Simulation Software for Design / Scheduling

Evaluate Change with Rapid Modeling

Simio's rapid modeling framework lets your quickly evaluate alternatives to reduce risk and maximize the impact of your investments in new equipment or processes. Learn more.

Reduce Risk and Improve Operations

Use Simio's patent pending Risk-based Planning and Scheduling (RPS) to employ the same model used for faculty design to also plan/schedule critical resources and assess the associated risk and cost in daily operations. Learn more.

3D for Impact

Out-of-the-box 3D animation. Our unique connection to thousands of free graphic symbols in Google's 3D Warehouse. Breathe life into your model. Click here to learn more.

Get Results Faster

Simio's rapid modeling, patent-pending simulation framework lets you get results faster without compromising flexibility.
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Risk-based Planning and Scheduling

Extend traditional tools to mitigate risk and uncertainty and reduce costs.
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An Experienced Team

Simio was created by the inventors of Arena and is backed by an experienced team of consultants and partners around the world.
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Enterprise Data In, Enhanced Output Analysis Out

Connect your models quickly and easily to enterprise data and use Simio's innovative analysis tools to compare alternatives.
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“...what gives a tool value is flexibility... Simio provides me greater value through flexibility with the addition of 3D animation. ”

John T. Carson, Staff Operations Engineer, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company.

Weekly Webinar: Rapid Modeling with Simio

Hosted by Simio CEO and Founder Dr. Dennis Pegden, this weekly live webinar, held each Friday at 11 a.m. EST, provides an overview of model building using intelligent objects in Simio. Each webinar is scheduled to run one hour in length and will be followed by a brief question-and-answer session.

Cost: Free. Registration is required. Click here to sign up.

This live tutorial provides an overview of model building using intelligent objects in Simio. At the end of 60-minutes you will be able to build object-based models in 3D for impact, enhance those models using Google Warehouse to provide compelling 3D animation, and analyze results in novel new ways.

This webinar will show you how simulation can be used to:

  • Reduce operational risk
  • Improve system productivity
  • Communicate ideas

35 Years Developing World Class Simulation Software

"I like how fast Simio is when I run experiments because it uses all the [processing] cores on my computer. 'Boom' and it is done!"

Anna Palmerius, Project Engineer, SAPA Group - Sweden

"The ability to test the planned facilities under various conditions enabled us to understand the different tradeoffs and deliver designs well suited to our customers' needs which can be expanded as traffic increases. Our de-icing simulator has now found its place among our standard analysis tools. Simio® was worth our investment."

Louis Roy, AECOM Senior Airport Planner. Case study.

"I've worked with a lot of different simulation software, and Simio is probably the most promising and exciting one I've seen in all that time."

Dr. David Kelton, professor and program director of the Master of Science
in quantitative analysis at the University of Cincinnati and 30-year-veteran of simulation.

"I'm amazed by the simultaneous ease of use and power of Simio. The object orientation augmented by the add-on process and agent-based capabilities makes Simio a terrific choice for serious simulation modeling and analysis. I'm confident Simio will quickly become the market leader in simulation software."

Dr. Gary Kochenberger, Professor of Decision Science at UC Denver Business School. To see the school's simulation software project, click here.

"Companies send their fast-track engineers to the MEM program to learn the state of the art---and that is what Simio represents in simulation."

Barry L. Nelson, Chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern.

"Our graduate students appreciate Simio's object-oriented approach and easy extensibility. I also will use Simio to introduce freshman engineers to simulation: the standard object library is easy to use and the animation is engaging. From a research perspective, Simio offers new opportunities for optimizing patient flow in healthcare systems using its intelligent objects."

Dr. D. J. Medeiros, Associate Professor at The Harold and Inge Marcus Department of
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State.

Simio Publications now in Second Editions

Simulation Modeling with SIMIO: A Workbook

Simio Workbook

Authors Jeffrey A. Joines and Stephen D. Roberts invite you to turn on your computer, load Simio, and get ready to learn the simulation software with this "participatory style" workbook. This book expects your active participation in using Simio as you turn the pages.

Simio and Simulation: Modeling, Analysis, Applications

Simio Textbook

This McGraw-Hill textbook was created by a team of simulation experts led by noted author W. David Kelton. It is targeted for use as the primary text in introductory and second courses in simulation at both the advanced-undergraduate and beginning-graduate levels. It is written in a casual style to promote easier learning.




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Brazil's Leading Ethanol Producer Finds Simulation Offers Fast, Picture-Perfect Analysis of Agricultural Operations

With over 44.2 million tons of sugarcane processed, 1.7 billion liters of ethanol and 3.3 million tons of sugar produced, Brazilian clean energy manufacturer Cosan has earned its place as world leader in its agricultural manufacturing niche.

Bottom Line: The planned 2011 capital expenditure requirements are reduced by eleven full cane transport sets.

The value gained by using simulation is that senior management gets a predictive risk analysis. The risk analysis covers a 240-day season factoring in labor variations, unplanned downtime, non-optimal equipment speeds and other uncertainty. The model proved to be very similar to the real dynamics of Cosan's operation for a cane sugar harvest and internal movement in the plant.

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Announcing Simio Enterprise for Risk-based Planning and Scheduling (RPS)

Enterprise Edition

Now you can extend the use of your facility model to also plan/schedule your daily operations. Simio not only helps you improve your business performance from a facility design perspective, but also helps you maximize business results by optimizing your daily use of critical resources and assess the risk/cost associated with your daily operational decisions. Custom tailor reports, graphs, and tables for use by schedulers. Reduce your risk and costs by analyzing your schedules in ways never before possible.

Scheduling Edition

Simio Scheduling Edition provides planners and schedulers with a customized interface including the tools they need to get the most out of your facility. Scheduling Edition allows generating schedules, performing risk and cost analysis, investigating potential improvements, and viewing 3D animations. Requires that an Enterprise Edition be used to create the model and customize the interface seen by schedulers.

Click here to learn more about using Simio for Risk-based Planning and Scheduling.

Weekly Webinar: Rapid Modeling with Simio

Hosted by Simio CEO and Founder Dr. Dennis Pegden, this weekly live webinar, held each Friday at 11 a.m. EST, provides an overview of model building using intelligent objects in Simio. Each webinar is scheduled to run one hour in length and will be followed by a brief question-and-answer session.

Cost: Free. Registration is required. Click here to sign up.

This live tutorial provides an overview of model building using intelligent objects in Simio. At the end of 60-minutes you will be able to build object-based models in 3D for impact, enhance those models using Google Warehouse to provide compelling 3D animation, and analyze results in novel new ways.

This webinar will show you how simulation can be used to:

  • Reduce operational risk
  • Improve system productivity
  • Communicate ideas