Introduction An engineering company needed to more fully understand the workings of a bicycle factory system. Flexsim created a simulation model for them of an imaginary bicycle factory, Swoosh, which works very similarly to existing factories. The Problem The system has many potential bottleneck points where excess parts can queue up.There are many machines that [...]

Flexsim was recently used to model warehouse operations at the US Army Medical Material Center, Europe (USAMMCE). USAMMCE is responsible for distributing medical supplies and equipment to military installations all across Europe and the Middle-East. The main warehouse is currently installing new racks and introducing new equipment. The model was intended to show how many [...]

The Problem As the average age of the United State population gets older, certain cancer screening test have become more common. As a result, the need to increase capacity to service more patients each day has become a primary concern. The current testing procedure uses a diagnostic device that is expensive and requires extensive patient [...]

CHEP is the world’s leading pallet and container pooling company. CHEP, part of the $11 billion Brambles Group, operates in 38 countries across 6 continents, providing equipment pooling services to many industries. The Challenge Pallet and container pooling is the shared use of high quality pallets and containers by multiple customers or users. CHEP maintains [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]