SIMBAX 4.30 pages

Production bottlenecks?
A new plant in project?
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Your most expensive production device
often stays idle.
Production must be interrupted because a
recycled solvent is not yet available.
Getting the right container out of the storage
place is as tricky as solving a puzzle.
Operators are not available when needed.

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clear results: dynamic animation in the
layout and in the Gantt chart during the
simulation, useful statistics for an easy
comparison of scenarios (e.g., utilization
diagrams, vessel and storage contents
curves, resource and material consumption
curves).

Our solution: SIMBAX 4.3
The material flow simulation software package
SIMBAX 4.3 is specifically built to fulfill the
needs of the process industries (chemicals,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, nutrition,...). It
enables engineers to analyze batch as well as
(semi)continuous processes and plants from a
logistic point of view, in order to remove
bottlenecks and hence to increase production
capacity while limiting the investments to those
really needed.
The advantages in short:
• easy-to-use, thanks to a terminology familiar
to the users in the graphical user interface
• realistic representation of the production
environment as a layout, recipes and a
production plan

SIMBAX runs under Windows NT 4.0, Windows
2000 and Windows XP, on a single PC or in a
network. It is used by various companies of the
chemical and pharmaceutical branch.

Applications
SIMBAX has been used, on the one hand, for
the optimization of single processes, e.g., for the
production of:
• antioxidants,
• light stabilizers,
• optical brighteners for detergents and paper,
• pigments for paints and plastics.
On the other hand, SIMBAX has contributed
substantially to capacity increases in diverse
multipurpose plants, among others:
• synthesis
of
active
pharmaceutical
ingredients,
• formulation of pharmaceuticals,
• synthesis and formulation of dyestuffs.

For further information
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easy representation and realistic modeling of
complex production processes with, e.g.,
alternative and parallel operations, semicontinuous processes and buffer tanks,
container filling and storage, as well as
cleaning and set-up operations
detailed
representation
of
additional
resources such as manpower and utilities,
by means of calendars incl. shift models,
weekends and breakdowns
simplified data input thanks to an Excel
interface

AICOS Technologies Ltd.

Tel.: +41 61 686 98 77

Dr. Philippe Solot
AICOS Technologies Ltd.
Efringerstrasse 32
CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel.: +41 61 686 98 76
Fax: +41 61 686 98 88
E-mail: psolot@aicos.com
Web: http://www.aicos.com

SIMBAX.
The art of process optimization.

Fax: +41 61 686 98 88

E-mail: info@aicos.com

Web: www.aicos.com