is not easy. Solver requires a very high level of mathematical and technical skills, but companies often don't have the necessary professionals.
Finally, solvers are usually used to solve optimization problems that require high performance for complex problems with billions of variables. With the service status and data from the company changing in real time, high resolution is needed in the system so that the solver can find the required solution.
In addition, the solver has to be continuously adjusted based on historical data which involves a lot of parameter adjustments. Therefore, it is not easy to use the solver in a real business scenario.
So, how can the solver be used in the company's business activities?
At Huawei Connect 2021, Huawei Senior Vice President and Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan unveiled the Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver. The first solution of Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver is to solve the problem of optimal parameters and policies with different scenarios, so that customers don't have to experiment repeatedly with different configuration parameters and policies.
The system works intelligently in optimizing solver performance by combining historical data in fixed scenarios, so that the solver can adapt to customer scenarios and problems to obtain better solutions.
HUAWEI CLOUD combines AI and solver from a better usability and intelligence perspective. Since the solver can only understand certain inputs, which is not yet capable of converting specific problems into inputs, the Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver acts as a translator. By using the intelligence of upper-layer suites and tools, users can simplify the mapping between production problems and specific solvers, and lower the threshold for using solvers.
OptVerse AI Solver solves traditional obstacle solvers which are mostly based on classical mathematical algorithms. Huawei has found a solving formula by adding AI to increase speed. Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver brings together solver, AI, and optimization operations technologies that go beyond the boundaries of optimization operations in the industry so far.
Some of the main advantages offered, namely firstly break the boundaries to help optimization decision making in more complex scenarios. Second, breaking the speed limit up to 100 times even when the problem is solved on a 100 million scale.
Third, on the Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver the modeling efficiency is increased up to 30 times after AI is used for intelligent modeling. Fourth, this technology increases efficiency by up to 30% thanks to the use of AI.
In Hans Mittelmann's latest list of simple programming, the Huawei Cloud AI OptVerse AI solver took first place and broke the world record. Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solves user-friendly problems for industrial customers.
Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver is reliable for intelligent decision making by enterprises. Explicitly, Huawei Cloud stated that the technology it developed provides specific benefits in various industrial fields.
In the financial industry, companies can obtain an optimal portfolio to increase the risk ratio by 15%. In the manufacturing industry, Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI Solver helps in fast optimization of industrial materials, increasing efficiency by up to 30 times. Meanwhile, in the transportation industry, this technology will allow flight scheduling to be optimized so that 2.6 million passengers do not need to transit.
Furthermore, for the logistics industry, the Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver was utilized to develop an intelligent port planning facility at Tianjin Port. Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver can complete the entire port planning within 10 minutes, increasing the planning speed by up to 144 times, to improve efficiency and resource utilization.
Likewise in supply chain activities, with Huawei Cloud OptVerse AI solver companies can schedule large-scale production, maximize supply capabilities, increase inventory completeness levels by up to 37%, and save costs every year.
HUAWEI CLOUD provides the AI experience and capabilities accumulated by the AI solver development team over the past 10 years to customers across thousands of cloud service industries. This helps customers to continue digitizing and accelerate achieving global optimization.