The special interest group on Enterprise-wide Optimization (EWO) has been created as part of the project "Computational Models and Algorithms for Enterprise-wide Optimization of Process Industries" that has been funded by the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance through ICES.

The goal of the project is to provide a comprehensive set of computational capabilities for addressing the integrated planning, scheduling, real-time optimization and inventory control of process systems.

The project involves a total of 7 Ph.D. students, and 7 faculty (CMU:
Larry Biegler, Chrysanthos Gounaris, Ignacio Grossmann, Nick Sahinidis, John Hooker, Nicola Secomandi;
UPitt: Andrew Schaeffer).

The companies who currently participate are ABB, Air Liquide, Air Products, Braskem, Dow Chemical, ExxonMobil, Petrobras, P&G, Praxair, Sasol, SK Innovation and Total. These companies have supplied case studies that will be undertaken by the EWO faculty and students.