Why SIMLOX?

SIMLOX has been tested and proven extremely valuable for understanding the performance outcome for numerous organizations and projects around the world. Being best in class for over 20 years – continuously improved, supported and educated – makes it a reliable tool for your business.

SIMLOX won’t just help you getting the complete picture, it will also raise the discussions and help you explain the impact of important decisions to other stakeholders within your organization. With the detailed analysis and results you can assess risks and avoid surprises. This type of analysis will also help you understand your contracts better, taking control over different KPI’s as well as impacts of possible penalty clauses.

Adding SIMLOX to your LCM analysis will deepen the understanding and help you form the right decisions to achieve a successful business.

Bring the time dimension into play

To understand how the readiness of your systems evolves over time you need to move on from the assumption of steady state. Going into the world of simulation opens for a wide range of new analytical possibilities which gives you additional answers and deepened understanding.

Unlimited operational description
With SIMLOX, you can describe the system operations over time. Outcomes from intense periods, detailed time-schedules or specific mission profiles can be analyzed in all its details.;

Typical questions:

• Do I have the right number of systems to meet the operational requirements?
• Am I asking too much of my fleet during certain periods?

Understand the spares flow
The level of detail that comes with a time dependent simulation also makes it possible to track the life of your items. Given a certain spares assortment you can follow the stock levels over time, reflecting variations and intense periods.

Typical questions:

• Do I have enough spares to cover a certain situation?
• Where are the spares - on stock or in resupply?
• Is the risk of shortage too high during some periods?
   

Variations over time
It’s not only the operations that may vary over time. SIMLOX allows for a wide range of input data that can reflect time dependent changes. A good example is maintenance personnel, or other equipment, which often isn’t available 24/7. Same thing for transportations where there might be limitations or schedules for when transports can take place. By describing a time schedule, SIMLOX handles all such situations in a powerful and flexible way. But it doesn’t stop there. Other parameters, as tendency of failure or repair/reorder times, can also be altered at certain points in time.

Typical questions:

• Do I have enough maintenance resources available when I need them?
• Does limited transport possibilities affect the system readiness?
• What’s the effect of a mid-life upgrade of some components?

Additional capabilities

Through state-of-the-art simulation algorithms, SIMLOX supports numerous features that helps you describe all relevant aspects of your scenario. All such aspects will form the total picture and give you the knowledge and understanding you need.

System functionality
An important SIMLOX-feature is the possibility to describe whether a certain failure will stop the system from operating, and if not, for how long the operations may continue and when the need of maintenance becomes urgent. Together with a fully flexible description of the functional breakdown of the system, SIMLOX will help you understand all the impacts of different reliability aspects.

Capability rather than specific system
In some scenarios it is more important to make sure that a certain capability is kept alive, rather than looking at the operations of a single system. For example, if we want to perform surveillance, it doesn’t matter if this is performed with one airborne system or ten land-based platforms – we can still deliver the intended service. With SIMLOX you can describe different formations which each may perform the required mission. You can also point out a preferred option and what the fallback would be.

Maintenance schedules
If systems are to be operated away from their regular environment, it is likely that the pre-requisites for performing maintenance will change. In some scenarios, all scheduled maintenance is postponed until the systems return to their original location. By describing the full details of your scenario, SIMLOX will help you understand the impacts from changes in the preventive maintenance planning.

Verify your OPUS10 results

As a user of OPUS10, the efforts to start exploring the world of simulation is 100% effortless. The basic data requirements are not only identical, but it’s also possible to use your OPUS10 input files directly in SIMLOX. Additional, simulation specific data, can be edited and stored in the same file.

It’s not only the input that can be shared between the tools, even the optimization results from OPUS10 can be seamlessly integrated. A typical use-case is to evaluate and understand the effects from a stock solution, considering all the aspects and details enabled through the simulation.

OPUS10 gives you the optimal spares assortments from a long-term, steady state, point of view. SIMLOX gives you the details and understanding of how things play out over time.