Introducing JaamSim Pro

JaamSim Software Inc. is pleased to announce a new commercial software product 'JaamSim Pro' that extends the open-source JaamSim by adding libraries of objects for vehicle motion and material flow. It is targeted at the mining and oil & gas industries and the consultants that build models for these companies. These complex models include everything from the production and processing of one or more materials through various transportation modes and storage locations through to the end user. They often have hundred or even thousands of active components.

The following model prepared by Hypercube Scientific (hypercubescientific.com.au) is a good example of an end-to-end model for a hypothetical mining company:

What makes JaamSim Pro special is that these models can be constructed in much less time and that they execute many times faster than the models built with other software. For example, the model shown above executes one year of simulated time in about 30 minutes on a typical computer. With other software a simulation run can require 2 or more hours of execution time.

JaamSim Pro executes so much faster than other simulation software because it simulates material flow and vehicle motion using next-event logic instead of the fixed time steps used by other software. Next-event logic is more difficult for our programmers to implement, but the increase in execution speed is enormous. It also avoids the problems of accumulated round-off error and makes it unnecessary for the model builder to choose the size of the time steps.

The JaamSim Pro website (jaamsimpro.com) provides a series of videos that show the types of models that can be constructed.

Lastly, please note that the free open source JaamSim can still be used for both academic and commercial purposes. Its Apache 2.0 license is one of the most permissive licenses for open source software. JaamSim Pro is only required if its libraries of material flow and vehicle motion objects are needed for a model. Any new features that are not related to these two libraries will be included in the open source JaamSim.