Planning optimization made easy.
Timefold is the open source AI solver to optimize operations and scheduling in Java, Python or Kotlin. Timefold is a fork of OptaPlanner by its creator and other experts.
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Exploring Timefold: Optimizing Your Planning Experience
Experience a new era of planning optimization with Timefold. Dive into the world of efficient planning, enhanced performance, and user-centric solutions that empower you to excel in every aspect of your business.
Real world
Many optimization solvers are designed for academic or isolated problems, such as the Traveling Salesman Problem, VRP, Bin Packing or Job Shop Scheduling.
In reality, planning problems are more complex. They combine hard/soft constraints from different use cases and often include country or company specific constraints.Timefold was created to automate real world planning optimization with ease. Solve for hard, soft and other constraints. Reduce costs substantially, improve service quality, fulfill employee wishes and lower carbon emissions. Far more than expected.
Easy to use
Traditionally, optimization solvers are the domain of mathematicians and expensive, specialized Operations Research consultants. You feed those solvers your data as number matrices and your constraints as mathematical equations.
Timefold is build for programmers. You feed it your data as domain classes and define your constraints as code. Let us worry about the math inside the solver. Your code becomes self-explanatory. Integration with other APIs is straightforward.
And when the business rules change constraints - they eventually always do - maintenance is easy.
Open source
Timefold Community is Open Source software, released under the Apache License 2.0. Use it in your commercial software, for free. It's a complete and professional solver. We frequently release new features and fixes through Maven Central and Pypi.
Our entire company believes in the power of open source to build high-quality software. Our team participates in the open source community and regularly contributes to other open source projects.
To pay for Timefold Community development, we sell Timefold Enterprise: an extension with high-scalability features and enterprise support.
Scalable and fast
Timefold is extremely fast. It combines performance tricks from metaheuristic algorithms, concurrent programming, database indexes and incremental (delta) calculations with native compilation support.
But speed without scaling is irrelevant. The search space of planning problems scales exponentially to the size of the problem. The quality of a solver on a small dataset says nothing about that solver on a big dataset.
Like other solvers, it's CPU-bound with little to no I/O. Unlike other solvers, memory consumption barely increases as you scale out, making it ideal for cloud deployments.
Operational fit
Timefold is build for operational planning, not just strategic or tactical planning. We deeply understand that a schedule is living, breathing thing. That its requirements change over time. That planning agility is essential for great results.
Therefore, Timefold handles:
- Continuous planning: Publish a schedule every week, several weeks before execution.
- Pinning: Your user is still in control. Timefold plans around their manual assignments.
- Non-disruptive replanning: Handle changing circumstances & minimize impact on existing solutions.
- Overconstrained planning: When there are not enough resources, suggest alternative solutions.
- Real-time planning: React on real-time disruptions of the plan within milliseconds.
Optimize your planning with Timefold today
Take a look at our guides and conquer your first planning problem today. Explore our quickstart examples and copy/paste it to get started. Customize it, integrate it, deploy it, scale it and then watch how your organization becomes more efficient.
Quickstart repo