Simulation
A working model of your operation, not a spreadsheet of it.
Building blocks ready to use, put together by the people who know the process, and then run as a real week, hour by hour.
Build your line on a canvas or as a file, start from a worked example, and run it until you see the range of weeks, not one lucky one.Lay your line out on a canvas or write it as a readable file, let the model check it as you type, and start from a worked example rather than an empty page. Then run it as many times as it takes to see the range of weeks you might get, not one lucky one.
A spreadsheet averages. Your floor does not.
A spreadsheet gives every hour the same load. A simulation runs like your floor: it shows the queue a breakdown leaves, and what it cost.A spreadsheet gives every hour the same load. It cannot show the queue that builds at ten because the press went down at 09:40, or that it is still draining at half past eleven. A simulation does the same things in the same order as your floor. So it can show both, and it can tell you what that morning cost.
In the spreadsheet
Press
Queue in front of the press
Every hour gets the average, so the morning looks calm.
In the model
Press
Queue in front of the press
The breakdown, and the queue it leaves behind for the next two hours.
Two views, one model
No programming: whoever knows the line builds the model, on a canvas or as a file. Both are one model, saved as an ordinary folder of files.No programming, and no waiting for a specialist. The person who knows the line builds its model, on a canvas or as a readable file, whichever suits. Both are the same model, and what is saved is an ordinary folder of files, reviewed and versioned like any other document.
Building blocks that already know how things behave
Each block already knows how its kind of thing behaves. You describe your plant instead of programming it: drag in, connect, fill in.A machine breaks down and is repaired; a buffer fills and blocks what is behind it; a vehicle carries a load out and comes back empty. Each block already knows how its kind of thing behaves, so you describe your plant instead of programming one: drag the block in, connect it, and fill in what is true of yours.
Shifts, breakdowns and changeovers, for engineersProducts that are more than a label
Variants inherit their product's data and set only what differs. Results come per product and variant, not as one average.Each product carries its own prices, bill of materials, water and emissions. A variant inherits all of it and sets only what differs. Results come out per product and variant, so a mixed line does not hide behind one blended average.
A model that tells you when you are wrong
A misspelt setting is refused with the word it probably meant, and an unpriced machine's cost reads unknown, never zero.A misspelt setting is not quietly ignored: that is how a model stops representing what you meant without anyone noticing. It is refused, with the word it was probably meant to be. And a machine you have not priced reports its cost as unknown, never as zero. The check says before the run that every total adding it up is short.
22 worked examples to start from
Each worked example asks one question and brings the runs that answer it. Open the closest: you work on a copy, the original stays.Nobody should face an empty canvas. Each worked example is a runnable model that asks one question, and brings the runs that answer it. Open the one closest to yours: it is copied into your project, the original stays as it shipped, and you make it yours.
The same model, next
Once it holds, everything else runs on it: the plans, the mornings, the cost and the footprint.
Planning
Strategy, investment cases and letting the software search for the best configuration.
Operations
Shifts, rosters, breaks and calendars, and the daily decisions they drive.
Analysis
Product passport, weighing the options, proposed actions and reports both audiences can read.
Energy
Every hour priced on its own, the grid's CO₂ by the hour, and your own solar and wind.
Sustainability
Emissions, energy, water and material, answered in the same run as cost.
Bring us your line.
The fastest way to know whether this models your operation properly is to describe it to us for 45 minutes and find out.
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