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CRITICAL
MANUFACTURING
SIMULATORS
COMPARISON

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INDEX
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1 Steps to Follow

2 Detailed Evaluation

3 Solutions

4 Conclusions

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SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
STEPS TO FOLLOW

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STEPS TO FOLLOW
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7 STEPS PROGRAM

1. Establish the commitment to invest

2. Clearly state the problem

3. Determine the type of tool required

4. Do an initial survey

5. Develop the list of requirements

6. Choose some tools

7. Carry out a detailed evaluation

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STEPS TO FOLLOW
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CHOOSEN TOOLS

1 Arena

2 FlexSim

3 AnyLogic

4 Simul8

5 In-House Solution

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SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
DETAILED EVALUATION

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DETAILED EVALUATION
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SOURCES

Trials/Demos Direct Contact


Direct contact with the vendors in order
Experimenting the software, doing some
to get informations they dont provide in
examples and demos.
the website.

Information from Site Web Search


Each product website has some relevant More but discarded solutions were found
information about the software. through web seacrh.

Papers and Journals Guides


Consulting some papers and journals in To learn how to proper work with the
the field was one of the best methods to software, the application guides and some
gather information. videos were studied.

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SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
SOLUTIONS

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SOLUTIONS
ARENA

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ARENA
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INTRO

Intro Background Customers

Object-Oriented Released in 1993 Novartis, Bayer,


SIMAN Manufacturing, Pfizer
60 Modules Packaging, Supply FHB, CIB Bank, GE
(Common, Support Chains, Health Care Money
and Transfer) and Military Vodafone, T-Mobile,
300,000 Users WW Hungarian Police

Price: 19.300 + 3.500 /year (Maintenance)

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ARENA
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PROS AND CONS

Advantages and Extra Features Limitations and Disadvantages


Most well-documented simulation Doesnt allow WCF communication
software in the market
ODBC data compatibility Unintuitive and has a poor GUI
Import AutoCad drawings Simulation consumes too many computer
resources
VB scripting, automation and macro Debugging is a pain
recorder

Easy to automate and easy to collect Most expensive tool of the chosen ones
statistics

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SOLUTIONS
FLEXSIM

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FLEXSIM
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INTRO

Intro Background Customers

Open-GL (3D) drag- Released in 2003 TRW, Bechtel,


and-drop Manufacturing, General Mills,
Incorporates a C++ Logistics and Swisslog, Caterpillar,
IDE and compiler in Distribution, DHL, Goodyear,
the graphic modeling Transportation, Oil Corus, Michelin,
environment field processes and ThyssenKrupp,
Networking data Johnson Controls
flow and Multiserv

Price: 16,500

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FLEXSIM
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PROS AND CONS

Advantages and Extra Features Limitations and Disadvantages


Perform database queries to import data Doesnt allow WCF communication
into FlexSim using SQL
Send messages (with parameters) Second most expensive tool of the
between objects choosen ones

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)

Use sockets to send and receive data


(useful for Scada)

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SOLUTIONS
ANYLOGIC

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ANYLOGIC
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INTRO

Intro Background Customers

3 modeling Released in 2000 Toyota, Panasonic,


approaches and last version in Rolls-Royce, IBM,
Extend simulation 2007 Louvre, Intel,
with Java / UML-RT Market and Delloite, UEFA,
Stock&Flow Competion, General Motors,
Diagrams, Healthcare, Johnson & Johnson,
State&Action charts, Manufacturing, US Navy, Volvo, HP,
Process flowcharts Logistics Red Cross, NASA, ...

Price: 13,950

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ANYLOGIC
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PROS AND CONS

Advantages and Extra Features Limitations and Disadvantages


Allows three types of modelling: Agent Doesnt allow WCF communication
Based, Discrete Event and System
Dynamics
Because of that, allows all types of Difficult to use, requires a large study of
simulations (Discrete/Continuous, documentation and tutorials
Micro/Macro Level, )
Simulator with the most well-known
clients
Extend default models with Java

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SOLUTIONS
SIMUL8

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SIMUL8
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INTRO

Intro Background Customers

Dynamic discrete Founded in 1994 Chrisler, Ford,


simulation Business, Fidelity
Work itens (Entities, Manufacturing, McDonalds, NIBCO,
Queues, Activities, Health Care, Public Gatwick Airport
Exit, ...) Sector, Supply HP, American Red
Chains, Energy and Cross, Inland
Call Centers Revenue

Price: $4995

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SIMUL8
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PROS AND CONS

Advantages and Extra Features Limitations and Disadvantages


Has an excelent customer support, which Doesnt allow WCF communication
is always good (including web demos of
the tool)
Most cheap commercial tool Few modeling components
Creation of a class of models (template Poor documentation/web-tutorials
models) that can be easily tailored to
different systems

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SOLUTIONS
IN-HOUSE

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IN-HOUSE
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PROS AND CONS

Advantages and Extra Features Limitations and Disadvantages


Allows WCF communication Solution that doesnt have market proofs
Probably the cheapest solution Can become obsolete if not upgraded
regularly
Can be adapted to meet all Critical needs High risk of developing software from
and requirements scratch
Solution adapted to the Critical coding Only works with Criticals software
guidelines
Can be adapted to each new product Will not have the level of functionality
developed by Critical compared to a commercial-off-the-shelf
product

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IN-HOUSE
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TASKS PRICE

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.

Technical The requirements already agreed are only


T03 macro-tasks, the technical ones are yet to Medium 16 - 2 days
Requirements be discussed.

In order to achieve the best simulation


possible, its necessary to have a robust
Model simulation model behind. So is devoted
T04 enough time to choose the best High 80 - 10 days
Development approach, as well as the design of the
model for that approach.

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IN-HOUSE
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TASKS PRICE

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.

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SOLUTIONS
REQUIREMENTS

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REQUIREMENTS
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COMPARISON

Arena FlexSim AnyLogic Simul8 In-House


RF01
RF02
RF03
RF04
RF05
RF06
RF07
RF08

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REQUIREMENTS
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COMPARISON

Arena FlexSim AnyLogic Simul8 In-House


RF09
RF10
RF11
RF12
RF13
RF14
RF15
RF16

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SIMULATORS
COMPARISON
CONCLUSIONS

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CONCLUSIONS
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DIRECT COMPARISON

Commercial In-House

Price + Maintenence Man/Hours

Company Support In-House Support

Wait for Upgrades New Features Whenever

Ready to Use Still Developing

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CONCLUSIONS
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WHAT TO CHOOSE

All commercial simulators have the same big issue: they dont
allow direct communication with cmNavigo, but some can work
with dlls.

Is it better to invest in an off-the-shelf product that has market


proofs or develop one from scratch that is built arround
cmNavigo?
Will CM be dependent of an external company if choose a
commercial simulator?
Can an one-man-simulator have the power of one built by one
large company?

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