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- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great simulation software and improving
Reviewed on 2018/10/09
Pros
Easy to use, more features getting added
Cons
Not enough people using it so there is not a lot of forum support outside of Simio
- Industry: Mining & Metals
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simulation using Simio
Reviewed on 2023/05/15
My overall experience with Simio was fantastic. I could build my model, do experiments to test it...
My overall experience with Simio was fantastic. I could build my model, do experiments to test it and conduct analysis to identify any best operating model that satisfies my design specs.
Pros
I can build a simple model as early as possible and visualize how it will operate from entity arrivals into the system to the exit point. After evaluating my model from visualization, I can modify it as I go to add additional complex modes of operation. I like that I can see the movement of entities and the structure layout of the simio object library. It's simple to drag and drop the objects and model as you go.
Cons
One limit I did not like about simio or perhaps I am not sure how to implement such operation in Simio, is the lack of a feature to scan in real-time whether the traveling path is occupied and if so, I would have to pause the up coming entities from transferring to path until the path is free.
- Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Well built scheduling software
Reviewed on 2018/01/09
Pros
Simio is pretty powerful, allowing me to not only perform scheduling but also risk analysis simulations and other aspects of tasks related to production planning.
Cons
I found it took a little time to learn all the ins and outs of the software. It wasn't quite as intuitive as I had hoped it would be but once I did learn it, it was very useful for scheduling and simulated scheduling.
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Simulating with the Analyst in Mind
Reviewed on 2016/11/09
It is very easy when building simulation models to focus on the visuals and forget the analysis....
It is very easy when building simulation models to focus on the visuals and forget the analysis. After all, we need to convince the stakeholders that the solution we propose will deliver what it says on the tin and what better way than to mesmerise them with animation. Actually, there is another way, demonstrate that all scenarios have been considered and with an inflated chest lay down the challenge, "tell me where I have gone wrong and I'll tell you what data I need to determine whether its fact or fiction".
Simio like most major simulation engines allows 3D visualisation and what is nice is a simple press of the '2' and '3' keys smoothly transitions you from 2D to 3D respectively. Add Google Warehouse and importing 3DSMax files and decent visuals can be shown. Developers please add STP or IGES file format.
This simulation engine seems to have been developed with not only the ability to quickly model with little to no code writing experience, but also empowers one to devise and quickly run scenarios that can answer the real questions and find those sensitive areas/ optimal solutions.
The start of any simulation project should start with the agreed conceptual model. This boils down to possible resources and a general set of inputs that trigger delays and produce outputs. Simio supports this basic concept in its standard library of objects. The object orientated approach means that these basic objects can be modified by adding more detailed lower level processes or modifying original logic. Of course the model is an object that can be imported into another model. Gaining model acceptance is generally easier with collaboration, so showing the team their input has been incorporated in a way that resembles the conceptual model goes a long way.
The power of discrete event simulation is its ability to handle random events. Simio has the standard list of distributions which using a form of intellitype is easy to define. Note to developers, it would be great if intellitype is available in all fields. Of course with distributions come replications, which using the Experiments function allow the analyst to create and execute scenarios using different user defined input parameters and compare results based on user defined KPIs. But Simio has another trick up its sleeve, using the Input Parameters tab and defining the distributions with the sample size, provides a neat way to analyse the impact the distribution has on specific result parameters.
Pros
Standard Library - Object Orientated approach to modelling means models can become objects in other models.
Copy and Paste - Processes data, functions etc can be copied between models.
Key Felds Data can be created like a database i.e. enter once use multiple times.
External Data - Supports links with external data files such as CSV or excel.
Easy Scenario Creation - Experiment function allows easy creation of multiple experiments and comparison of results.
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Simio Software and Risk-based Planning and Scheduling (RSP)
Reviewed on 2015/09/15
Deciding which type of simulation software for a business to purchase can be an extremely difficult...
Deciding which type of simulation software for a business to purchase can be an extremely difficult decision. Being faced with this decision we began to investigate and compare simulation software packages available on the market. After comparison, Simio was the clear choice for our business. Although most simulation software packages are extremely difficult and confusing to learn, Simio's many resources make learning and mastering the software easy. Most noteworthy is the video tutorials provided which made the transition to Simio painless. Ultimately the decision to choose Simio was made based on the functionality of the software and the ability to accurately and quickly model real world systems for the purposes of finding solutions. Simio's 3D modeling abilities are unmatched by any other software packages available. Simio is quick and easy in the 3D department and compared to others is much less time consuming for similar 3D animations. With that said, the 3D modeling is generally a non-value added task and we were more focused on the software's modeling abilities. Simio's add-in packages operate flawlessly with OptQuest being the one we utilize the most. The customer support at Simio is outstanding too. I reached out to Simio when modeling a complex transit system this past year and they were able to identify my error and provided a fix the same day.
We recently decided to expand our abilities with the usage of Simio's Risk-based Planning and Scheduling. After watching roughly 11 videos about 10 minutes each, Simio's RPS was easily incorporated into a previous manufacturing process project. Adapting the previous project slightly was straightforward and surprisingly resulted in the RPS being setup almost automatically. The ability to incorporate the complexities of variation into the RPS is what makes this such an advantageous tool and also what separates it from others. Simio also offers an add-in package for the RPS, Wonderware MES which provides the real-time production data. Generating plans, evaluating risk, performing comparisons, and many other functions are available through Simio's RPS and we look forward to providing this to our clients. We give Simio our highest recommendation.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Employing Simio to size offshore vessel fleet (e.g. forecast charters) and to schedule...
Reviewed on 2017/07/13
Company spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year moving equipment and supplies to offshore...
Company spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year moving equipment and supplies to offshore drilling units and producing assets. We use Simio to determine optimal vessel fleet size and develop 10 days shipment schedules daily. Tool works well and has enabled us to reduce our fleet size considerably.
Pros
Handles highly complex simulations--we model 25+ slips, 30 vessels, 25 offshore locations, and more than 30 different types of demand product types such as barite, cement, casing, and baskets. Scheduler optimizes schedule based on lowest tangible and intangible costs and considers weather forecast, crew change schedules, and tank cleaning.
Cons
Simulation is written in a graphical programming language which is great for small, quick designs, but gets cumbersome to navigate in very large and complex simulations.
- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
SIMIO is Amazing
Reviewed on 2017/03/13
SIMIO is an amazing simulation software program. The ability to model moving resources, tasks...
SIMIO is an amazing simulation software program. The ability to model moving resources, tasks precedence and data modeling set it apart from many other languages.
Pros
The ability to use data modeling to add intelligence to the entities is amazing.
The task precedence ability is another feature where SIMIO stands apart. Finally the ability to model dynamic moving resources is another great feature.
Cons
The feature creep of these objects has grown to out of control. The bloating of the objects has made it difficult to teach and modify them. So many properties and features. Their conveyor modeling is a little primitive. The ability to not set the controls in an experiment from a excel table with the all the optimization parameters for each control is a pain.
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Dalton's Simio Review
Reviewed on 2018/10/09
Pros
I like having the ability to rapidly model quick systems, but also having the ability to add in any level of complexity.
Cons
i least like the inability to view logs over multiple simulations to track information like buffer queues over time.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great value and support
Reviewed on 2018/06/23
Simulation of workflow processes.
Simulation of workflow processes.
Pros
Users have been very satisfied with the ease of use and setup process. After a downturn we needed to get users back on and the sales team made it very simple to onboard our users.
Cons
At the moment we are ramping back up from a downturn. Since this is a niche product, finding other applications for current licenses has been a challenge.
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for Free Trial
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Simio
Reviewed on 2018/08/22
Pros
The oportunity to create a wonderfull simulation of your process
Cons
The cost, it is so expensive for medium companies
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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Best simulation software
Reviewed on 2018/06/26
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The user interface is one of the best in the market. It´s always improving and they have an amazing team for support. They have helped me several times with questions that I had. Most of the time they answer the same day.
What I like the most is their policy towards education, particularly higher education. They provide all kind of help: documentation, demos, videos, books, blog, etc.
The "3D Warehouse" that connects automatically is free and very complete for improving your existing model.
The Simbits are the best tool for learning the software and for fast reference about doing something particular. I recommend any user to check anytime those Simbits.
Cons
I recently started to use Dashboards. However, there is not much info about how to use it and develop it. Anyway, this is a minor detail.
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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There is on other product on the market today that comes close to Simio.
Reviewed on 2018/06/22
Pros
It is at least 10 years ahead of flexsim, arena, Anylogic, or any other products. It's agent based modelling at it finest and the planning board is unrivalled.
Cons
Nothing. It is extremely comprehensive with ground breaking advances which are optimally positioned for industry 4.0
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simio has allowed me to easily model different emergency department operational models for...
Reviewed on 2017/07/11
I can model whatever I want to model in healthcare systems rapidly. It is a create communication...
I can model whatever I want to model in healthcare systems rapidly. It is a create communication tool and makes important decision easier.
Pros
Ease of ease. Smooth interface. I also like that I can "get under the hood" and customize it to my hearts desire. Again, I can create models quickly and model any scenario that comes up in an emergency department. We are know expanding its use to include inpatient services and other service lines. Great product!
Cons
Nothing really. It has become part and parcel with me over time. I would be nice if it had more pre-built healthcare models (anything to make my job easier)
- Industry: Computer Hardware
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Best simulation software i ever tried
Reviewed on 2017/03/13
I was using Arena for 5 years until we got to know SImio. It was a breakthrough. We started using...
I was using Arena for 5 years until we got to know SImio. It was a breakthrough. We started using it and never stopped after that, in the university and in our consulting firm.
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Ease of use
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
University of Houston
Reviewed on 2017/03/13
I find Simio very powerful simulation language with lots of features. I taught ARENA and SIMAN...
I find Simio very powerful simulation language with lots of features. I taught ARENA and SIMAN prior to learning Simio three years ago. However, my students find it hard to learn how to model using Simio, especially advanced features (concept of Model vs Model Entity State Variables, tables and matrices). I have not mastered Scheduling part of Simio yet which I would like to teach in a Scheduling Theory course, one of these days.
Pros
Functionality and modeling flexibility.
Cons
Not easy to teach to my students, not easy to learn advanced features.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Solid software for standard simulation purposes with some nice features
Reviewed on 2017/03/09
Simio offers all standard and basic functionality for the most simulation purposes. It has nice...
Simio offers all standard and basic functionality for the most simulation purposes. It has nice featrues when loading data from foreign systems into the internal table structure.
Sometimes, it would be good to have something like a script language to provide user specific actions in a simple way rather than using the graphical process view, which gets sometimes very complicated.
Pros
Nice internal table structure and connection to the model entities
Fast start and use in standard simulation problems
Cons
Graphical "programming" of user code sometimes get very complicated, a scripüt language support would be very helpful
- Used for 2+ years
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a fantastic simulation software
Reviewed on 2018/06/26
Pros
The software provides a lot of functionality that can be applied by the user.
The huge coverage of subject areas allows people from different background to use simulation in their work
Cons
While there is a library of simbits to use, it does take a bit of thinking to link the simbits to a specific problem. This is especially difficult for newbies.
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
I supervised graduae students conducting research projects using Simio
Reviewed on 2018/04/23
Simio has been greatly improving our research outputs and soliciting more research projects.
Simio has been greatly improving our research outputs and soliciting more research projects.
Pros
Simio provides great animation and is relatively easy to learn. Once you signed up for Simio newsletters, they will deliver emails regularly to inform you of interesting events.
Cons
It might not be a limitation of SImio but rather my unfamiliarity with that function. I know Arena can be integrated with optimization tools. I hope Simio has similar functionalities and promote it.
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Utility for aircraft part development
Reviewed on 2017/03/08
I use Simio for some years now and it is always very fruitful. We simulated shops for aircraft...
I use Simio for some years now and it is always very fruitful. We simulated shops for aircraft composite parts, not only for us but also for customers. It is very easy to understand how Simio works and how to program it even for big shops to simulate. When we got experience with the software, we even started to link it with Excel to allow to manage shops in real time. Feel free to watch the video of Simio we placed on Youtube.
Pierre Severin, engineering team leader at Coexpair
Pros
The visualisation of the machines and of the shop in general.
The link with Excel for daily use in real life.
Cons
Sometime, a bit hard to to understand how to program very specific operations; the tric is to think like a software programmer
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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This is the best simulation software I have ever worked with as an operations research analyst
Reviewed on 2017/07/11
Pros
I love the flexibility of the software the most. Out of the box the software can do almost anything you need either standard library objects. But for those rare instances where a standard object just isn't quite what you need the software allows you to customize an existing object or build your. It's awesome!
Cons
Honestly the only thing I can think of that might be considered a con is that when you start to import custom graphics objects the file size can get pretty large and the model starts to slow down.
- Used for 6-12 months
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I consider Simio is difficult to learn.
Reviewed on 2018/06/23
Pros
I consider that Simio has an excellent set of feature for animations, statistical reports and scenery comparison tools. Another feature I like Simio is the mode how one can define variables in any simulation models.
Cons
Too much details for modelling discrete event dynamic systems, what difficult the modelling of systems.
- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Architecture combined with technology made more amazing!
Reviewed on 2019/01/25
Pros
Simio is a tool made for architectural plans to turn to a 3D moving draft by the use of our modern technology. It has the same concept and design as a microsoft office software so its more familiar to the user which makes it easier to navigate. And unlike other draft making softwares, Simio can start with already made templates or even from an actual image and move on from there.
Cons
Keyboard shortcuts might be really useful, but Simio offers very little of it. But in general, the most frequently utilized tools have keyboard shortcuts like turning from 2D to 3D etc, which can be very helpful for the users.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great software!
Reviewed on 2018/09/28
It has helped with making recommendations on staffing models, equipment use, and the impact on...
It has helped with making recommendations on staffing models, equipment use, and the impact on turnaround times. The stakeholders appreciate the predictability component to be able to test different scenarios before trying it in real life.
Pros
It has extensive functionality that stakeholders can easily understand and see value in.
Cons
It does not have a good way to represent statistics by hour of day which is important to a hospital that runs 24/7.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Recommended Simulator
Reviewed on 2017/03/13
My team and me are teaching simulation with SIMIO because is friendly and very powerfull. Students...
My team and me are teaching simulation with SIMIO because is friendly and very powerfull. Students understand software quickly an also, a posgraduate student made his Magister Thesis in quality engineering with a simulation as tool to predict behavior. He learned quickly and SIMIO was a useful tool to his work.
Pros
Is friendly and powerful
Cons
SIMIO hasn`t Analysis of Variance in its modules. So it is necessary to export data to statistical software to analize results.
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Simio review
Reviewed on 2018/10/05
There is a learning curve and it took me about a month to get familiar with the program.
There is a learning curve and it took me about a month to get familiar with the program.
Pros
Easy to use, easy to build simulations. The tutorial videos are really helpful and easy to follow.
Cons
Sometimes certain properties are hard to find when clicked on multiple selections.