Case studies

When people are impacted by a natural or man-made disaster, utility companies look for ways to provide resources as soon as possible, and reduce outage time. To assist and better coordinate with each other, Canadian companies from closely located territories created alignments for mutual assistance. Engineers from York University applied simulation modeling to provide the utility companies with a better decision-making tool for managing the mutual assistance process.

Moscow State University supercomputer “Lomonosov” predicted social and economic development of Russia for the next 50 years. The evaluation was based on a model created in AnyLogic and data taken from Russian official sources.

Stockholm County, Sweden was in the process of building a new, highly specialized hospital. The Health Administration of the county questioned whether they would get an acceptable level of care production with the current investments and reasoning concerning various operational and strategic issues. To find the answers, they used simulation modeling in AnyLogic.

Banca d'Italia processes a certain amount of manual credit transfers every year. These transfers cannot be processed automatically and require two divisions of employees in the back office of the bank. The bank wanted to determine if merging these two divisions would be beneficial. The consultants employed AnyLogic’s unique capability to use different modeling methods and created two models of the system to ensure the result.

The supply chain management at Infineon, a huge semiconductor manufacturer, wanted to investigate the bullwhip effect in their market in order to decrease expenses and better forecast market behavior. They used AnyLogic software to build a model of a supply chain – from raw materials to the market.

IBS Group, the leading software developer in Central and Eastern Europe, was approached by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia to conduct the project, “Development of an Analytical System for Forecasting the Demand in Skilled Professionals in Russia’s Economy.” The aim of the project was to create an analytical system, which could help the Ministry plan for the subsidization of higher education from the federal budget.

An initiative by the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto, the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering (CRHE), was in response to the immediate and compelling desire for efficiency and quality improvements in the Canadian healthcare system.

The County of Stockholm (Sweden), like any country or region, experiences a continuous need to handle the healthcare necessities of various patient groups. Each group can be seen as a subpopulation, with its own distinctive traits, characteristics, and challenges. The discussed simulation project focused on the dialysis patients, a group who needs to visit caregiving facilities frequently.

Evans & Peck used AnyLogic software to simulate port berth capacity. The goal was to find out how much additional product could pass through the port without upgrading it.

The volume of cargo traffic in Russian ports quadrupled during the period from 2000 to 2016. The growth of cargo traffic led to the need to build new modern terminals. Another challenge, in this regard, was the choice between the creation of new terminals and the modernization of the existing ones. The managing company of Novorossiysk Sea Port planned to expand the existing trading terminal, so that, in the future, its capacity would increase to 1.2 million tons per year. For project implementation, the managing company hired an engineering company, Morstroytechnologiya, to devise maritime...