Hey Industrial Engineers, do you know of a free simulation program I can use to simulate the material flow where I can input cycle times and OE% data to calculate supermarkets or inventory between processes?

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I don't know of a specific program, but you could try using something like Visio or even Excel. You would need to create your own templates or use some of the existing ones online.

Thanks for your answer, I know how to calculate the quantities, but I just started in a new company that has never calculated inventories between processes and are afraid of trusting formulas. I tried to explain the rationale but are skeptic. For example, they want to have 3 days of inventory, but the calculation shows 5 hours because that's the way they've always done it. I think a simulation would help me explain it better. Thanks for your reply.

Try FlexSim. They have limited demo (30 character limit).

Thank you so much, I'll try it

Simio is pretty good but it isn’t free

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