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Case Study – Recovery of Debt

May 31st, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Process Improvement, SIMUL8

The National Audit Office (NAO) scrutinizes public spending on behalf of the UK Parliament. They are totally independent of Government. They audit the accounts of all government departments and agencies as well as a wide range of other public bodies, and report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which government bodies have [...]

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Case Study – Supporting Strategic Change

May 11th, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Process Improvement, SIMUL8

The National Health Service (NHS) is the world’s largest public health body, providing “free at point of use” healthcare to the UK’s 60 Million citizens.
In 2005 one of the regional bodies within NHS, Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board in Scotland, carried out a strategic review of emergency and unscheduled care, and the processes that deliver [...]

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Case Study – New ASRS Motor

May 5th, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Flexsim, Robotics

Introduction
A company specializing in automated storage/retrieval systems (ASRS) engineered a new type of motor to drive a vehicle on a rail system. The company’s main customer base consisted of warehouses and distribution centers that retrieved orders manually by fork truck or by hand. By installing an ASRS with this new type of motor, the company [...]

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Case Study – Simulating a Transplant Center

May 1st, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Healthcare, Process Improvement, SIMUL8

The number of chronic disease cases is growing at phenomenal rates as our general population ages. End-stage diseases of all the major organs: heart, lung, liver, kidney and pancreas ultimately rely on transplantation as the only means remaining to return a patient to reasonable health.
Because of this growth in demand, the line of patients waiting [...]

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General Mills in the US

May 1st, 2008 | By KennyMacleod | Category: Flexsim, News

General Mills has selected to standardize all companywide discrete simulation projects on Flexsim, so keep eating Cheerios and Wheaties cereals, Betty Crocker cakes, and Haagen-Dazs ice cream..

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