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<blockquote data-quote="RTS313" data-source="post: 5789681" data-attributes="member: 106530"><p>Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions.</p><p></p><p>Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016. </p><p></p><p>Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018).</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]461249[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RTS313, post: 5789681, member: 106530"] Costing $250 million to build and deploy, ORION is expected to save UPS $300 to $400 million annually. By building efficient routes and reducing the miles driven and fuel consumption, ORION contributes to UPS’s sustainability efforts by reducing 100,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions. Motivated by a perfectionist view, the ORION project is the result of a long-term operational technology investment and commitment by UPS. ORION was more than a decade in the making from the initial development of the algorithm to full deployment to nearly 55,000 routes in North America. 2013 marked the first major ORION deployment by a team of 500 dedicated resources to roll out ORION to 10,000 UPS routes. As results exceeded expectations, UPS sped up the U.S. deployment and completed it by the fall of 2016. Today, ORION can solve an individual route in seconds and is constantly running in the background evaluating routes before drivers even leave the facility. This level of route evaluation conducted through the ORION program requires extensive hardware and architectural provisions. Running on a bank of servers in Mahwah, New Jersey, ORION is constantly evaluating the best way for a route to run based on real-time information. While most of America is sleeping, ORION is solving tens of thousands of route optimizations per minute. In addition to architectural enhancements, the driver’s delivery information acquisition device (DIAD) is enhanced to serve as the tool for communicating optimized routes to drivers while on the road (Paterson, 2018). [ATTACH type="full"]461249[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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