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Not all mining equipment failures have the same impact on production—simulation with MineTwin shows that downtime for one class of equipment reduces throughput ...
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In mining operations, bottleneck steps—like shovels or crushers—dictate overall system throughput. Ensuring these bottlenecks are never idle (starved) is critic...
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MOSIMTEC uses simulation models as sales tools to help quick service restaurants (QSRs) and equipment vendors demonstrate the value of product holding units (PH...
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At MOSIMTEC, we often say our job is to answer the questions our clients are not asking. If a system has complex (or even simple) interactions and variability, ...
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Six ways digital twins can help manufacturing be ready for the Industry 4.0 age. From predictive maintenance to customization-at-scale.
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The National Academy of Engineering released a report highlighting key research gaps and future directions for digital twins, emphasizing their transformative p...
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MOSIMTEC's digital twin of Sibanye-Stillwater's Nye Mine reduced backfill scheduling time, provided early visibility into bottlenecks, and enabled more frequent...
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Digital twins can help oil and gas companies reduce emissions, optimize production, and enhance operational efficiency by integrating real-time data from physic...
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MIT Technology Review’s top 10 technologies for 2024 highlight advancements in AI, renewable energy, computing, and healthcare, including generative AI, super-e...
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MineTwin (MT) is a powerful simulation-based decision support tool that helps underground and surface mines optimize operations by modeling real-world constrain...
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MOSIMTEC’s healthcare simulation solutions optimize patient flow, resource scheduling, and business processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve p...
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Usage of drones for commercial purposes continues to grow every day. Drones can help in multiple industries – retail, agriculture, mining, oil & gas, rail a...
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The oil & gas industry is a hotbed of innovation, driven by the need to increase production, reduce cost, improve safety and cut the carbon footprint. Digit...
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The Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) industry is growing fast. Key challenges include meeting order demand at peak times, problems with procurement/inventory mana...
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Like AI a few years ago, digital twins (DT) have moved from highly specific applications into a widespread management best practice. DT is replacing historical ...
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Facebook went all in on the metaverse. They changed their name to Meta and spent billions, but now see a decline in excitement around the idea. They laid off th...
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The Association for Engineering Management (ASEM) recently released the 3rd Edition of The Engineering Management Handbook, which includes a chapter on simulati...
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In emergencies, internet can be cut which hinders communication for response/rescue. MOSIMTEC worked with Danish university students to create a UAV model to me...
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ChatGPT has made AI a household word. AI is now taking Digital Twins (DT), a top technology trend, to the next level. AI can improve DT efficiency by providing ...
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Financial Models In this MOSIMTEC monte carlo simulation model built with AnyLogic, the user can enter a wide variety of input values...
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Per Northrop Grumman (NG), the use of digital twins (DT) is key to digital transformation success. NG helped found the DT Consortium and works with government/i...
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An Event Graph is a graphical representation of a discrete system for which a static simulation algorithm can work on. It is an intermediary step between system...
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Per The AnyLogic Company, the key elements of a digital twin (DT) are a dynamic simulation model and data that reflect the current state of a live system. DT’s ...
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Industry 4.0 is causing a convergence of manufacturing processes and software in the industrial sector. DigitalTwin Technology GmbH (DT) is a software tool that...
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I(Coleman Kredich) have had the privilege to work for MOSIMTEC this past summer (2022). Going into this internship, I thought I was going to just be doing busy ...
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Each year brings new technology trends. Many of these are now changing how we live and work – digital twins, IoT, remote work, crypto and more. So what are the ...
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Digital twins (DT) are virtual portrayals that act as the real-time digital equivalent of any physical asset or system. Per Emergen Research, the DT market is e...
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Hospitals are creating digital twins (DT) of patient care units. The DT can help enhance processes, improve patient experience, cut operating cost and increase ...
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Per Simio Software, Industry 4.0 systems such as IoT, big data, and AR will help mining companies achieve 10X ROI. Using process digital twin technology will en...
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Digital twins (DT), virtual representations of the real world, are going mainstream in all shapes and forms. NVIDIA and Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offer simu...
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The oil and gas industry is increasingly leveraging digital twins to improve decision-making. Per GlobalData Plc, COVID increased the need to reduce cost and ma...
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Traditionally, production plans and schedules are essentially obsolete given deviations from the original plan. Simulation and Risk-Based Planning and Schedulin...
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Simulation/Digital Twins are a pillar of Industry 4.0. A Digital Twin (DT) is a virtual simulation of a real world machine, product, process or system based on ...
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A Guide to Simulation Software Selection “What is the best simulation package?” is a question MOSIMTEC consultants are often faced with. However, there is no s...
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A chemical manufacturer was constructing one of the largest petrochemical facilities of its kind, designed and built in a single phase. The production facility ...
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Gartner identified “Digital Twins” as Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2017, 2018 and 2019. A digital twin is a “dynamic virtual model of a process, prod...
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Breathtaking changes in technology have led to immense changes in computer simulation. Simulations of today can process huge amounts of data, incorporate loads ...
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Photo: UnsplashComputers are well-suited for solving complex mathematical relationships involving large sets of variables. This capability sets them apart from ...
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In an earlier post, we defined simulation as “a replication of a real-world process or event in an environment that is isolated or disconnected from its real-wo...
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(Source: Simio via AssemblyMag) In general, a business process would play out through multiple, different events in sequence. As an example, let’s think about...
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(An Example of ABM in Agriculture Pest Control Studies. Source: University of Surrey) An agent-based model (ABM) analyzes the impact of an individual on a syste...
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Lean Manufacturing is undoubtedly a go-to methodology for improving complicated manufacturing processes. For many companies, the allure of eliminating wastef...
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A simulation is a replication of a real-world process or event in an environment that is isolated or disconnected from its real-world counterpart. This conce...
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In the best of times, your inventory can be a profitable asset, and in the worst of times, a costly liability. Depending on the situation, too much or too lit...
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Just when you thought that your assembly plant, mining operation, transporters, and team were working in unison to drive revenue growth goals, something caused ...
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Regardless of your industry, improving efficiency is of paramount importance. After all, it can mean cutting down on costs, maximizing employee time, and in th...
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Bottlenecks can be the bane of a project manager’s existence, especially if their mandate is removing obstacles and improving manufacturing efficiency. Bottlen...
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In many industries, value stream mapping is a useful tool for visualizing the process it takes to deliver a product or service. In fact, the practice of value ...
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In the history of commerce, there’s never been a business that didn’t have its fair share of operational issues. And, as is often the case, the bigger the busi...
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Simulation Modelling from MOSIMTEC critical in Walmart’s decision making process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC2RGsr_rdU Herndon, VA: MOSIMTEC, a g...
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Yusuke Legard is a Varsity Swim Team Captain at Duke University who interned at MOSIMTEC as a Simulation Consultant in the summer of 2018. The Men’s 100m Butt...
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Drones are developing rapidly; their capabilities are increasing and the costs reducing. Their increased use will lift the UK GDP by 2% according to a PwC repor...
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Amy Greer of MOSIMTEC began an interesting thread on our LinkedIn group. It details some of the useful changes beyond the headline updates in AnyLogic 8.3. We t...
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The challenges faced by the mining industry are only getting more complicated, but the call for reducing operational costs and increasing profitability are a co...
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In the mining industry, stakeholders are of multiple types. Internally, there is the workforce - i.e. a critical driver to maintaining productivity. Externally,...
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The inherent complexity surrounding mining projects makes these initiatives both very valuable and incredibly risky. In fact, the risk emerges right from the on...
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Businesses looking to stay ahead of the curve are constantly searching for new strategies that will put them ahead of their competitors. One such strategy is ...
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The efforts of the US-based non-profit Global Fund to End Modern Slavery got a boost in its fight to combat modern day slavery with the funding from the United ...
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When business process simulation and modeling is not your core activity but a shared service in your organization, you should consider outsourcing that work to ...
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While process simulation is not typically a mainstay of hospital planning, it is being used more frequently by organizations to better understand their systems....
Read More →Every time a business faces uncertainty across the landscape and is unsure about what the problem is, where the solution lies or where to even start, Simulation...
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MOSIMTEC has recently completed simulation models for clients in crude oil and refined products storage and transportation logistics. We wanted to share how o...
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Love the movie Moneyball. It is a great example of what numbers can do to answer those tough questions you have about your operations. How you can build a tea...
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Too often I have seen projects go off track due to certain stakeholders I like to refer to as Table Pounders. These are the ones that will speak the loudest and...
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Simulation models create heaps of performance data for every component in a modeled system (transactional, state, and usage data). However, understanding what...
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I'm writing this post because I feel I left some things unsaid from my last post - On Our Watch. This was mainly spurred from the great comments from fellow e...
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I am disappointed in my fellow engineers. Lately our world has been affected in a negative way due to our actions. I'm talking about the recent investigations i...
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There are a lot of stats on the high percentage of senior leaders making decisions from intuition or gut instincts, but I won't quote any of those here as 50% o...
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In my past experience I have worked on both the engineering side as well as the client when evaluating project scope. Too often I have seen infrastructure inc...
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Visual Analytics is key to validating simulation models. Allowing the decision makers to gain comfort that the model is performing as it was intended is being...
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A picture says a thousand words. A motion picture tells a story. Simulations bring your operations to life! At MOSIMTEC, we will allow you to better underst...
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