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Simio is a simulation software that allows users to model systems and see how they perform over time through 3D animation. It has object-based modeling where users select objects like workstations and conveyors to represent physical components. Simio can model systems like manufacturing, healthcare, supply chains, and transportation by simulating the flow of entities through resources. Benefits include seeing the impact of changes without disrupting the real system and bringing ideas to life. The example lab involves building a Simio model of a hot dog shop as a single-server queueing system.

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Simio

Simio is a simulation software that allows users to model systems and see how they perform over time through 3D animation. It has object-based modeling where users select objects like workstations and conveyors to represent physical components. Simio can model systems like manufacturing, healthcare, supply chains, and transportation by simulating the flow of entities through resources. Benefits include seeing the impact of changes without disrupting the real system and bringing ideas to life. The example lab involves building a Simio model of a hot dog shop as a single-server queueing system.

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Simulation Lab

Introduction to Simio (Software)


What is Simio ?
Simio is a tool for building and executing dynamic
models of systems so that you can see how they
perform.
Simio acts out and displays a 3D animation of the
behaviour of your system over time.
Simio lets you see your proposed systems in operation
before you build them or change them.
You select objects from libraries and graphically place
them in your model.
Objects represent the physical components in your
system such as workstations, conveyors, and forklift
trucks in a manufacturing facility.
Object-based modeling is a very natural and simple
approach to simulation modeling.
What things can we model in Simio?
Simio can be used to model a wide range of systems including
Manufacturing,
Healthcare,
Supply chain,
Transportation,
Defense,
Although these systems are all unique in their own respect, from a modeling
point of view they are very similar.
In all of these systems we have entities (work pieces, cutomers, trucks,
passengers, patients, etc.) moving through a system that is constrained by
resources (machines, pathways, security check points, doctors, etc.).

To model these systems you model the flow of entities through the system and
the resources that constrain that flow.
Benefits of Simio
Simulation lets you see the impact of change.
You can quickly make changes to your model to test out your
ideas without disrupting your real system.
With simulation you make your mistakes in the model, and
not in your business.
Changes may not always produce the desired or expected
results
Simulation brings your ideas to life by providing an animated
preview of a proposed change.
You can also record and graphically display key performance
measures for your system.
This helps in not only analyzing proposed changes, but in
communicating the benefits of those changes to the
stakeholders in the system.
The Simio User Interface
Introduction to the Standard
Library
Example

This lab involves building a Simio model of a hot-dog shop.


The hot-dog shop operates as a single-server queueing
system where customers arrive at the entrance, walk to the
counter, place, pay for, and receive their order, and walk
out the exit (see the figure to the right).
Customer arrivals are Poisson with a rate of 20
customers/hour.
Service times are triangularly distributed with parameters
(1.0, 2.5, 4) minutes.
The queue is FIFO.

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