The INOSIM simulation environment is a Windows-compatible standard software for event-oriented dynamic simulation of multi-product plants with mixed, batch, and continuous processes.
Use built-in modeling components like units, resources, recipes, and orders to create a model of a plant at any desired level of detail and complexity. Then, simulate processing steps for numerous pieces of equipment and generate holistic mass and energy balances covering the entire production network to evaluate dynamic process behavior. Further evaluate your production by accessing our integrated Excel reports and INOSIM Gantt to analyze unit utilization, resource demands, and more. Apply INOSIM to facilitate:
The INOSIM simulation environment is available in four editions, not including the free Viewer, each with a different functional range:
Elements and Functions |
Expert | Plant | Process | Runtime | Viewer | |
General | Modeling and simulation environment with freely positionable elements | |||||
User manual in German and English language | ||||||
Import and export of projects, creating new databases | ||||||
Experiments and experiment-specific changes | ||||||
Simulation of experiments | ||||||
Equipment | Process layout incl. sub-layouts for visualization of the process flow chart | |||||
Units, resources, unit and resource pools, lines and line allocations | (3) | |||||
Shift calendar, workdays, holidays, exceptions | ||||||
Failure and maintenance of units | ||||||
Recipes | Recipe groups, master recipes, recipe modules | (3) | ||||
Unit procedures, unit operations, parallel and alternative branching, linking conditions | ||||||
Library with pre-built recipe modules for process engineering calculations | ||||||
Material Properties | Mass balance, material, and volume density correlation | |||||
Component balance, phases, components, temperature, pressure | ||||||
Integration of thermodynamic property packages via CAPE OPEN (1) | ||||||
Evaluation | Gantt chart for visualization of simulation results via allocation bars, filling levels, resource allocation, and mass flows of sources, sinks, and piping | |||||
Result reports in Excel (2) | ||||||
VBA Environment | Built-in VBA editor with debug functions | |||||
Result and object-related controls, INOSIM model, and data objects | ||||||
Interaction with the running simulation by accessing INOSIM objects, their properties, and methods | ||||||
Access to internal and external MS Excel workbooks | ||||||
Interfaces | MS Excel workbooks directly integrated into the project (2) | |||||
COM-Interface to control external applications and for INOSIM to be controlled by external applications |
Legend:
= Complete access (generate, delete, parameterize objects)
= Restricted access (parameterize or view existing objects)
(1) Cape-Open interface to be licensed separately
(2) MS Excel License (2007 and higher) required
(3) Number of the elements is limited (40 units, 20 recipes)
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