Managing under uncertainty is not easy, especially when you’re facing new realities that have never been experienced before. How can you do proper forecasting for your business without relevant historical data? Simulation is the tool to help you with that.
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Solutions to healthcare challenges: from hospital design to disease spread
Simulation is a powerful tool that helps plan hospital design and consider its capacity and resource utilization. Testing changes in a simulation rather than in real life leads to efficient and effective solutions based on the analysis of test results. The technology was frequently and successfully used during COVID-19 for evaluating disease spread and mass vaccination. Read how simulation is used to tackle healthcare-related challenges.
Revolving doors for better pedestrian flow management
Revolving doors are the perfect solution for modern day living. They allow for the movement of people in and out, while maintaining the ideal climate inside the building. See how easy it is to make the most of a revolving door using AnyLogic simulation software.
Urbanism: how AnyLogic can help build superior cities
Urban design projects presented as physical models usually look nice and detailed, but when implemented they may reveal unexpected problems. Even if such models match the actual layouts, some dynamic factors that may affect the design get left out. Using simulation, you can consider the dynamics, which gives you a more complete picture of the system's performance over time.
Solving the Bin Packing Problem in warehousing and logistics – strategy comparison
When packing a container, every square inch of empty space is a money loss – either for you or your company. In warehousing and logistics, filling a container with items as tight to each other as possible to reduce the number of containers is a big deal. Decision Lab took it upon themselves to identify what techniques would help make packing quicker and more efficient. Read to learn more about the project and its results.
Importing data from external database — step-by-step guide
Simulation models are based on data, and when you import data from an external database, there’s an efficient approach that won’t affect model performance. Data from MS Excel/MS Access/MS SQL Server can be imported in a couple of clicks but what if it is stored in MySQL or PostgreSQL?
Follow our guide and learn how to connect data in PostgreSQL with an AnyLogic model to create a schedule.
Versatility of simulation – three projects and a video
Those of you who are already familiar with simulation modeling certainly know that it can be used in supply chain or manufacturing. Nothing unusual there. However, its application is much wider than that. In this blog post, we give an overview of three different projects demonstrating the versatility of simulation. For technical details, watch the video.
Randomness in AnyLogic: how it works and how to use it
Uncertainty is an essential part of our everyday lives. And when we build simulation models, we want them to reflect the real world as closely as possible. For that, you'd need to include randomness in your simulation.
Learn how to set randomness in AnyLogic models, what generates random results, what AnyLogic pre-set probability distributions are, and find helpful resources on the topic.
Streamlining the connection to trained ML models with the ONNX Helper Library
There are many cases where it’s desirable to incorporate trained machine learning (ML) models into a simulation model. Now, thanks to a new AnyLogic library, using ONNX ML models is easier and more efficient.
By incorporating this add-on library into your AnyLogic environment, your models can access its functionalities, just like with any other built-in library. It’s simply a matter of adding the helper object to your model and configuring it. Read on to find out more.