SIMUL8 CorporationSIMUL8.com Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 [email protected] Fast, Easy to Use Simulation Software Scaling up the Public use of Simulation

SIMUL8 Corporation SIMUL8.com Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888 [email protected]

Fast, Easy to Use Simulation Software

Scaling up the Public use of Simulation via YouSIMULATE.com

Mark Elder

© SIMUL8 Corporation SIMUL8.com Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888 [email protected]

• What is YouSIMULATE?• What Drove us here?• Demonstration• How to use YouSIMULATE• How to embed simulations in YOUR website• How this drives the demand for Operational Research• The Technology – how the magic works• Where next?

Agenda


What is YouSIMULATE?


• YouTUBE but not videos: Interactive Simulations• Runs simulations in any web browser

– no software required

• Free to – upload, – run, – experiment, – review results,– and improve the process

• Discrete Event Simulations• For Anyone to Use

What is YouSIMULATE?


• SIMUL8 Corp Objective 1:– Put simulation on every Process Engineer’s desktop

• SIMUL8 Corp Objective 2:– Put simulation on every Decision Maker’s desktop

• Decision Makers unaware of simulation

• YouSIMULATE spreads the knowledge

What Drove Us Here?


YouSIMULATE - Demo


• Create the simulation model• Expose decision variables via menus, dialogs, spreadsheets etc• Upload the simulation model file• Add title and description• Either:

– Email a link to your “users”

• or:– Write a web page or blog and “embed” the simulation in the text

• Users view, run, experiment with your live simulation

How to use YouSIMULATE


• Embedding simulation inside Press Releases– Councils save £4.8B by modelling Shared Services

• ORS Web Site “OR in Schools” Project• Resources for Equipment Distributors

– See How Our Photocopier will save you $X

• Teaching / Tutorial / Training Web sites• Communicating Results of Simulation Studies• Sales Lead Generation by Consulting Firms / Internal OR Teams• Public Information

– Why is the SLA not met 100% of the time?

• Spreading the Benefits of Modelling

Likely Uses


How it Drives Demand for OR



Model Builders Upload Simulations that

Illustrate Successes

Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle





Press Stories and other PR Drives Interest in Live

Simulation Websites







Simulation Websites

Website Visitors Think “If only I had one of my

own process”







Simulation Websites


own process”

Demand for Simulations to Satisfy “I want one” Visitors







Simulation Websites


own process”

Demand for Simulations to Satisfy “I want one” Visitors

More Simulations to Upload



• Very Simple Web Browser Capability – AJAX

• Receiving messages from SIMUL8 running on “The Cloud”• The Cloud for Scalability

• Technology Circle Completes One Cycle per Career (!)– IBM 380 (mainframes) talking to “intelligent” terminals– The Cloud processing power talking to Simple Web Browsers

How the Magic Works


• Any (Discrete Event) Simulation Product• Games – Can you run your local A&E any better?• Competitions – Win an iPad for most compelling simulation of…• Now it’s on Cloud – look what else we can do…• YouOTHER_OR_Techniques.com

Where Next?


Upload your Simulations!

Download slides from SIMUL8.com/mark/YouSIMUL8_ORS.zip

YouSIMULATE.com


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