Re: OT: Industrial Process modeling

From: Kurt Hansen (khansen_at_charityweb.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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    Bill Gradwohl wrote:

    > I'm looking for an application, hopefully under Linux, to model an
    > industrial process. If I knew what something like this was called, I
    > could Google for it, but I know of no name for it.
    >
    > Extremely trivial example:
    > Drill Press time 5 minutes - consumes D kwh of electricity. Leads to:
    > CNC machine time 60 minutes - consumes C kwh of electricity. Leads to:
    > Anealing oven time 30 minutes - Consumes A kwh of eletricity.
    >
    > I'd like to feed the app resources, characteristics of those
    > resources, and then plug in production figures over a time period and
    > have it tell me how many Drill Presses, etc I need to get that
    > production, how much energy is consumed to add to cost of goods, etc.
    >
    > Largely this is a complex scheduling problem. The app should also
    > highlight resource shortages to say that certain things are impossible
    > due to not enough whatever, and lay out a time line for when things
    > need to happen.
    >
    > Any one know what this might be called, and where I might find such an
    > app?

    I think you've got it -- process modeling. Here's what I found on Google:

    http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Manufacturing/Process/

    I used some about a decade ago, both on Macs and PCs. I doubt you'll
    find something on Linux for free because it is not easy software to use
    effectively. Though, I remember the Mac software being fun.

    I've looked for Design of Experiments software -- sort of related -- and
    not found much on Linux.

    Take care,

    Kurt Hansen
    khansen@charityweb.net 

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