Today’s manufacturers are all working without adequate skilled talent, due to the lingering skills gap. As a result, keeping today’s production facilities up-to-date and running at optimum capacity is a difficult task. When updates are required, it often triggers a cascade of associated changes on the shop floor, and often these changes are made without considering the long-term impacts, leading to chaos down the line.
Fortunately, virtual factory simulation software enables companies of all sizes to leverage their own data to create full digital replicas, or digital twins, of their factories. Using virtual tools, they can simulate the impact of changes to their actual factory before a single piece of physical equipment is moved.
Behlen Manufacturing, a small manufacturer in rural Nebraska, is using DELMIA Factory Simulation Engineer role on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to simulate factory flow and identify the optimal configuration.