Lojas Renner S.A., a Brazilian retail company, purposed to change delivery operations. They simulated the last mile operations with AnyLogic and received valuable outputs for planning deliveries to their customers.
The world’s largest companies use data analytics to increase their revenue and keep up with the changing business world. But how does data science relate to simulation modeling, and what are the cases for the implementation of this interaction, primarily concerning value for the business? The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), a Fortune 500 group of companies, has answered these questions with real-life solutions.
The BNSF Railway Company is one of the largest freight railroad networks in the United States. The company has 32,500 miles of track in 28 states and three Canadian provinces, and more than 8,000 locomotives. Expanding the company’s existing facilities, and developing new facilities in intermodal segments, would require making large capital investments. To help evaluate various options of capacity expansion in major facilities, and make data-informed decisions, BNSF developed container terminal simulation models of the Corwith and Hobart facilities.
Intel factories used a particular type of equipment that often broke down, which caused capacity constraints. These expensive parts were used in critical factory operations, and the repairs took significant time, so it was necessary to have extra spare parts on hand to avoid downtimes. Broken parts caused constraints at some of the factories while other factories over purchased spares.
The European Institute for Energy Research constructed a digital twin that can be compared with the real world. The simulation investigated how the proportion of locally generated and used energy can be increased by intelligently controlling the generation and consumption of electricity and heat.
In 2008 there were three huge companies in the telecommunications market in Argentina. Each company wanted to enter the markets that they hadn’t covered yet, but the consequences of such actions had to be estimated. That’s why Telefónica decided to employ Continente Siete, a consulting company, to build a model of the market using AnyLogic multimethod simulation software.
Over the past 60 years, the number of Severely and Persistently Mentally Ill (SPMI) patients in the US living in the community increased. Yet a growing minority of people with severe illness are worse off because they are homeless or incarcerated. In this case study, IBM Global Research and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals used an agent-based approach to model these remarkable swings.
For a delivery network processing 15 billion parcels annually, simulation modeling provided significant saving across key metrics in a package easily accessible to all stakeholders. Find out how in this case study and presentation from Pitney Bowes.
Partnering with SimWell and the Simon Fraser University Beedie School of Business, the BCMEA created a digital twin of the Vancouver longshore labor dispatch. The digital twin supports medium and long-term strategies and predicts trends in demographics and technologies, modeling scenarios and enabling more informed decision making. Learn more in the case study.
GSS Inc. is a Canadian engineering company that provides strategic and technical consulting services with a strong focus on simulation and optimization in the context of major infrastructure and transformation projects. GSS helps clients in different industries including healthcare, airports, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. Their list of customers worldwide includes Johnson & Johnson, Bombardier, ABB, and Nikon, as well as Canadian government agencies.