Simprocess

Simprocess is a graphical block diagramming tool for modeling, analyzing and simulating. It is developed by CACI Products Company. The main characteristic of this product is, that it can be efectively used for making abstract models, that may help us to learn more about activities based on objects, services, resources or supply. These models can take place in situations when we are trying to understand some specific problem about activities which mainly need some resources. Because, as we known, in reality it is very difficult to find out reasons, to find out why is something happening, to do expensive experiments.

Simprocess allows us to easily create a business model, to do experiments, to work on it and see what happens, if we make changes in our abstract model. "Modeling and simulation techniques are a new area of activity involving marriage of ideas from various disciplines."

Models in management science
Models of various types are often used in management science. They are representations of the system of interest and are used to investigate possible improvements in the realsystem or to discover the effect of different policies on that system.

Simulations as experimentation
Computer simulaltion involves experimentation experimentation on a computer-based model of some system. The model is used as a vehicle for experimentation, often in a "trial and error" way to demonstrate the likely effects of various policies. Thus, those which produce the best result in the model would be implemented in the real system. Sometimes these experiments may be quite sophisticated, involving the use of statistical design techniques.

Practical use of Simprocess
Communications

Simulation applications are becoming increasingly vital in the communications industry. Local and wide area computer networks, telephone systems, national and intercontinental satellite communication systems, television cable networks, and celluar telephone systems are examples of complicated systems that demand the power of computer simulation for efficient design and operation. Several special purpose simulation tools are commercially available for communications systems analysis and design.

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Financial services

There are many reports of applications of simulation in banking, securities, and insurance companies. Transactions analysis, cash-flow analysis, office system design, materials and supplies planning, data processing and computer network design, and automatic teller machine and drive through service system designs are some of the activities that may be performed by simulation.

Hotel and hospitality services

Systems such as hotel, motels, and resort areas may be studied by simulation for determination of factors such as suitable capacities, sites, resource inventory management policies, manpower planning and scheduling methods, and reservation and booking system.

Health care

Hospitals, emergency rooms, physician and dentist offices, and paramedics are frequently studied by simulations to determine schedules for nurse and doctors, medicine and food inventory policy, and capacity plans for resources such as beds, waiting areas, operating rooms, test and survival equipment, and ambulances. In addition, epidemilogical studies such as forecasting rates of disease spread, and analyzing alternative disease-control policies are routinely performed by simulation.

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Manufacturing

All kinds of manufacturing concerns including chemical processing plants, automotive plants, furniture, electronics, machinery, tools, appliances, and so on use simulation extensively in applications such as strategic planing, midrange capacity and production planning, plant layout design, equipment selection, replacement, maintenance policy design, inventory planning and control, production scheduling, assembly line balancing, materials handling and storage, manufacturing information system design, and numerous other issues related to design, fabrication, assembly, quality control, packaging, storgace, and distribudion. The populatiry of simulation studies in manufacturing systems is rapidly increasing. Simulation is sometimes used because it allows alternative desingns and control policies to be tried out on the model before starting to build the physical plant. It helps to reduce the cost nad risk of large-scale errors. Simulation approaches are also used on existing plant to find better ways to operate, and these studies might be once-off exercises or may be part of a periodic check on the running of the system.

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Working with Simprocess


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