ExtendSim Simulation and Spreadsheet-based Simulation Services

We can model any process or group of processes that can be described and quanitfied logically and systematically, including those with random variability.  This can include things such as: 

• Manufacturing plants and processes (both existing plants and designs for future plants)
• Complex supply chains including pit to port type systems for the mining sector, or order to client delivery systems for fast moving consumer goods businesses and more
• Fleet management problems (buying, phasing out, and maintaining vehicle or plant fleets in the most optimal way over long time horizons
•  Training systems like aircrew training systems that need to optimise student throughput and resource allocation
•  Mining processes like salt mining operations, coal mining operations etc.
•  Logistics and cargo systems like optimising how to move lots of stuff of different types via various transport means to multiple locations over time in the optimal way
• Energy consumption and reduction policies, like measuring the impact of decision to switch energy providers, or change machine types, shift schedules etc.
• Warehousing and distribution problems like balancing transport fleets against multiple warehouse sites and dispatch locations to minimise costs and time
• Workforce planning
• Acquisition and sustainment strategies
• And more...

We can also include advanced features to maximise the quality of your decision and business outcomes, including such things as:

• Robust cost modelling for all facets of the underlying activity, thus creating detailed cost and cash flow models generated by the detailed activities themselves
• Probabilistic elements that represent random systems in real life, like time between failure and time to repair, rainfall and other weather effects plus many more
• Integration with a statistics package to enable seamless data generation and subsequent 'decision quality' analysis
• Integration with MS Excel to seamlessly produce 'presentation ready' charts of key outputs and metrics
• Integration with ERP systems so the simulation can take 'current state' data from your live system and simulate forward in high fidelity

Statistical Analysis Capabilities

Being qualified at Master of Science level in the science of statistics enables us to provide services in:

• Data collection and cleansing
• Experiment design
• Statistical tests and their interpretation
• Visual statistical products for intuitive decision support

Decision Science Advice

Being specialists in Operations Research (the science of decision making), we can also help you with:

• Structured ways for groups to make good decisions under complexity and uncertainty
• Techniques to review and improve decision making processes and quality