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WITNESS What's New

WITNESS 2008 is now shipping and is packed full of new exciting options! Our new and maintained customers can look forward to greater ease of use, enhanced functionality, better visualization and communication and increased integration. Major advances in the WITNESS 2008 release include enhanced conveyor options, improved power and free flexibility, greater ease of use with new grid edits, a sensational new WITNESS Presentation Manager(free with the release) and much more.

Highlights of WITNESS 2008

New Continuous Conveyor elements with all new part sizing options. Length, Width and Height attributes, conveyors queue by length or width. Physical part icon scaling options included.

New Sensors on conveyors to cause actions when covered or uncovered. Also includes leading edge and trailing edge detection.

Power and Free - new section flexibility for size/spacing of carriers. New range of options for dog transfers.

The sensational new WITNESS Presentation Manager - Full designer program & viewer offering displays of key information being broadcast from the model - Gauges, pictures, linked statistical information such as pie charts - all dynamically updated as a model runs.

Grid edits for many popular data sets in WITNESS models including multi-cycle machines, shift patterns, breakdowns, setups and more.

A range of great new models showing the range and flexibility of modeling in WITNESS. This model shows a pedal assembly operation including a multi stage robot with detailed animation. It also offers the NEW smooth conveyor display available even for indexed conveyors. Smooth VR conveyors too - straight from the unique WITNESS Fastbuild function.

One of the new models included in this release. This model forms the basis of a new chapter on experimentation and optimization in the NEW 2008 edition WITNESS workbooks (one for Service customers and one for Manufacturing customers). This model appears in the manufacturing edition.

This picture shows the relevant model for the service edition.

A new updated model showing the layout and organisation of a typical bank branch including counter service, atm and deposit machines and other customer functions.

New full range of functions to allow access to all Cost and Revenue report analyses.

New direct links and wizards to make importing shifts and distributions from Excel really, really easy!!
Simply choose the spreadsheet and drag select the cells with the data.

New distribution visualization wizard to help selection of appropriate settings.

PLUS

Improved debugger with better fault tolerance and inclusion of monitored function parameters and more
Picture placement sizing for vector images enabling easy CAD placement
Timeseries summary report option
Faster Explode report mechanism
Scenario Manager extension to 1000 replications
Improved Prompting
And much more

WITNESS Optimizer

Plug and Play algorithm addition. Using this new mechanism introduced in WITNESS 2007 we have added a new n'th factorial design of experiments. Simply select from the pull down algorithm list or add your own algorithm.

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Reduces risk in Decision Making

Accurately predicting how proposed changes to a facility or process will work.

Supports Investment Decisions

Provides evidence to identify profitable ideas and avoid costly mistakes.

Eliminates Waste and Error

Showing which control methods and which resource profiles are most efficient.

Communicates the optimal solution to decision makers

Enables scenarios to be compared and the best option for the business to be graphically reported.

Easy to use

One training course will provide you with the skills needed to build simulation models and get results - quickly!

Simulation is a decision making tool. If you have a process in your organisation that you would like to optimize or improve, simulation can provide a cost effective means of finding the right solution, without relying on gut instincts or hindsight.