This project was carried out for one of the world’s largest nickel producers by one of the “Big 3” strategy consultancies.
Focus Group worked as a sub-contractor for simulation modeling, initial data preparation and analysis of the modeling results. This part of the project consisted of three stages.
Model architecture development
- Choosing an optimal level of details
- Making detailed project plan for simulation model development
- Data gathering, checking and analysis
- Model scenarios creation
- Conceptual model development
Model fulfillment
- Connecting the conceptual model with company data sources
- Development of algorithms for logistics flows, equipment logic, operational constraints and events
- Model UI (user interface) development
- Model animation 2D and 3D
- Model interface setup for output reporting
- Optimization criteria definition
Model testing and usage
- Simulation experiments setup and execution
- Reporting based on the experiments
- Model verification
- Finding optimal scenario for logistic schema
