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Aurora-CCPM Multi-Project Critical Chain Project Management with Intelligent Scheduling
  • NASA Space Launch System

    NASA is implementing Aurora to schedule the ground-based activities that are preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) before its maiden flight. Similarly, Aurora/AMP generated short- and long-term schedules of ground-based activities that prepared and refurbished the Space Shuttles before and after each flight. Aurora’s intelligent and rapid scheduling enables NASA to analyze numerous what-if scenarios efficiently.

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  • Boeing Uses Aurora

    The Boeing Company uses Aurora to prioritize production of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner™. Aurora's dynamic assembly schedule adapts to real-time production variations, so Boeing can produce aircraft as efficiently as possible

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  • Major Auto Manufacturer Uses Aurora

    Major auto manufacturer uses Aurora to reduce the number of crash tests required. As crash test requirements evolve and the need for tighter safety tolerances increases, the auto manufacturer and its partners have been able to streamline crash testing procedures which have led to significant cost reductions.

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  • Scheduling Space Station Preparations

    Aurora schedules the use of floor space and other resources at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center's Space Station Processing Facility, the world’s largest low-particle clean room where International Space Station components are prepared for flight.

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  • Mass General Uses Aurora

    Aurora is used by Massachusetts General Hospital to schedule clinical rotations, on-call shifts, and clinic hours for its medical residency program. Aurora's schedule satisfies the hospital’s staffing requirements, special requests, and clinical rotation rules that ensure that residents receive appropriate experiences.

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  • United Space Alliance Uses Aurora

    United Space Alliance included Aurora in the design of Temporis, a scheduling system targeted for use by NASA crew members on board next generation spacecraft during deep space missions

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  • Critical Chain Project Management

    Aurora-CCPM is a combination of Aurora™, Stottler Henke’s intelligent planning and scheduling system, with the added power and flexibility of Multi-project Critical Chain Project Management. Boeing uses Aurora-CCPM because no other product could meet its Critical Chain needs.

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  • MRO of NASA Space Shuttles

    An Aurora predecessor scheduled the Maintenance, Refurbishment and Overhaul (MRO) of NASA’s Space Shuttles at the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at Kennedy Space Center. The solution encapsulated expert heuristics in combination with automated search to optimally allocate resources, including human, equipment and physical space minimizing the duration of the entire MRO process.

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  • NASA Space Launch System

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    NASA is implementing Aurora to schedule the ground-based activities that are preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) before its maiden flight. Similarly, Aurora/AMP generated short- and long-term schedules of ground-based activities that prepared and refurbished the Space Shuttles before and after each flight. Aurora’s intelligent and rapid scheduling enables NASA to analyze numerous what-if scenarios efficiently.

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Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) is more powerful and resource-driven than Critical Path Project Management. CCPM is based on methods and algorithms derived from the Theory of Constraints. The Critical Chain is the sequence of both precedence- and resource-dependent tasks that prevents a project from being completed in a shorter time, given finite resources. If (non-human) resources are always available in unlimited quantities, then a project’s Critical Chain is identical to its Critical Path.

CCPM provides greater transparency into how the organization’s overall set of projects are performing during execution, and provides global metrics to guide and motivate all parties to do what is best for the entire organization.

An Introduction to Critical Chain Project Management is provided in through series of videos

    • Introduction to Critical Chain Project Management Video Part I

  • Introduction to Critical Chain Management Video Part II

and also through this
        PowerPoint presentation.

By leveraging Aurora’s sophisticated scheduling system with CCPM theory, a much more robust solution has been developed: Aurora-CCPM. Resource constraints (e.g., available equipment, space, and human resources) are very important to the implementation of the Critical Chain method because it more heavily considers them when compared to Critical Path. Fortunately, Aurora-CCPM takes into account resource requirements, a variety of constraints, and can be adapted to pertinent domain knowledge. This is especially critical during the execution phase of a CCPM plan as real-time updates arrive regarding the status of the hundreds or thousands of tasks that make up the plan.

Aurora-CCPM greatly enhances the practicality and power of the Critical Chain method:

  • Critical Chain can now be applied to projects encompassing thousands of tasks
  • It can also be used to handle complex emergency-type situations, where new tasks are inserted during the actual execution of the plan

 


Aurora-CCPM is a combination of Aurora™, Stottler Henke’s intelligent planning and scheduling system, with the added power and flexibility of Multi-project Critical Chain Project Management.

By using sophisticated scheduling software as the underpinnings for Critical Chain reasoning, Aurora-CCPM can be applied to projects encompassing thousands of heavily constrained tasks and requiring hundreds of different kinds of resources. Giving the Critical Chain method such a solid scheduling basis also allows it to more easily handle complex situations such as new tasks being inserted during the actual plan execution, as well as other radical changes to the situation.

Features and Benefits

By adding Critical Chain Project Management to an already powerful and sophisticated scheduling software, Aurora-CCPM provides two important additional benefits:

  • Better Critical Chain (one that can potentially be worked in less time)
  • More flexibility and an improved ability to accommodate change
  • Interfaces with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Siemens TeamCenter, Artemis, PSS, Open Plan, PS8, Oracle and other enterprise applications; to import, analyze, and export schedules.
  • Provides intelligent conflict resolution.
  • Provides explanations on why each activity/task was scheduled where it was, adding transparency.
  • Disruptions to the original plan including interjections of new tasks during execution are handled optimally.

Enterprise Solutions

Aurora-CCPM provides enterprise solutions not otherwise available:

  • Boeing uses Aurora-CCPM because no other product could meet its Critical Chain needs
  • Large-project modeling is possible and more efficient
  • Large multi-project environments can be modeled
  • Short duration critical chain

Product Literature

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