FlexSim in Academe: Teaching and Research

This book describes a variety of teaching and academic research applications that effectively utilize FlexSim to: (1) provide guidelines, methods and tools for simulation modeling and analysis in a variety of educational settings and (2) address a variety of important design and operational issues in industry. Simulation is increasingly proving to be an important tool for supporting decision-making and problem-solving processes in many disparate domains, including the design, management and improvement of a wide range of operations systems in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, etc. Achieving resource efficiency and minimizing negative externalities from operations represent two of today's greatest challenges; modern simulation methods can help to overcome them. FlexSim is a prominent software package for developing discrete-event, agent-based, continuous, and hybrid simulations.

Presents case studies and best practices from the academic world and industry Provides an assessment framework for practitioners Includes tips on how to improve the sustainability of operations in manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, etc.

Inhalt
FlexSim use in didactics, thesis and research in the context of competences for the Industry 4.0.- On the use of projects in simulation courses.- Increasing High School Students' Interest in Industrial Engineering through a Summer Camp.- Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks.- DES as tool for the decision-making in an offshore manufacturing foundation process.- 3D Discrete Events Simulation to Evaluate the Internal Logistic Strategies in a Shipyard.- The methodology of modeling and simulation of human resources and industrial robots in FlexSim.- Determining of the optimal number of trailers for Milk-Run intralogistics system.- Implementation of calculation for simulation of Milk-run intralogistics system.- Using CSP Solvers as Alternative to Simulation Optimization Engines.