{"id":2532,"date":"2019-10-23T17:33:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:00:57","slug":"day-3-highlights-realize-live-for-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/day-3-highlights-realize-live-for-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 3 Highlights – Realize LIVE for Simulation Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Realize LIVE for Simulation Conference (aka Plant Simulation Worldwide User Conference), October 15-17, 2019, was a great success. According to Matthias Heinicke, Business Lead Plant Simulation, 330 participants went home happy and inspired by the spirit of worldwide teamwork. The annual conference in Stuttgart, Germany, brought together Samsung from Korea, Electrolux from Sweden, and Rolex Switzerland with Lego Denmark and Swarovski.  The final day of the conference wrapped up with a series of presentations delivered by partners, customers and Plant Simulation experts from Siemens. Read the highlights from day three of the conference: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Large scale 3D Plant Simulation models used at SSI Schaefer in intralogistics – lessons learned<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Lars-Boris Bottcher, SSI Sch\u00e4fer <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For 6 years Lars-Boris B\u00f6ttcher is responsible for the simulation and data analysis department of the SSI Sch\u00e4fer Automation Group. His team is conducting simulation studies for all market sectors worldwide, evaluating and optimizing concepts in the field of intralogistics. Before he worked another 6 years as consultant and technical sales manager in the field of simulation and emulation. During his studies of computer science he already focused on simulation, writing his master thesis about simulation of supply chains at Volkswagen AG in 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation summary:<\/strong> Following a\nconstant growth over the few last decades, simulation in intralogistics has\nexperienced a surge within the last 3 years. This is due to an increasing size\nand complexity of systems and smarter solutions.  Current discussions about AI and Digital Twin\nare amplifying this effect.  Observing\nthe market, different tools are competing in 3D animation, offering high\nquality 3D visualizations.  Therefore,\nSSI Sch\u00e4fer was using 2D simulation in addition to 3D animations. This changed\ndue to the improved 3D capabilities of Plant Simulation software. SSI Sch\u00e4fer\nis constantly expanding its 3D modeling, meanwhile running the largest and most\ncomplex studies with >250,000 simultaneously moving items in 3D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this talk Mr. Bottcher, shared experiences, limitations, concepts, quick wins and motivations in large scale 3D models.  He also showed examples of large intra-logistics simulation models naming run-times, pitfalls and lessons learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plant Simulation scheduling use cases in the Consumer-Packaged Goods Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Stefan Pfaff, PPI-Informatik<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stefan Pfaff studied Production Engineering in Aalen, where during an intern he had contact with SIMPLE++, the predecessor of Plant Simulation.  After two years at AESOP Consult, he co-founded PPI-Informatik together with three other colleagues in 1996. The focus of PPI is providing Simulation Consulting in production and logistics, where Stefan is involved in most of the projects related to production and optimization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation summary<\/strong>: PPI recently\nwas involved in many projects focusing on Production scheduling. These projects\nfor different manufactures of different products share a common problem to be\nsolved. How to schedule the sequence of the production orders in a way to\nmaximize throughput, without violation of the complex constraints and rules that\ndefine a valid schedule for the specific operation. In most cases the\nconstraints are linked to complex rules for resource allocation or to avoid\ndowntimes by minimizing cleaning and set up operations which result from the\nsequence the orders are processed during manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically, these types of restrictions are difficult to handle for classical ERP-based scheduling tools. PPI showed how simulation-based Scheduling Tools based on a Plant Simulation process model and an Optimizer, which is also build with Plant Simulation, works. Several use cases illustrated the benefit of this Simulation-based Scheduling approach and gave an overview of how to approach these types of projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stefan Pfaff, PPI-Informatik <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Modeling of worker impacts in automated body shop lines (approach and findings)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter<\/strong>: Steffen Bangsow, Steffen Bangsow Advanced\nSimulation Services<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steffen\nBangsow has been working with material flow simulation since 1999. He already\nused previous versions of Plant Simulation, such as Simple++ and eM-Plant.\nSince 2002 Mr. Bangsow has been in the business of factory planning e.g. for\nautomated production lines. In addition, he is the author of several books on\nPlant Simulation in German and in English. Mr. Bangsow works as an independent\ncontractor for discrete event simulation projects as well as an instructor. He\nis teaching Plant Simulation basic, advanced and customized training classes.\nIn his role as Plant Simulation mentor, he officially received the title of\nPlant Simulation black belt, leading the list of Plant Simulation related articles\nwith over 900 Kudos in the Plant Simulation forum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation summary:<\/strong> In order to\nmodel the impact of the workers on the throughput of a body shop line, both\nrobots and workers must be modeled in detail with their processes. The\npresentation showed several approaches to do this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 modeling\nof assembly (welding, riveting, folding, screwing\u2026) and handling robots<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 modeling\nof robots on rails (7th axis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 modeling\nof workers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 linking\nof robot and worker processes (e.g. modeling of worker gates)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 impacts of workers: e.g. missing the gate open-times, delays in case of failures, \u201cbridging\u201d of buffers <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steffen Bangsow, Steffen Bangsow Advanced Simulation Services <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Digital Factory Planning for Additive Manufacturing in the automotive industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Niklas Natterer, Siemens AG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niklas Natterer studied International Production Engineering and Management at the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He started his career as Consultant for Plant Simulation and Line Designer at Siemens PLM. In his current position, as Consultant at Siemens Management Consulting (SMC) Operations, he is focusing on the topics – digital factory planning and industrialization of additive manufacturing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation summary:<\/strong> Looking at the\nprocesses of additives production, so you quickly realize that the printing\nprocess itself represents the bottleneck of the production. Due to long\nprinting times, the upstream and downstream, mostly manual, processes are at\nfirst glance irrelevant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But since\nthe printing process itself can be well parallelized and current machines can\nbe easily automated, this raises the question of the ideal production line. As\nthere are currently few simulation studies for AM, it was decided that\ncooperation between Siemens and the Additive Manufacturing Center should be\npromoted at the BMW Group. The aim of the cooperation was to gain experience\nbased on two examples, such as a tool set for the simulation of AM. additive\nmanufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Niklas Natterer, Siemens AG <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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3D Simulation of next-gen autonomous vehicles in mixed traffic container terminals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Berry Gerrits, Distribute Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berry Gerrits holds a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the University ofTwente, The Netherlands, specializing in Operations Research. In 2016 he founded Distribute to bridge the gap between scientific research and practical applications, mainly by focusing on simulation projects. He is also a PhD candidate at the University of Twente, specializing in distributed systems and self-organization of fleets of autonomous vehicles in the logistics and transport sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presentation summary:<\/strong> In collaboration\nwith a large yard tractor manufacturer, distribute studied the impact of a\ndecentralized control approach of autonomous yard tractors in a container\nterminal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation Berry Gerrits showed how simulation assists us in quantifying the impact of autonomous yard tractors in container terminals and how allowing mixing in manual trucks impacts overall performance. He elaborated on the modeling approaches of the various components of a terminal, including traffic control in Plant Simulation and provided a live demonstration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Berry Gerrits, Distribute Netherlands <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Attendees take a break in between sessions
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A few members from Siemens Plant Simulation team!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Presenters were given certificates for their generous participation <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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