July 10th, 2026
Making the Evidence Visible The Society’s archive contained decades of volunteer and bulk-imported material. Some references were hidden from editors when a citation contained only a source name or only a URL. Restoring those fields exposed citations in more than...
June 1st, 2025
A dairy-logistics software company engaged me to add optimization to a platform that already tracked the chemistry and continuous product flow among farms, processing plants, and tanker trucks. The client hoped to reduce transportation cost by more efficiently...
November 26th, 2024
The Challenge When I became involved with LONO Audio, the technology existed as a complex chain of commercial plug-ins inside a professional Digital Audio Workstation (DAW). It could produce impressive results, but it required extensive human intervention and depended...
January 10th, 2001
A biotechnology company had developed a feed additive intended to improve the health and growth of livestock. The scientific result was promising, but customers did not buy an ingredient merely because it changed an animal's biology. They needed to know whether...
January 10th, 1999
An aluminum producer asked us to evaluate energy-generation choices for a smelting operation. The assignment was not simply to find the cheapest electricity. A smelter is a continuous electrochemical process, so the value of a power source depends on its reliability,...
January 10th, 1998
A chicken raised for meat is called a broiler. Raising one efficiently is, among other things, an optimization problem. Our client consumed approximately 440 railroad cars of feed ingredients every day and spent well over $1 billion annually on feed, so fractions of a...
January 10th, 1998
One Technology was asked to improve the way a large financial portfolio was balanced in the presence of uncertain markets. The client did not merely need a better forecast or a better fixed allocation. It needed decisions that remained useful while macroeconomic...
January 10th, 1997
Loading a tractor-trailer is constrained by two different limits: space and weight. Space vs. Weight A typical 53-foot dry van has interior dimensions of roughly 52½ feet long, 8½ feet wide, and a little over 9 feet high (about 4,000 cubic feet of usable volume). But...
January 10th, 1996
One Technology developed an optimization system for a processor of not-from-concentrate orange juice. The facility had eight aseptic storage tanks of one million gallons each, and a year-round obligation to ship juice within customer specifications. The Blending...
January 10th, 1995
A Florida sugar producer managed approximately 160,000 acres of cane divided into roughly 2,000 fields. Each field had its own agronomic and economic properties. The operational question sounded simple: Which Fields Are Most Profitable to Replant? After the first...
