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Learn process simulation and process improvement
Guides, worked examples, and ideas to help you build a model you can trust, find the real constraint, and prove the fix before you change a thing.
What is a process?
A process is a series of steps and decisions involved in completing work. But the standard definition leaves out the three things that decide how a process really behaves: timing, interdependency, and variability.
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Foundations the rest of the library builds on.
Modeling guidesHow to gather the right information in a flash
How do you capture an organization's knowledge, experience, and procedures into a process model without setting everything on fire? Run the capture workshop like you have done it a hundred times. Here is how.
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Process improvementTen benefits of business process simulation
Business process simulation lets you model how work really behaves, then test changes before you commit to them. Here are ten ways it pays off.
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Modeling guides
Practical guidance for building clear, trustworthy models: what to capture, how to keep it simple, and how to get a result you can act on.
Modeling guidesAvoiding BPM technology landmines
BPM makes sense as a management strategy, but BPM technology is risky, expensive, and often oversold. Here are five landmines and one major blunder executives should avoid before spending millions.
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Modeling guidesBuild and test models faster
Real Data Modeling drives a simulation with actual order and patient records instead of fitted distributions. Models build in a fraction of the time, and testing is as simple as comparing known inputs to known outputs.
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Modeling guidesDefining objectives for business
A competitive edge comes from controlling your business with correct data on both products and processes. See how clear objectives and process simulation let you test improvements before you spend.
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Modeling guidesThe key to dramatic success with process improvement tools
A Process Breakthrough engagement targets one urgent business problem and solves it fast. See the three-step strategy that turns process improvement tools into measurable business value.
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Process improvement
Find the real constraint, test the change before you commit, and prove the gain. Ideas and methods for improving the way work flows.
Process improvementDon't leave money on the table, use process optimization
When a system has thousands of possible configurations, finding the best one by hand is hopeless. SimRunner runs the experiments for you and intelligently hunts down the optimal answer, sometimes after just 270 of 400,000 possibilities.
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Process improvementHow can you get lean when the fat keeps moving?
Spot-reducing one part of a process rarely moves the whole system. To get truly lean, you have to see the ripple effect everywhere, which is where value stream simulation goes beyond the map.
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Process improvementHow to overcome obstacles in process improvement
Process improvement interviews can hand you years of insight in an hour, if you can get past the stalling, defensiveness, crowded rooms, and red herrings. Here are the common obstacles and how to clear them.
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Process improvementJob shop bottleneck analysis and process improvement
In a job shop, every batch can take a different path through the machines, so the bottleneck moves with the work. A purpose-built model finds the constraint for the production you actually run.
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News and updates
Worked examples and the latest from the team, from reducing waiting time to finding the bottleneck on a busy line.
News and updatesHow to select a simulation consultant
Tight budgets push many companies to hire a simulation consultant for critical projects instead of building expertise in-house. Here are practical guidelines for picking the right one.
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News and updatesProcessModel release history
The running history of ProcessModel releases, led by the latest AI capabilities. Build AI turns a description into a working model, and Analyze AI reads your results and surfaces the insights that matter.
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News and updatesReduce modeling time by 80%
A United States window manufacturer built a mixed-model manufacturing simulation in under four hours by letting real production data drive the model. Here is the technique that cut their modeling time by 80%.
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News and updatesSimulation in process improvement projects
Consultants use many tools for process improvement, but few know exactly when simulation earns its keep. After forty years of projects, here is the litmus test for choosing the right tool.
ReadSee your process clearly, then prove the fix
Build the model, run the simulation, find the constraint, and show the improvement before you change a thing.