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Identifying Cost Reduction and Performance Improvement Opportunities through Simulation
During difficult economic times, companies have few positive cost reducing options that simultaneously improve operational performance. This paper addresses how Deloitte Consulting partnered with Simio LLC to model multiple process improvement opportunities for a HVAC manufacturer in order to reduce the facility’s operating costs.
A Management Perspective: Predict Performance Faster to Record Profits Sooner
It’s no secret: Simulation can predict performance, reduce risk and let you see the impact of change. Those who use it know how simulation helps projects get off the ground days – if not weeks -- earlier than imagined.
What often goes unnoticed is the over $10,000-per-day benefit of using simulation to shave time off of a project’s start date.
How Simio Objects Differ from Other Object-Oriented Modeling Tools
Simio makes modeling dramatically easier and faster by providing a new object-based paradigm that radically changes the way objects are built and used. The purpose of this paper is to describe how the object-oriented modeling framework of Simio differs from other object-oriented modeling tools.
Introduction to Simio for Beginners
This paper introduces Simio to users new to simulation. It is intended for the manufacturing engineer, hospital quality engineer, logistics specialist, six sigma black belt, lean system manager, etc., who would like to see how Simio can improve system performance. We discuss the use and benefits of simulation, the basic concepts of modeling, and how to get started using Simio in your decision making.
Tips for Successful Practice of Simulation
Succeeding with a technology as powerful as simulation involves much more than the technical aspects you may have been trained in. The parts of a simulation study that are outside the realm of modeling and analysis can make or break the project. This paper explores the most common pitfalls in performing simulation studies and identifies approaches for avoiding these problems.
Intelligent Objects - The Future of Simulation
This paper describes a new modeling system that simplifies model building through the use of intelligent objects. The intelligent objects, built by modelers, may be reused in multiple modeling projects. Although this framework is focused on object-oriented modeling, it also supports discrete event, process, and agent-based modeling to provide high flexibility in a single tool.
Introduction to Simio for Arena Users
This paper will help experienced Arena users transition to Simio. As an experienced Arena user you have many advantages over a new user in terms of modeling experience and project management. Although Simio is very simple and powerful - that power can best be leveraged by a different approach than you are accustomed to with Arena. Learn how to exploit the full power of Simio.
Bring Simulation In-house to Support Good Decision Making
Simulation enables organizations to make better decisions by letting them see the impact of proposed changes before they are implemented. Modeling is traditionally done by individuals distant from the system to be modeled. This creates a chasm between the people that know and operate the system, and those that model the system. Simulation modeling is it's most powerful when it is done by the people that understand the system, issues, and opportunities within the system.
The Value of Simulation in Modeling Supply Chains
This paper discusses the reasons why one would want to use simulation as the analysis methodology to evaluate supply chains, its advantages and disadvantages against other analysis methodologies such as optimization, and business scenarios where simulation can find cost reductions that other methodologies would miss.