Simio Scoop April 2025

The Simio Sync 2025 Speakers List and Topics are now live! This year’s must-attend event brings together the brightest minds in digital twin technology and simulation. From groundbreaking case studies to innovative applications, our expert speakers will share how they’re revolutionizing industries with Simio’s advanced solutions. Here’s a sneak peek at some of the featured presentations you can look forward to:

Enhancing Autonomous Mobile Robot Solutions with a Flexible Simulation Template

Optimizing Last Mile Networks for a Coca-Cola Bottler with a Strategic Routing Tool

Transforming Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing: Westinghouse’s Digital Twin-Based Scheduling Journey

Optimizing Training Efficiency with Traeser™: A Simulation-Based Approach by Lockheed Martin

Enhancing Patient Care Through Simulation: Optimizing Policies and Workflows in a Family Medicine Clinic

Enhancing Multisite Production Planning with Simio: A Dynamic Scheduling Tool for Increased Efficiency

Optimizing AGV Investments with Simulation: Enhancing Material Flow and Preventing Overinvestment

Scaling Global Production with Simio Modeling: Designing the Future State Factory

Discover How Simio’s Upcoming Python Integration Is Transforming Digital Twin Simulation

New & Upcoming Features in Simio: Material Storage, BOMs, PORTAL Experimentation & Scheduling, and NVIDIA Omniverse Integration

The First Digital Twin – Apollo 13

Fifty-five years ago, the Apollo 13 mission demonstrated the power of innovation under pressure. When an oxygen tank explosion threatened the lives of the astronauts, NASA’s use of physical replicas—an early form of digital twins—helped engineers find solutions that brought the crew safely home. Today, that same problem-solving spirit lives on in digital twin technology, now a game-changing tool for industries worldwide.

From real-time monitoring to predictive maintenance, digital twins have revolutionized how we design, manage, and optimize complex systems. As we celebrate the anniversary of Apollo 13, explore how this once-niche concept has evolved into a cornerstone of Industry 4.0 and beyond.

The Final Part in the Building Blocks of Simio Webinar Set is in One Week

Are you ready to take you Simio modeling skills to the next level? Join us for the last installment of the Building Blocks of Simio within the Simio Solution Series, where you’ll deepen your expertise and discover new techniques to elevate your simulations.

Building Blocks of Simio Modeling – Part III

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 11:00am ET

The final installment of our 3-part series, Building Blocks of Simio Modeling – Part III, concludes by focusing on project-specific techniques for effectively producing and visualizing results. Building on the foundational skills introduced in Parts I and II, this session explores custom object development, enabling Simio users to create models tailored to specific industries or applications. Additionally, we will introduce output tables and dashboard reports as powerful tools to enhance the analysis and presentation of simulation results. By the end of this 3-part series, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of Simio’s core concepts and the skills needed to confidently build and refine discrete event digital twin simulation models.

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Model Trace Enhancements

In recent Simio sprint releases, the functionality of the Model Trace has been greatly enhanced to give users a more customizable experience when debugging and validating process logic.

In process logic, every step now has a Trace Level property attributed to it that allows a user to specify ‘Default’, ‘Always’ or ‘Never’ regarding whether or not the step displays in the Model Trace output.

With ‘Never’ enabled for steps “Assign1”, “Assign3”, “Assign4”, and “Assign6” in this case, the output will suppress the trace message for those steps while returning the message for all other configured steps.

With ‘Always’ enabled on a step, even if Model Trace is disabled, the trace message will be displayed for that particular step. In the picture below, Model Trace has been disabled, but Trace Level property for “Assign1” and “Assign6” have been set to ‘Always’, writing those values to trace independent of the Model Trace setting.

On a process itself, when specifying the Allow Step Trace property to be ‘False’, it will disable trace messages from being displayed for tokens executing steps in the process. In this case, with all individual steps having the Trace Level property being returned to ‘Default’, since the value for Allow Step Trace of “Process2” is set to ‘False’, no trace messages will be displayed for that particular process. Bear in mind that the Trace Level property of ‘Always’ for an individual step will override this process-level configuration.

When preparing process logic to capture all of your model behavior, consider these Trace enhancements to save time as you develop your models!

– Provided by Drew Rose, Solutions Engineer at Simio

Edition 16: April 2025