{"id":2181,"date":"2015-11-02T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T17:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Tecnomatix-News\/Simulation-Solutions-for-Material-Flow-Optimization\/ba-p\/320418"},"modified":"2019-09-27T13:28:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:28:30","slug":"simulation-solutions-for-material-flow-optimization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/simulation-solutions-for-material-flow-optimization\/","title":{"rendered":"Simulation Solutions for Material Flow Optimization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 200px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Matthias-at-Virtual-Reality-Day-280x280-1.jpg\" alt=\"Matthias at Virtual Reality Day 280x280.jpg\" title=\"Matthias at Virtual Reality Day 280x280.jpg\" \/><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Matthias Heinicke of Siemens Industry Software recently served as a featured participant in <STRONG>Virtual Planning, Verification, and Collaboration Day<\/STRONG>, at University of Mannheim, Germany, to present and demonstrate <EM>Simulation Solutions for Material Flow Optimization <\/EM>to customers including Volkswagen, Daimler and John Deere.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>This Virtual Planning, Verification and Collaboration Day event was part of the inauguration of the university\u2019s new five side cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE), an immersive, virtual reality,&nbsp;environment where projectors are directed to between three and five of the walls of a room-sized cube.&nbsp; The cave is sponsored by farm machine builder John Deere.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Heinicke\u2019s presentation focused on how virtual reality is getting real, and reality is getting virtual. By using Siemens Tecnomatix Plant Simulation software, a discrete event simulation tool, users combine 3D plant simulation models with <SPAN><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_cloud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">point clouds<\/A><\/SPAN> to create photo realistic views for material flow optimization. It is&nbsp;real virtual reality based modeling! With the Siemens solution, users can visualize large 3D Tecnomatix Plant Simulation models and decision makers can walk through the virtual environment long before a facility is built in reality.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Key benefits of Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for manufacturers:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><UL><br \/>\n<LI>As much as 6 percent savings upon initial investment<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Increase existing system productivity by as much as 20 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reduce new system costs by as much as 20 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Optimize resource consumption and re-use<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reduce inventories by as much as 60 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Reduce throughput time by as much as 60 percent<\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Optimize systems for reduced energy consumption<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><\/p>\n<p><P>Read more about <SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/manufacturing-simulation\/material-flow\/plant-simulation.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tecnomatix Plant Simulation software<\/A><\/SPAN> for material flow optimization.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Check out our Plant Simulation Software 30-day, free, trial offer at no obligation. <SPAN><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/free-trial\/plant-simulation.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Register now!<\/A><\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline\" style=\"width: 999px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Matthias-at-Virtual-Reality-Day.1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Matthias at Virtual Reality Day.1.jpg\" title=\"Matthias at Virtual Reality Day.1.jpg\" \/><\/span>\ufeff<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthias Heinicke of Siemens Industry Software recently served as a featured participant in Virtual Planning, Verification, and Collaboration Day, at University of Mannheim, Germany, to present and d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51290,"featured_media":2187,"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":[10],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-plant-simulation"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/09\/Matthias-at-Virtual-Reality-Day.1-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/tecnomatix\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}