• DocumentCode
    3269865
  • Title

    Automod™ - providing simulation solutions for over 25 years

  • Author

    Muller, Dan

  • Author_Institution
    Appl. Mater., Appl. Global Services, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    11-14 Dec. 2011
  • Firstpage
    39
  • Lastpage
    51
  • Abstract
    Decision making in industry continues to become more complicated. Customers are more demanding, competition is more fierce, and costs for labor and raw materials continue to rise. Managers need state-of-the-art tools to help in planning, design, and operations of their facilities. Simulation provides a virtual factory where ideas can be tested and performance improved. The AutoMod product suite from Applied Materials has been used on thousands of projects to help engineers and managers make the best decisions possible. AutoMod supports hierarchical model construction. This architecture allows users to reuse model components in other models, decreasing the time required to build a model. In addition, recent enhancements to AutoMod´s material handling template systems have in-creased modeling accuracy and ease-of-use. These latest advances have helped make AutoMod one of the most widely used simulation software packages.
  • Keywords
    decision making; digital simulation; object-oriented programming; software packages; solid modelling; virtual manufacturing; AutoMod product suite; Automod; decision making; hierarchical model construction; labor cost; material handling template systems; model components reuse; modeling accuracy; raw materials; simulation software packages; simulation solutions; state-of-the-art tools; virtual factory; Animation; Load modeling; Materials; Process control; Solid modeling; Statistical distributions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2011 Winter
  • Conference_Location
    Phoenix, AZ
  • ISSN
    0891-7736
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-2108-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0891-7736
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WSC.2011.6147738
  • Filename
    6147738