Case studies

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.

Kernel is the world-leading manufacturer and exporter of sunflower oil and provider of agricultural products from the Black Sea basin across world markets. The company owns 550,000 hectares of land and more than 40 grain elevators, with a total storage volume of up to 2.8 million tons. One of the company's regular challenges is the planning, harvesting, and transportation of agro-products.

CSX is a US railroad company that operates about 21,000 route miles (34,000 km). AnyLogic allows the railroad industry users to simulate line-of-road, terminal, and yard problems. The following three projects, completed by CSX in 2014, covered a variety of tasks that were solved using AnyLogic software.

Transocean is one of the largest offshore drilling companies that provides rig-based well construction services worldwide. Offshore oil and gas well construction is a complex process that takes a considerable amount of time. It demands certain sequences of both manual and semi-automated operations carried out in unison, as safely and efficiently as possible. Different kinds of equipment are usually created and operated independently. However, at the rig, all technical units are integrated. Any kind of delay in machinery increases the critical time path, which reduces the efficiency of the...

Port Botany is the second largest container port in Australia. Port management wanted to assess infrastructure and operational changes by using simulation modeling. GHD expanded the existing rail strategy simulation model developed by NSW Ports. This enabled them to optimize rail operations and maximize rail capacity.

InterBarge, a first-class waterway operator, affiliated with SCF Marine, a part of Seacor Holding Group, operates freight along the HPP Waterway (Hidrovia Parana Paraguay, located in Argentina, Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay) on a dedicated contract carriage. The company’s challenge was to use the boat capacity free from dedicated contract commitment as a fleet, maximizing net voyage revenue.

Relatively widespread use of electric vehicles and the need to support them with services and charging infrastructure, prompted General Electric Global Research team to conduct research into the related business demand and new technologies. For the project, the team developed two prototype models: a granular EV adoption model and a charging network simulation.

Symbotic is a warehouse automation solutions provider. Its systems are based on mobile robots that can travel freely throughout a dense storage structure, accessing products in all locations and handling them at a very high throughput rate. The company needed a tool to help their customers learn the impact of warehouse reorganization and compare capital investments against expected operational savings before the actual introduction of automation systems.

Sustainable bicycle transportation systems have generated broad expectations and have recently attracted focus in the scope of urban planning by alleviating traffic congestion and reducing noise and air pollution. Such bike sharing systems are easy-to-use and generally promoted by the public administration, operating by advertisement companies, transportation operators and, and public organizations.

An Indian consulting company BlueKei Solutions simulated, with AnyLogic software, the deployment in the agricultural field of drones for their client. As a result, the simulation showed a few insights that could avoid the extra investment in drones and better planning of the drone operations.