TranSystems is an architect and engineering company with over 25 years of modeling experience in the transportation industry. The company works on projects related to railroads, airports, seaports, roadways, transit supply chains, industrial facilities automation, and even quick-service type operations in restaurants and hospital facilities.
Cementos Argos is a cement producer in Colombia. Argos intended to optimize scheduling in order to avoid rotation delays or demurrage and use 100% capacity of each vessel. This case study shows how simulation modeling helped to accomplish supply planning up to 84% and vessel capacity utilization up to 99%.
In 2012, GE opened a new battery manufacturing plant in conjunction with the launch of an innovative energy storage business. GE’s exciting opportunity brought on many new challenges, such as increasing production throughput and yield under evolving processes and uncertainties, and reducing manufacturing costs in order to gain market share. The GE Global Research Center sought out a powerful and flexible tool to analyze, not just the specific process, but the manufacturing system as a whole.
A leading tire manufacturing and exporting company in Argentina wanted to adjust their transformation processes to increase productivity. They wanted to take a holistic view of the plant in order to understand and improve the whole process and not just one exact problem.
The public transportation company employed PwC Australia to develop a solution that could provide a customer-centric view of their railway infrastructure and help the company understand the current incident effects on rail network operations and how to improve the situation. PwC consultants decided to build a model of the transportation network that would simulate train movements, incidents, and customers at stations and in trains.
A leading food retailer in Portugal, Sonae MC, wanted to improve service quality and customer satisfaction without increasing operating costs. The AnyLogic model, developed by consultancy company LTP, provided the retailer with analytical support regarding the checkout dimensioning process.
Fannie Mae (The Federal National Mortgage Association) is a US government-sponsored enterprise that operates in the secondary mortgage market. It purchases and guarantees mortgages from lenders, such as banks and other financial institutions, securitizes them, and then sells them back into the secondary mortgage market as mortgage-backed securities. This provides market liquidity and helps stimulate activity. In 2018, Fannie Mae was ranked 21st on the Fortune 500.
One of the largest resource companies in the world, with over $80 billion in sales, decided to enter a new market. It was planning to build a new potash mine and export 90% of production. They wanted to design a reliable supply chain, with high-speed replenishment, and the ability to recover, or even benefit, from disasters, both natural and man-made. Amalgama and Goldratt were contracted to design the potash mining operations and a full supply chain for outbound logistics.
Phoenix Analytics is a Turkish consulting company and provider of simulation solutions for various industries. They were involved in developing a warehouse optimization project for one of the biggest ice-cream and frozen desserts manufacturers in Europe and Asia.
AREP, the subsidiary of «SNCF Gares & Connexions», developed a simulation model which optimized the utilizing of the Transmanche Terminal of Paris’ Gare du nord. The main goal was to reduce the waiting time upstream and at the points of control of passengers. The model enabled to locate, value and represent the possible dysfunctions in these areas.