Carmen Rave is a global modelling language that describes legality, costs and quality constraints. Rave supports all Carmen products and is essential both for tuning everyday production and performing simulations.

Carmen Rave is used as a legality, cost and quality modelling language and is accessible from all Carmen products. The language is specially designed for the transportation sector and to work effectively with advanced optimization. The calculations in Rave are also available from the report generator, Rave Publisher.

Constant legality control
Rave ensures that the proper legality controls are constantly carried out. Rules and parameters introduced in the language automatically appear in the planner’s control panel.

Solving the right problem
The planner can always change the legality by switching a quality rule on or off, or by changing the value of a cost or a quality parameter.

In addition to this flexibility, it is simple for our clients to change a legality rule or adjust the cost structure by changing the Rave code. The change will be immediately effective. It is possible to introduce modifications in the legality or the cost structure within hours. In the real world the target has a tendency to change all the time. If you can’t respond rapidly to change, you end up with the perfect solution for the wrong problem.

Simulations
What is optimal today may not necessarily be optimal tomorrow. New agreements are negotiated, new bases are opened, timetables are revised, new equipment is introduced, and so on. Carmen Rave provides the means for quickly adjusting to the ongoing change process. With the optimization technology in all of Carmen’s products Rave is also a powerful tool for analyzing what changes should be introduced, and what the financial conse quences will be. The ability to redefine the legality and cost structure combined with the ability of using many different rule sets, has proved to be vital when carrying out simulations.

Report calculations
Carmen Rave is used to calculate values in all reports available from the Carmen Rave Publisher. It is crucial to have all the detailed cost calculations displayed when analyzing the consequences of legality or quality changes.

A standalone Rave server
Rave is also available as a standalone application that provides our clients with a robust rule system for their in-house applications. Rave is easy to maintain. When you have to modify a rule, you simply make the changes in the Rave code, and they are applied to all applications that utilize Rave.

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A rule ensuring that it is impossible to plan a duty for more than 10 hours and an example of a cost function with cost components for salary, hotel, per diem and positioning flights.

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