Simlab
The Simlab is your resource for simulation technologies, process improvement and animated modelling to further your business and your products.
Its services range from industry standard process mapping to cutting-edge 3D modelling software, with acknowledged professionals and academics on-site to aid in your project.
Housing 20 state-of-the-art workstations equipped with the latest simulation and modelling software packages, Simlab also organises a series of introductory seminars and workshops on the various software packages used, which can be accessed by students and SMEs alike. This facility is also available for hire to businesses that require a specialist training facility for staff training, in both specialised and standard software.
Consultancy services provided by Simlab include:
Simulation Modelling
Simulation modelling allows you to test decisions and business strategies before they are implemented
in real life, allowing you to identify problems before they actually occur. By doing so, this can help you to reduce the time and effort needed to investigate the risk and return profiles of different strategic business options.
in real life, allowing you to identify problems before they actually occur. By doing so, this can help you to reduce the time and effort needed to investigate the risk and return profiles of different strategic business options.Simulation modelling also helps to enhance your ability to understand, improve and communicate relationships between business structures, strategies and short and long-term performance. The interactive nature of simulation models makes them exciting environments for experiencing the dynamics of your business under various conditions.
Simulation modelling can help your business to:
- Achieve a better overview and understanding of relationships between the various business functions within your company.
- Reduce and understand oscillations in behaviour patterns.
- Increase the information flow within your company to improve efficiency and productivity.
- Find bottlenecks and problem areas within your processes.
- Test decisions and alternatives to identify the most effective processes before they are implemented.
- Identify potential problems in advance.
Process Mapping
Using industry standard mapping techniques, Simlab can work with your key business staff and managers to analyse and map your business processes. By documenting your business processes we can help you to analyse existing inefficiencies and constraints and/or design new improved processes.
This graphical map of your business can help you better understand your business processes, it promotes understanding and it also supports process improvement and quality assurance initiatives such as ISO 9000 accreditation, lean manufacturing and six sigma programmes. The benefits of mapping out your business processes include:
- It provides a simple visual map of even the most complex processes.
- It can help streamline your business processes.
- It can help you identify any inefficiencies and constraints like bottlenecks, overlaps and gaps that may exist within your business processes.
- It allows top level managers to view the issues that affect the business on an operational level.
- It creates a greater understanding of, and hence “buy-in” to strategic decisions.
- Process maps provide excellent visual training material for new and existing staff.
3D Animation
Simlab’s advanced 3D animation techniques can help you bring your vision to life by designing and producing 3D animations of your vision. 3D animation services offered by Simlab include:
3D virtual environments
Utilising state-of-the-art computer technology, Simlab’s designers can help you to create interactive computer tours or stand-alone presentations of your plans. We can help you to create:
- Photo-realistic renderings of development sites.
- Before and after views of a site or building, showing the various stages of development.
Virtual tours showing existing and planned facilities and infrastructure. You can even experiment with different interior layouts and designs to evaluate the effect the different proposals will have on the environmental factors such as natural lighting and people flows.
CGI for New Product Design
New product design can be a lengthy and expensive process. Using computer-generated images (CGI) and 3D animation techniques, we can greatly reduce the time and costs spent on developing new products. Working in partnership with technicians at Knowledge Dock’s Product Design Lab, we can help you to create a properly scaled and accurate model for prototyping.
3D graphics for print
Simlab can help you to create idealised images through computer-generated 3D models that are multi-dimensional, multifaceted and adaptable for a variety of multimedia purposes.
3D animations for the web
Simlab’s advanced 3D modelling and animation techniques can help you to showcase your products or processes on the Internet. We can create or recreate anything imaginable with 3D models and computer-generated images and optimise them for use on the Internet.
For further information about Simlab's services, please contact us.
For further information about Simlab's services, please contact us.
