{"id":2458,"date":"2008-10-14T10:40:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T17:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Bye-Bye-Bottlenecks-With-Plant-Simulation\/ba-p\/333808"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:20:15","slug":"bye-bye-bottlenecks-with-plant-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/bye-bye-bottlenecks-with-plant-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Bottlenecks With Plant Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O3PIQsIgUVk\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Marcel Hoedeman of <A title=\"DAF Trucks \" href=\"http:\/\/www.daf.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">DAF Trucks NV<\/A> doesn\u2019t look like Eli Goldratt, author of <A title=\"The Goal\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Goal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Goal<\/A>, but his presentation provided strikingly similar conclusions to Eli\u2019s book.<BR \/><BR \/>DAF Trucks is a subsidiary of PACCAR Inc. and the worldwide quality leader in the design and manufacture of premium light, medium and heavy-duty commercial vehicles. DAF Trucks used our <A title=\"Tecnomatix \" href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix <\/A>software to:<BR \/>&#8211; analyze throughput, cycle time and work-in-process (WIP)<BR \/>&#8211; predict consequences of volume changes<BR \/>&#8211; optimize batch sizes.<BR \/><BR \/>In doing so and isolating certain processes, they realized they could nearly double output on one particular product line. Their project would have been a great case study for Eli\u2019s <A title=\"Theory of Constraints\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theory_of_constraints\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Theory of Constraints<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>In this video clip, Marcel highlights why they chose plant simulation software from us and reviews the conclusions they came to from the analysis.<BR \/><BR \/>(BTW, found these cool <A title=\"coloring pages \" href=\"http:\/\/www.daf.com\/EN\/DAF-Experience\/Pages\/Colouring-pages.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">coloring pages <\/A>on DAF\u2019s website &#8211; for those of you with small kids or those of you who are kids at heart.)<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcel Hoedeman of DAF Trucks NV doesn\u2019t look like Eli Goldratt, author of The Goal, but his presentation provided strikingly similar conclusions to Eli\u2019s book.    DAF Trucks is a subsidiary of PACCA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}