Plant Simulation

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
Developer(s) Siemens PLM Software
Stable release Tecnomatix Plant Simulation 12 / 2015 [1]
Operating system Windows 7&8 32 bit + 64 bit /Windows XP/Vista
Type Discrete event simulation
License Commercial
Website Plant Simulation

Plant Simulation is a computer application developed by Siemens PLM Software for modeling, simulating, analyzing, visualizing and optimizing production systems and processes, the flow of materials and logistic operations.[2] Using Tecnomatix Plant Simulation, users can optimize material flow, resource utilization and logistics for all levels of plant planning from global production facilities, through local plants, to specific lines. Within the Plant Design und Optimization Solution the software portfolio, to which Plant Simulation belongs, is — together with the products of the Digital Factory and of Digital Manufacturing — part of the Product Lifecycle Management Software (PLM). The application allows comparing complex production alternatives, including the immanent process logic, by means of computer simulations. Plant Simulation is used by individual production planners as well as by multi-national enterprises, primarily to strategically plan layout, control logic and dimensions of large, complex production investments.[3] It is one of the major products that dominate that market space.

Product description

Plant Simulation is a Material flow simulation Software (Discrete Event Simulation; DES Software). Using simulation, complex and dynamic enterprise workflows are evaluated to arrive at mathematically safeguarded entrepreneurial decisions. The Computer model allows the user to execute experiments and to run through 'what if scenarios' without either having to experiment with the real production environment or, when applied within the planning phase, long before the real system exists. In general the Material flow analysis is used when discrete production processes are running. These processes are characterized by non-steady material flows, which means that the part is either there or not there, the shift takes place or does not take place, the machine works without errors or reports a failure. These processes resist simple mathematical descriptions and derivations due to numerous dependencies. Before powerful computers were available, most problems of material flow simulation have been solved by means of queuing theory and operations research methods. In most cases the solutions resulting from these calculations were hard to understand and were marked by a large number of boundary conditions and restrictions which were hard to abide by in reality.

Languages

Plant Simulation is available in English, German, Japanese, Hungarian, Russian and Chinese. The user can create individual Dialog boxes using double-byte characters and offering individual parameterizations. The user can switch between the available languages.

Special features

Scope of application

Calculation of enterprise characteristics

Goal:

Visualization

Plant Simulation can display production sequences in 2D and in 3D. The 3D display is especially helpful as a sales tool or for in-house communication of planned measures. In addition it allows to present the entire system concept within a virtual, interactive, immersive environment to non-simulation experts.[4] The 3D engine is based on the industry standard JT format. CAD applications such as NX, Solid Edge can export models in this format. The 3D data files can be imported in the JT format '.jt' by using Drag-and-drop.

Used in

Plant Simulation is used in most industries. Especially in the

Lately material flow simulation gains growing importance through the increasing use for considering the sustainability of industrial production processes. Here the characteristics of sustainable manufacturing are simulated and analyzed beforehand and then integrated into the investment decision process.
Plant Simulation is also used for research and development purposes at a great number of universities and universities of applied science.

Application history

Year Company Product name
1986The Fraunhofer Society for Factory Operation and Automation develops an object-oriented, hierarchical simulation program for the Apple Macintosh SIMPLE Mac for Apple Macintosh
1990 AIS (Angewande Informations Systeme) founded SIMPLE++ (Simulation in Produktion Logistik and Engineering)
1991 AIS renamed to AESOP (Angewande EDV-Systeme zur optimierten Planung) SIMPLE++ (Simulation in Produktion Logistik und Engineering)
1997 AESOP acquired by Tecnomatix Ltd. 2000 SIMPLE++ renamed to eM-Plant
2004 Tecnomatix Ltd. acquired by UGS Corporation 2005 eM-Plant renamed to Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
2007 UGS Corporation acquired by Siemens AG[11] Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

References

  1. ↑ Phelan, Jim (Jun 23, 2009). "Siemens PLM Software Launches Tecnomatix 10 to Increase Planning and Manufacturing Productivity". Thomson Reuters 2009.
  2. ↑ "Plant Simulation". Siemens PLM. 2010.
  3. ↑ Koenig, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus. "Visual simulation - an appropriate approach to support execution planning in building engineering" (PDF).
  4. ↑ Jallas, Eric (February 2009). "Mechanistic Virtual Modeling: Coupling a Plant Simulation Model with a Three-dimensional Plant Architecture Component" 14 (1). Environmental Modeling and Assessment: 29–45. ISSN 1420-2026.
  5. ↑ Heinrich, Stephan (2008). "Optimizing the Color Sorting Store" (PDF). Promasim.
  6. ↑ Hanreich, Klaus (May 2005). "To shorten process times and retain ontime delivery of maintenanced aerospace engines, MTU Aero Engines built a new assembly hall that it designed to stabilize maintenance processes that are effectively supported by materialflow-oriented production methods" (PDF). Aerospace Engineering.
  7. ↑ Hasenschwanz, Werner (January 2009). "PRACTICAL AND USEFUL RESULTS; Process simulation in a brewery" (PDF). BBII.
  8. ↑ Steinhauer, Dirk (2008). "Simulation Aided Production Planning in Shipyards" (PDF). Flensburger Shipyard.
  9. ↑ Caprace, Jean-David (Journal of Harbin Engineering University, Vol.400 l.27 Suppl. December 2006). "Minimization of Production Cost by use of an Automatic Cost Assessment Method and Simulation". The AsiaLink-EAMARNET International Conference on Ship Design, Production &Operation. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ↑ Park, Eun-Jung (December 2007). "A SIMULATION MODEL WITH A LOW LEVEL OF DETAIL FOR CONTAINER TERMINALS AND ITS APPLICATIONS" (PDF). Proceedings of the 2007 Winter Simulation Conference, page 2004-2011.
  11. ↑ "Siemens AG to buy UGS". Dallas Business Journal. January 25, 2007.

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