Case studies

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.

Explore how the Engineering Group team navigated the digital transformation and manufacturing optimization of a drilling power section company. The innovations helped evaluate equipment upgrades and organize production scheduling. Follow the case study on implementing simulation models for further integration of a decision-support tool in the production workflow.

Explore how digital transformation in manufacturing reshapes automotive OEM production flow. This case study represents how Bravo Delta Simulation implemented modeling technology for the production planning optimization of a Tier 1 automotive supplier. Learn how it helped Mayco International leverage new approaches to enhance production processes, meet customer demand, and drive growth.

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.

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.