Transportation is vital for industrial facilities
Our simulation consultancy services cover a broad range of transportation challenges in industrial facilities, including the optimisation of rail and road transport, reduction of resource costs, and infrastructure design.
Industrial, especially production, facilities have to be flexible enough to adapt to rapidly changing conditions (demand fluctuations, failures, etc.), and at the same time they have to operate in a very efficient manner to save valuable financial resources. Our consultancy services can provide substantial support in the challenging task of operating and managing such transportation and production systems.
The Villon simulation tool, which is used in our consultancy projects, supports detailed modelling of transport operations in industrial facilities, including rail transport (factory sidings), road transport (trucks, forklifts, cars, etc.), specialised transport systems (cranes, AGVs, etc.), and storage operations (read more about Villon's features).
Let us help you with
- Adapting transportation systems to changes in production volumes
- Verification and evaluation of infrastructure or equipment changes (new cranes, sidings, etc.)
- Verification of new production facility designs
- Evaluation of interactions between rail and road transport
- Analysis of internal factory road traffic (e.g. intersection versus roundabout solutions)
- Optimisation of material, intermediate and product transport flows
- Determining the optimal number of loading and unloading bays
- Determining the optimal number of handling equipment (e.g. forklifts)
- Minimisation of transport personnel costs (shift planning, utilisation, ...)
- Rationalisation of transport operations in container terminals
- Adapting container terminal operations to new schedules
- Determining the optimal number of locomotives and personnel
- Warehouse capacity planning and sizing
- Identification of bottlenecks and their elimination
- Evaluation of the benefits of technical equipment modernisation
- Planning operations during maintenance or reconstruction phases
- and many other issues ....
Examples of our services for industry
BASF Ludwigshafen
BASF is the world's leading chemical company, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. TThe industrial sidings of the Ludwigshafen facility, comprising nearly 300 km of track, rank among the largest in Europe. The facility includes own marshalling yard with a double track hump, more than 20 classification sidings and enormous capacity of holding tracks. Each day, dozens of production halls have to be supplied with rail cars to deliver material and transport finished products. Some goods are also transported via the nearby KTL container terminal.
voestalpine Edelweiss
Facing the challenges of increasing demand for steel products, voestalpine steel producer decided to rise its production volumes and invest more than 5 mld. Euro to build a brand new steel production facility on the Black Sea cost (the project was codenamed Edelweiss). At the time of the study, the final location of the facility had not yet been determined. The proposed plant was expected to produce 5 million tonnes of steel per year.