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CRITICAL
MANUFACTURING
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
1 Steps to Follow
2 Detailed Evaluation
3 Solutions
4 Conclusions
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
STEPS TO FOLLOW
4. Do an initial survey
1 Arena
2 FlexSim
3 AnyLogic
4 Simul8
5 In-House Solution
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
DETAILED EVALUATION
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
SOLUTIONS
SOLUTIONS
ARENA
Easy to automate and easy to collect Most expensive tool of the chosen ones
statistics
SOLUTIONS
FLEXSIM
Price: 16,500
Support DDE (Dynamic Data Exchange) Has too many resources and tools that
will not be needed
3D Simulation and very clean GUI Lack of objects to use in the simulation
(maybe it is possible to create some)
Support any connectivity that C++ offers
(including DLLs)
SOLUTIONS
ANYLOGIC
Price: 13,950
SOLUTIONS
SIMUL8
Price: $4995
SOLUTIONS
IN-HOUSE
Cost (in
ID Name Description Risk
man/hours)
An initial study of the technologies to be
used has to be made. This includes the
Technologies study of cmNavigo, the programming
T01 languages to be used, the Stress Test and High 64 - 8 days
Study MasterData already developed and the
different simulators in the market.
Since this is a one man job, the
Architecture arquitechure will serve more to explain to
T02 the client whats the global vision of the Low 32 - 4 days
Design solution, nevertheless this is an essential
step of every project.
Cost (in
ID Name Description Risk
man/hours)
Design and development of the simulator
Solution and respective integration with
T05 cmNavigo. This macro-task will be divided High 360 - 45 days
Development as specified on T03.
It is important to validate the application
with test data to be able to understand if
Tests with Test each module is operating correctly. There
T06 will be two stages of validation with test Medium 40 - 5 days
Data data, the first one to validate the model
and the second to validate the simulator.
The validation will only be completed
Tests with Real when it is possible to simulate a real
T07 factory with precision. In order to do that High 80 - 10 days
Data its necessary to test the solution with
data from a real company.
The final documentation is the final step
of every project. All of the steps that lead
T08 Documentation to the development of the solution have Low 64 - 8 days
to be documented and an user-manual
has to be written.
SOLUTIONS
REQUIREMENTS
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
CONCLUSIONS
Commercial In-House
All commercial simulators have the same big issue: they dont
allow direct communication with cmNavigo, but some can work
with dlls.