Simulate, visualise, analyse and optimise production systems and logistics
Plant Simulation lets you build digital models of production and logistics systems to explore their behaviour and improve performance — optimising material flow, resource usage and logistics at every level, from global networks to local plants to individual lines. Because the model is digital, you can run experiments and what-if analyses without touching live production, well before a system is deployed. Extensive analysis tools, statistics and charts help you evaluate scenarios and make fast, reliable decisions early in planning.
Plant Simulation helps you:
- Detect and address problems that would otherwise need costly fixes during production ramp-up.
- Minimise investment in production lines without sacrificing required capacity.
- Improve the efficiency and energy use of existing systems with strategies validated in simulation before implementation.
What it does
- Model manufacturing processes — build well-structured, hierarchical models of facilities, lines and processes, including complex control systems, via object-oriented modelling.
- Simulate and analyse performance — increase throughput, reduce work-in-process and remove bottlenecks, accounting for internal and external supply chains, resources and business processes.
- Visualise models — effective 2D views plus 3D built from libraries or your own CAD, always perfectly aligned with the 2D model.
Benefits
- Improve the efficiency of existing facilities
- Minimise the investment needed to plan new ones
- Reduce inventory levels and throughput time
- Refine system dimensions such as buffer capacities
- Mitigate investment risk by validating concepts early
- Make the most of manufacturing resources
Features
- Object-oriented, hierarchical modelling with specialised object libraries for discrete and continuous processes.
- Visual analysis of throughput and resource utilisation, automatic bottleneck detection, Sankey diagrams and Gantt charts.
- Energy-analysis tools to calculate and optimise consumption.
- 3D online visualisation and animation in the ISO-standard JT format.
- Integrated neural networks and genetic algorithms for experiment management and automated optimisation.
- Open architecture with broad integration interfaces (ActiveX, C, CAD, COM, JSON, MQTT, ODBC, OPC Classic, OPC UA, Oracle SQL, Socket, XML and more).