Melbourne Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) is building a new hospital, and needs to migrate between 150 to 200 young patients from the old 8-floor building to the new one, with wards on 6 floors. The hospital management determined that they had an 8-10 hour window for the patient migration, and decided to simulate the patient [...]

What to Simulate and Why In the second part of What is Simulation, we cover what you might simulate, and the benefits you might hope to achieve. What to Simulate? Simulation is often used when the real environment cannot be used or replicated. The real world version might be too expensive, too dangerous or just [...]

We have found that many people have heard about the use of simulation in computer games, but few know that it is one of the most powerful business analysis tools there is. This is the first of a series of articles describing what simulation is all about; with the focus on business use. Over the [...]

The long awaited Flexsim text book has been released. Dr Mal Beaverstock (Flexsim) & Prof. Alen Greenwood (Mississippi State Uni) have produced a structured, easy to read text book with plenty of modelling examples. Indicative price is $100 USD +Postage – The online ordering only caters for US & Canada, but we can get the [...]

TMN Simulation is now the Australian, NZ & Pacific Island distributor of vsTASKER.  We’ll add a whole new section to our website but in the mean time check out the developer’s website. http://www.virtualsim.com/products/vstasker.php3

TMN Simulation have a stall at Melbourne’s Material Handling Show. We exhibited last year and made lots of good contacts, hopefully this one will be as successfull. Stall J41 Melbourne Conference and Exhibition Centre (Jeff’s Shed) Tueasday 5th – Thursday 6th April If you’re in Melbourne, pop in and we’ll show you how simulation can [...]

Latest version of Flexsim Healthcare 3D simulation software released.

As we hit Q2 of 2010, it seems that optimism and business growth has returned to Australia. We managed to ride the wave of 2009 and have emerged slightly tumbled but able to stand upright again. The focus for 2010 needs to be economic and budgetary alertness but we need to start taking a more strategic approach to spending and costs of business.

Dr Mal Beaverstock, from Flexsim, has produced a Simulation text book that covers the core issues and provides an immersive approach to learning about simulation.

Gartner, IT industry commentators, put simulation in top 10 strategic technologies of 2010 …