Functional Description and Comparison

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:

• Designing new plants (or plant extensions)
• Production capacity planning and scheduling
• Bottleneck analysis of existing or projected production equipment
• Analysis of failure and maintenance influences

The INOSIM simulation environment is available in four editions, not including the free Viewer, each with a different functional range:

• Expert Edition: Full version with all available functions.
• Plant Edition: Restricted version, focusing on material flow analysis.
• Process Edition: Restricted version, focusing on process engineering calculations.
• Runtime Edition: Exclusively for the simulation of already existing projects. Parameters can be changed.
• Viewer: Free version exclusively for displaying model elements and results of simulated projects.

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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
	Packaged Goods recipe modules for logistics		(2)	(2)
Material Properties	Mass balance, material, and volume density correlation
	Component balance, phases, components, temperature, pressure
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 (1)
VBA Environment	Built-in VBA editor with debug functions				(4)	(4)
	Result and object-related controls, INOSIM model, and data objects
	Interaction with the running simulation by accessing INOSIM objects, their properties, and methods
Interfaces	MS Excel workbooks directly integrated into the project (1)
	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)
” ” = no access

(1) MS Excel License (2019 and higher) required

(2) Packaged Goods available as add on, included in Expert Edition

(3) Number of the elements is limited (40 units, 20 recipes)

(4) Runtime and Viewer cannot open Basic Editor, code can be executed by Runtime

• Operating system: Windows 10, 11
• RAM: minimum 4 GB, preferably 8 GB or more
• Mass Storage: minimum 2 GB space on hard drive, preferably SSD
• CPU: good single core speed

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