FAQs

Aurora is an advanced scheduling solution that optimizes project management by streamlining operations, reducing turnaround times, and tackling complex challenges. It uses sophisticated knowledge, user rules, and constraints to improve scheduling compared to systems using simple, often suboptimal rules.

Aurora offers several advantages:

• Shorter Schedules: Aurora can deliver schedules that are 20-30% shorter.
• User-Friendly Interface: Quick scheduling input, visualization, and editing of resource allocations and timelines. It also automatically highlights scheduling conflicts.
• Strategic Benefits: Optimizes resource usage, supports realistic project modeling, and maximizes project throughput while minimizing costs.
• Advanced Modeling: Aurora supplies all of the “standard” modeling features but also supplies additional functionality to allow the user to quickly and easily model things that may be difficult or impossible to capture with other scheduling software.
• Domain-Tailored Optimization: Aurora’s algorithms have been fine-tuned for sub-assembly and final-assembly scheduling

Aurora encodes and applies sophisticated scheduling knowledge and user-supplied, decision-making rules to solve complex problems more effectively than conventional approaches.

No, it’s an advanced scheduling solution that enhances scheduling efficiency, optimizes resource allocation, and adapts to specific project needs. It’s designed to be more than just a basic automation tool.

Aurora integrates the expertise and decision-making capabilities learned from seasoned human schedulers who have worked on complex scheduling challenges.

Key features include:

• Modeling Accuracy
• Execution and Iteration Support
• Analytics
• Visualization
• Data Management
• Responsiveness to Change
• Domain-Tailored Optimization

Aurora supplies standard modeling features like precedence constraints and resource requirements, but it also provides additional functionality to model complex scenarios quickly and easily that may be difficult or impossible to capture with other scheduling software.

Aurora excels in operational scheduling by planning, executing tasks in progress, and iterating using past data. It effectively supports critical updates and data coherence across stages.

Aurora provides a variety of analytic features intended to help Industrial Engineers (IEs) better understand their model and schedule.

Aurora provides a variety of displays designed to help IEs quickly and easily interact with and analyze their model and schedule.

Aurora provides customized integrations with key systems, as well as more flexible integrations and data management tools that can be used more generally. They specifically mention CMAD integration.

A dedicated team of Aurora developers and implementors have years of experience assisting, as needed, to emergent project requirements.

Aurora’s graphical user interface enables users to enter domain-specific scheduling knowledge and requirements quickly and easily.

Customers include:

• NASA
• United Space Alliance
• Air Force
• TenA Company
• Camcar Textron
• General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB)
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI)
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
• Bombardier Learjet
• US Navy

Aurora provides customized integrations with key systems and flexible data management tools.

Yes, Aurora offers dedicated personnel who have customized it for years, some even decades.

You can contact us through the website to ask specific questions.

You can request a free demo by filling out the contact form on the Aurora Scheduling website.