In today's fast-evolving technological landscape, digital twins and discrete-event simulation (DES) are reshaping how industries design, monitor, and optimize complex systems. Digital twins, virtual replicas of physical systems, are created and continuously updated using simulation...
Read MoreDigital twin software continues to reshape industries with market projections reaching $125.7 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 39.48%. Large enterprises have embraced this technology, and 70% of C-suite technology executives actively invest in digital...
Read MoreGetting the manufacturing industry to its pre-pandemic levels is one challenge majority of CIOs have to deal with as economies open up. On top of the challenges Covid-19 brings, stakeholders in the manufacturing industry must...
Read MoreEveryone wants to cut costs. No one wants to spend unnecessarily. When budgets are tight, software and software projects are an easy place to cut. Staff positions like Industrial Engineers are sometimes easier to cut...
Read MoreCan chaotic systems be predicted? I guess we first need to agree on exactly what a chaotic system is. BusinessDictionary.com defines it as a “Complex system that shows sensitivity to initial conditions, such as an...
Read MoreBy Jeff Joines (Associate Professor In Textile Engineering at NCSU) This is the second of the three part series on Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, and Simulation. The first part explained the Six Sigma methodologies. Recall...
Read MoreBy Jeff Joines (Associate Professor In Textile Engineering at NCSU) This is a three part series on Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, and Simulation. The first blog will explain the Six Sigma methodology and the bridge...
Read MoreAssembly processes are a common part of manufacturing and can be found in applications as diverse as apparel, electronics, automotive, aerospace, and even food processing. Assembly operations share many common simulation applications with general manufacturing,...
Read MoreSystems rarely perform exactly as predicted. A person doing a task may take six minutes one time and eight minutes the next. Sometimes variability is due to outside forces, like materials that behave differently based...
Read MoreGuest article from Sophie Scotts Over the past several months you have touched on many fields that simulation would benefit such as healthcare and disaster management. I would like now to recall something you said...
Read MoreOver the years, I have had several occasions to use medical facilities for myself and my family. Some visits were routine, such as for a diagnostic tests or images. Others were for much more critical...
Read MoreWhile the last couple months have been pretty dry where I live here in the Northeastern part of the U.S., in the Southeastern part several severe hurricanes have already hit and it looks like more...
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