Case studies

Issues such as whether households get enough food, how it is distributed within the household and whether that food fulfils the nutrition needs of all members of the household is an ongoing problem in developing countries. An International Civil Agency employed a Major Consulting Firm to analyze food insecurity in developing countries and cultivate a system that enables an economy to prepare for and halt possible food insecurity.

The energy lab INTELAB develops intelligent software solutions for distributed energy resources. They modeled intelligent control systems in AnyLogic based on a digital platform in order to manage smart distributed energy facilities. The use of AnyLogic reduced the time and costs for MVP (minimal viable product) of the platform and demonstrated its effectiveness.

Any underground works, be it in construction or mining, are distinguished by limited operating resources and space, as well as close interconnections between processes. As a result, specialists inevitably face uncertainties when developing schedules. To create a new project scheduling technique, a team of engineers opted to use simulation modeling software.

One of the largest oil and gas companies faced financial inefficiency from depleting deposits: approximately 20% of the deposits yielded little if any profit. In order to maintain a strong performance in a context of high uncertainty, the company had to make operational decisions about whether they should shut down or retain their marginally profitable wells, and whether it made sense to repair breakages.

The Novoportovskoye oil and gas condensate field is located in the Yamal peninsula and owned by the fourth-largest oil production company in Russia. Oil from the field is transferred via 100km pipeline to the sea terminal at Cape Kamenny, where it is loaded into arctic cargo tanks for further transportation. The main issues in planning tanker transportation in an arctic region are the harsh ice environment and difficult sea conditions.

The Moscow subway station and transport interchange, Volokolamskaya, is situated in the northwest part of town. The main road traffic in the area comes from the neighboring districts and the suburban parts of the Moscow region. ITS Consulting was contracted to test the efficiency of the planned roadway network during the peak traffic hours (morning and evening) with due regard to perspective increases of traffic within a timeframe until 2025.

Sheremetyevo is Russia’s largest airport, with an annual passenger throughput of 40 million people. The airport infrastructure is constantly expanding. Passenger Terminal B is to be commissioned in 2018, and in 2020 and 2023 it will be integrated with Terminals C1 and C2 which are under construction. Additionally, a plan is underway to expand the car parking area at the station square. These changes are expected to help increase the airport capacity and reach an annual throughput of 52 million passengers by 2024.

The offshore oilfield in the Pechora Sea is a project of a major Russian company for oil extraction on the Arctic shelf. Since it was designed for the Arctic region, the platform can be used in extreme weather conditions and withstand maximum ice loads, which makes it a unique and technically complex project. The first loading of oil from the platform to an arctic tanker was carried out in April 2014, while by 2021 the platform operator is planning to increase the rate of oil production up to five million tons. However, gained experience revealed that a marine transport system for oil...

A fast-growing company in the hair and body care industry needed to implement and support a sales and operations planning (S&OP) platform in order to improve and integrate their demand and supply planning processes. Using AnyLogic as production optimization software, ITE Consult developed the model that allowed the company to run a rough-cut capacity plan (RCCP) and play different scenarios. The company reduced inventory to safety stock levels, which was a huge saving for them.

A government agency worked with MOSIMTEC to deal with people flow management challenges in its security screening facility. They used AnyLogic simulation software to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance security, while at the same time removing the need for planned investment.