Plant Simulation

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Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
Developer(s) Siemens Digital Industries Software
Stable release
Tecnomatix Plant Simulation 2201 / 2022 [1]
Operating system Windows 10&11 32 bit + 64 bit /Windows XP/Vista
Available inEnglish, German, Chinese
Type Discrete event simulation
License Commercial
Website Plant Simulation

Plant Simulation is a computer application developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software for modelling, simulating, analyzing, visualizing and optimizing production systems and processes, the flow of materials and logistic operations. [2] Plant Simulation, [3] allows users to optimize material flow and resource utilization and logistics for all levels of plant planning from global production facilities, through local plants, to specific lines. Within the Plant Design and 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, and control logic and dimensions of large, complex production investments. [4] It is one of the major products that dominate that market space.

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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 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, and 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 were 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 that 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 be used to display production both in 2D and 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. [5] 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, most noticeably:

Application history

YearCompanyProduct name
1986The Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation develops an object-oriented, hierarchical simulation program for the Apple Macintosh SIMPLE Mac for Apple Macintosh
1990AIS (Angewande Informations Systeme, Stuttgart) foundedSIMPLE++ (Simulation in Produktion Logistik and Engineering)
1991AIS renamed to AESOP (Angewande EDV-Systeme zur optimierten Planung)SIMPLE++ (Simulation in Produktion Logistik und Engineering)
1997AESOP 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 [12] Tecnomatix Plant Simulation

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