Arena Newsletter and Blog

If your team is consistently underperforming, you’ve got a tough road ahead.  I hate to break it to you, but in our consulting practice we find that people can and want to perform well, and it’s most often the systems put in place that force underperformance. 

Arena allows you to define conveyor operation as a fixed path for material movement with pre-defined entry and exit points using the modules on the Advanced Transfer panel. Each entity to be conveyed must wait for sufficient space on the conveyor in order to gain entry and start transferring. When the entity reaches the end of the conveyor, the conveyor is disengaged until the entity is removed from the conveyor or conveyed to another station.

Arena is innovating simulation of high speed systems.  We’re solving bigger problems, faster, and more accurately to help our customers remain competitive in their fast paced business.

One of the best things about my job is that I get to work with many different companies in various industries across the globe. I’ve had the opportunity to tour a tire manufacturing plant in Korea, go down (under) mines in Australia, get a behind the scenes look at a Life Sciences facility in China, help healthcare organizations improve patient quality of life from the US to Hong Kong, and learn the inner workings of a national supply chain for live hogs here in the U.S. (yeah, it’s complex, it’s fascinating, and I wrote about it here).

70 Teams around the globe compted for this honor.

The response to our release of Arena v15 is astounding.  Users with 20+ years of experience have expressed their excitement to reduce modeling time by days/weeks, and new users are diving into more complex problems more quickly.  What’s all the fuss about?  We share 6 Things You Need to Know about Arena v15 below. 

(that no one wants to talk about)

While the technical approach to creating a simulation project is documented and widely understood, there are very important aspects of the process that are not often discussed but which are critical to the success of the project.  Nancy Zupick and Melanie Barker, two of our expert engineers, share four key elements in this post that are imperative to conducting an effective simulation study and how they impact the progress of the study.  If you’d like to read the all of Nancy and Melanie’s thoughts on this topic, download the white paper linked below. 

Welcome back to the Arena A to Z column! This month it’s time to cover B, so we’re going to go over Boolean expressions. Boolean expressions are logical statements, such as 2 + 2 == 4, which can be evaluated as either true or false. Within the statements, AND (&&) and OR (||) can be used to build more complex expressions. With the statements built, a truth table like the one below can be developed to understand the potential results of the expressions.