Process Optimisation by Simulation
Description
Analysis of the improvement of industrial processes (production, transport, supply chain) through the creation of virtual simulation models. Development of discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation and mixed simulation models. Ability to integrate simulation models with real-time process information systems (digital twin).
ITA offers a process optimization consultancy solution through the creation of a virtual simulation model. Thanks to this solution, an improvement of industrial processes is offered, including production, transport or the supply chain, allowing the impacts of new planning or changes to be measured accurately and in advance, providing a common vision of the new processes in the company.
Process optimisation is one of the priority objectives of any company, even more so with the incorporation of the Industry 4.0 concept. ITA provides consultancy in process optimization through simulation, which allows experimentation with the system to analyse its behaviour in different operating scenarios at a much lower cost than if the tests were carried out with the real system. It can be easily integrated with the company's management systems, allowing both current operations and future operating scenarios to be reproduced.
It consists of information analysis techniques (for detailed characterisation of key aspects of the processes), process simulation technologies (for virtual representation of material and information flows and management rules) and design of experiments techniques (to analyse the impact of different factors on the process design based on simulation results). Development of discrete event simulation, multi-agent simulation and mixed simulation models.
These technologies can be applied to specific processes as well as to the set of integrated processes in the supply chain and have the capacity to integrate simulation models with real-time information systems of the processes (digital twin).
Competitive Advantages
Some Advantages of Implementing This Service
- Cost reduction
- Resource optimization
- Prior analysis of new investments or changes in the facility
- Bottleneck detection and identification of saturated areas
- Assessment of the implementation of new automation technologies in processes (e.g., replacing conventional processes with AGVs)
Example Applications (Industrial and Logistics Sectors)
- Optimization of internal material handling processes, aimed at evaluating resource utilization within the company
- Analysis of the operation of a new plant or warehouse before its installation, using a baseline model to define the necessary infrastructure
- Design and analysis of a new plant or warehouse in an automated way
Keywords
Simulation, digital twin
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