As more applications are moving towards cloud deployments, minimizing startup time is becoming more and more important. Read on to find out how to use Timefold Solver with Spring native images to reduce startup time in your application. If you want to follow along, clone the Time … | Continue reading
As more applications are moving towards cloud deployments, minimizing startup time is becoming more and more important. Read on to find out how to use Timefold Solver with Spring native images to reduce startup time in your application. If you want to follow along, clone the Time … | Continue reading
“Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 reaches End of Life on 30 May 2024 at which time you can choose to continue using the Red Hat build of OptaPlanner with an Extended Life Support contract until May 2026. Red Hat does not intend to offer the next version, Red Hat build of OptaPlanne … | Continue reading
Bye Bye dummy vehicles, hello speed upgrade! TL;DR: OptaPlanner and pre-1.8.0 Timefold users should upgrade for yet another significant performance boost. Building on last year’s massive speed gains, we’re shifting to a higher gear. Timefold 1.8.0 introduces support for planning … | Continue reading
As the Java 22 release is fast approaching, we took our usual look at its performance when it comes to the Timefold Solver. Read on to find out how the solver performs on Java 22, compared to Java 21. This time including GraalVM! But first, let’s get some things out of the way. W … | Continue reading
How does your business adapt when unexpected changes disrupt your carefully planned schedules after a part of the plan has already been executed? Can you quickly adjust a vehicle routing plan when an additional urgent customer request comes in or an employee unexpectedly takes th … | Continue reading
How does your business adapt when unexpected changes disrupt your carefully planned schedules? Can you quickly adjust a vehicle routing plan when a last-minute customer request comes in or an employee unexpectedly takes a day off? Are your current planning solutions flexible enou … | Continue reading
Mar 19th, 2024 - YouTube Live AMA - Vehicle Routing and Maintenance Scheduling Planning Models Documentation Partners Pricing Support Contact Star600 All press releases Partnership: NGA 911 and Timefold Los Angeles, 2024/02/23 - Timefold, a platform for planning optimization, bui … | Continue reading
Do users trust your planning automation from day one? When you solve a planning problem - for example vehicle routing or maintenance scheduling - and show the optimized solution to the end-users, do they immediately like the schedule? Do they see the value in a heartbeat? Or are … | Continue reading
What happens when a single application has to address a problem using distinct configurations? How can you solve two different planning problems in the same application, potentially in sequence? With two SolverManager instances, one for each problem. In the article, we’ll show yo … | Continue reading
When I started OptaPlanner 18 years ago, I couldn’t dare to imagine that one day it would schedule millions of resources. It is amazing. This would not have been possible without the dedication, innovation, and high-quality work that each core and community contributor has brough … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever organized a tournament with many teams, you know how hard it is to generate a good and fair tournament schedule that complies with all the rules, regardless if it’s for the national soccer league or your local padel competition. In this article, we describe how we … | Continue reading
In the past, you’ve worked with OptaPlanner. This globally used Open Source software was at the core of a wide array of planning optimization projects, significantly impacting efficiency in diverse industries. My co-founder, Geoffrey De Smet, the creator of OptaPlanner, and I wit … | Continue reading
Some of the users coming to Timefold from OptaPlanner might still be using score DRL to define their constraints. Since score DRL is the only thing we have not brought with us when we forked OptaPlanner, it is time to explain how to migrate from score DRL to Constraint Streams. C … | Continue reading
We have just released Timefold Solver 0.8.42. With this release, Timefold Solver 0.8 has reached End Of Life. Read on to find out why we are doing this, and what it means for you. What is End Of Life? End Of Life (EOL) means that Timefold will no longer provide support for Timefo … | Continue reading
Zurich - Ghent - Swiss-based e-switch Solutions and Timefold announce a partnership to optimize maintenance and service management. About e-switch Solutions Founded in 1999: e-switch Solutions is a leading solutions provider, specializing in maintenance and service management. Of … | Continue reading
Have you ever received a solution from the Solver and wondered what -3hard/-11soft actually means? Or had to explain it to your end-users? Now, you can just show it to them. In Timefold Solver 1.4.0, you can break down the score of a solution into constraints and constraint match … | Continue reading
In the world of Java and Kotlin development, Spring Boot is often the go-to choice for building a wide range of applications. Now, imagine if this reliable companion could also handle complex planning problems like Vehicle Routing, Shift Scheduling, Order Picking, Assembly Line s … | Continue reading
With the release of Java 21 just around the corner, you may be wondering how it compares to Java 17 and whether you should upgrade. Here at Timefold, so were we. Read on to find out how Timefold Solver performs on Java 21, compared to Java 17. But first, let’s get some things out … | Continue reading
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a popular academic optimization problem with numerous variants. While you can map the vehicle routing problem to real-world tasks like planning deliveries or optimizing itineraries for field service technicians, very often you have to deal wit … | Continue reading
The work on Timefold Solver 1.0.0 is progressing well. We intend to release in early July. This post will give you a sneak peek of what’s coming. Brand new benchmark report The solver benchmark report has been completely redesigned and modernized. It now fits nicely on all kinds … | Continue reading
Timefold, a new company co-founded by OptaPlanner creator Geoffrey De Smet and Maarten Vandenbroucke, is excited to announce the fork of the popular open-source project, OptaPlanner. This marks the beginning of a new era in the operational planning optimization space, with Timefo … | Continue reading
OptaPlanner is an Open Source project used globally to optimize operational planning. Every day, it saves thousands of organizations time, money and resources. On May 2nd, 2023, OptaPlanner entered a new chapter. The project we worked on for seventeen years has matured under Red … | Continue reading
Brussels, Belgium - Timefold, a Belgian-based commercial open source software startup focused on planning optimization through AI, announced today that it has raised 2 million euro in funding from Smartfin VC. The investment will enable Timefold to expand the technology, make it … | Continue reading
Every new company need a logo. So did Timefold. When starting a company, one of the most fun tasks is creating the logo. Far more exciting than VAT accounting, I can tell you. Of course, a good logo is important: It’s hard to change. It must be able to stand the test of time. It … | Continue reading