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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's new in ProcessModel 7
ProcessModel 7 is a ground-up release. Your own AI app can read, change and run your models through PM AI Bridge, an Emergency Department palette models the whole department, and 41 ready-to-run models give you a head start.
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Foundations the rest of the library builds on.
Process improvementWhat 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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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 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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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. PM Optimizer runs the experiments for you and searches for the best answer in a fraction of the runs it would take to try them all.
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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 updatesWhat's new in 7.0.8468
Forklifts and technicians that travel real distances, an emergency department report written in your words, gates and routes that behave the way you drew them, and a page that helps your IT team connect your own AI.
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News and updatesThe toolbox gets sharper: three new tools
Three small tools that each remove an afternoon of work: price a run order before you commit to it, turn a pasted recipe into a working model, and watch the model tell you why it sent work the way it did.
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News and updatesForecast a software release like a factory floor
Manufacturing stopped guessing at delivery dates decades ago. Point the same simulation at a delivery team and you get what a spreadsheet cannot give you: not a date, but the odds of hitting one.
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News and updatesOne app, built for your industry
Turn on an industry palette and ProcessModel puts your industry's elements in front of you, already sized and named for the job. Turn on the Software lens and the whole model starts speaking a delivery team's language, without changing a single calculation.
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.