27th May 2016: After Phase I, TIANZHI and ENGINEST are starting the second phase on strategic production planning based on NCL.
       The project continues to develop APS for cloud manufacturing by trans-enterprise resource management and optimization. Phase II will improve the APS model and put it into practice.
        ENGINEST‘s main technology is the NCL Natural Constraint Language which contains AI techniques for recognition of natural mathematical expressions and solves industrial problems using mixed set programming algorithms. The language differs from other commercial solvers in two senses: In general, it is the unique Turing-complete description language modeling problems naturally in conventional mathematical logic. In particular, please pay attention: NCL is very different from object constraint languages which focus on object-oriented modeling since NCL focuses on natural mathematical description of industrial problems.