Eurystic, an Argentinian consulting company, worked on a project for a large steel manufacturer that was searching for production planning and scheduling software to optimize the production schedule and forecast the system's behavior.
NLMK Manage Steel Center is a strip steel service center in Manage, Belgium. MSC planned to implement a set of modernization activities to increase throughput by 1.5x at their facility. This case study shows how simulation modeling helped MSC to select optimal configurations for the facility and improve their productivity.
Managers and engineers responsible for mining operations regularly face many difficult tasks. They have to make decisions and commitments while working in a complex mining system, where no component is isolated. With the help of Amalgama and one of the Big Four consulting firms, the largest European potash producer simulated the mining process using AnyLogic. A big potash mine is 8 x 8 km in size. 900 thousand tons are mined per month on three underground levels. The mine has 21 km of conveyor belts taking the ore through the system to the skip hoist.
Manufacturing and economic conditions are so complicated and unstable that it makes traditional scheduling methods ineffective. A major Eastern European steel pipe manufacturing plant decided to improve production planning using simulation software. In addition, the company wanted to minimize gaps and daily fluctuations of the orders handover, identify bottlenecks, and improve order routes.