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Start with a decision worth testing.

Plan staffing, compare equipment capacity or change a layout before committing to it. Each example names the person making the decision, what to compare and the site data needed to make the result useful. Open the project to test your own conditions.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Convenience store lunch rush

Convenience-store owners, store managers and franchise operations staff

Should two cashiers stay on the registers through lunch, or would faster payment be enough?

Park → pick up items → queue → pay → coffee or eat-in → leave

Try changingCompare 2 and 1 cashiers, then payment times of 35 s and 25 s, with the same shoppers and seed.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Café morning peak

Café owners and store managers

Is a second barista or a quicker order the better fix for the morning queue?

Street → order queue → free till → pickup while the drink is made → seat or leave; the baker shapes, bakes and restocks

Try changingWith the same 90 guests per hour, compare 1 and 2 baristas, then a 40 s and a 60 s order at the till. A third barista adds nothing while there are two machines.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Saturday checkout

Supermarket managers and front-end (checkout) supervisors

Does steering shoppers to self-checkout, or faster scanning, shorten the Saturday queue, or only move it?

Park → enter → fresh and aisles → choose a lane or the pod → scan and pay → bag → drive off

Try changingWith the same shoppers, move the shares from 70/30 to 60/40 and 50/50, or cut the mean scanning time from 90 to 60 s.

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Factory & warehouse · 2 levels

Assembly plant shift

Production engineers, plant managers and automation planners

Which change gets every order shipped within the hour: a faster test, more AMRs or faster machining?

Raw store → CNC (→ weld) → line 1–8 → test → pack → wrap → dock

Try changingSet the test to 240 s (the hour is missed), then 120 s; compare 2 and 6 AMRs in service and a longer CNC cycle with the same orders.

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Factory & warehouse · 2 levels

Robot picking shift

Warehouse operations managers and automation planners

Will more robots raise throughput, or are the pick stations already the limit?

Order line → robot lifts a pod → station lane → pick → pod back to its place → conveyor → pack bench → sorter

Try changingWith the same orders, compare 16, 24 and 32 robots in service; then cut the pick time from 24 to 16 s, or the orders from 1,000 to 800 per hour.

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Retail & venues · 3 levels

Saturday afternoon

Shopping-centre operations managers and food-court tenants

At a Saturday peak, which food-court stalls queue, and does faster cooking or a smaller food-court share clear the queues?

Car park or bus → shops on any level → escalators or lifts → food court (choose food, free stall, cook, seat) or cinema → restroom → home

Try changingCut the mean cooking time from 120 to 90 s, or move the food-court share from 45 to 30 or 60, with the same visitors.

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Retail & venues · 5 levels

Four buildings on a Saturday

Operations and development teams of multi-building shopping centres

How much does a bridge from the main building’s top floor to the cinema take off the plaza and the escalators, and for which flows?

Car-park deck or station → shops in the main building or the annex (L2 bridge) → food court, or the cinema by the L3 bridge or the plaza → box office, concessions, seat; the film audience → food court, car or station

Try changingWith the same visitors and seed, set cinema trips by the L3 bridge to 0 and round by the plaza to 100: the site without the bridge (the connection stays; every cinema trip goes by the ground floor). Then try 50 and 50.

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Home · 7 levels

Estate weekday morning

Housing managers, estate developers and management associations

How do delivery boxes change the couriers’ time and lift use at the morning peak, and how long do residents wait for a lift?

Flat door → stairs (levels 1–2) or the lift hall → lift → lobby → refuse cage → on foot, by bicycle or by car. Couriers: van → delivery boxes, or lift → a flat’s door → back down

Try changingWith the same residents, put every parcel in the delivery boxes (boxes 100, doors 0) or take every parcel to the door (0 and 100); or raise the residents leaving per floor from 6 to 12.

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Buildings · 2 levels

Airport morning departures

Airport operations, security checkpoint managers and terminal planners

How many security lanes must be staffed for the morning bank, and when?

Kerb → check-in or bag drop → security queue → lane → shops → gate → board; arrivals: jet → belt → customs → kerb

Try changingCompare 3, 4 and 5 open security lanes with the same passengers and seed, then raise both passenger rates by a quarter.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Apparel fitting & checkout

Store managers and retail operations teams

Where should we add service capacity before the next busy weekend?

Enter → browse → fit → check out → leave

Try changingCompare 2 and 4 open fitting rooms, then 1 and 2 checkout positions, with the same 36 shoppers.

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Retail & venues · 2 levels

Apparel replenishment

Store managers and stockroom leads

Can a shorter replenishment route handle the work before we add a person?

Pick stock → take lift → replenish → return

Try changingCompare 1 and 2 stock assistants, or move the drop zone with demand unchanged.

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Factory & warehouse · 2 levels

Warehouse picking

Warehouse managers and automation planners

Should the next investment be more robots or more packing capacity?

Collect → pick upstairs → pack → ship → return

Try changingIncrease AMR units or packing slots; keep order arrivals unchanged.

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Buildings · 3 levels

Building deliveries

Facilities teams and robot integrators

Would another delivery robot help, or would it wait for the same lift?

Collect parcel → ride lift → hand off → return

Try changingCompare 2 and 4 delivery robots with the same parcels.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Café service

Café owners and shift managers

Does the morning rush need more drink-making capacity?

Enter → order → prepare drink → pick up → leave

Try changingCompare 1 and 2 preparation stations with the same 24 customers.

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Retail & venues · 1 level

Venue registration

Event producers and venue operations teams

How much registration capacity is needed before the opening session?

Arrive → register → visit booth → attend session → leave

Try changingAdd registration desks or session capacity with the same arrivals.

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Factory & warehouse · 1 level

Factory flow

Production engineers and factory managers

Which change helps this line meet its shift target?

Receive → load → move → pack → ship

Try changingCompare fleet sizes or aisle capacity at the same order rate.

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Retail & venues · 3 levels

Mall visitors

Shopping-centre operations teams

Where could our assumed visitor flow run out of service capacity?

Enter → choose shops → change floors → browse → leave

Try changingChange people per shop while keeping arrivals, seeds and runs the same.

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Factory & warehouse · 1 level

Inspection & rework

Quality leads and production planners

Will another inspection bench clear the backlog or move it to rework?

Receive → inspect → pass or rework → finished goods

Try changingCompare 1 and 2 inspection benches with the same arrivals and seeds.

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Home · 2 levels

Home chores

Home robot evaluators · capability tutorial

Can this robot reach the task at all?

Kitchen → upstairs laundry → return

Try changingAdjust kitchen and laundry work times, then inspect each route.

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Getting started · Numeric workflow

Transport

New simulation users · transport tutorial

How do loading and return trips occupy a shared mover?

Reserve → load → travel → unload → return

Try changingCompare 1 and 2 movers at the same travel distance.

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One project, from the first sketch to a saved comparison.

All examples are synthetic. They demonstrate the calculation, not the performance of an operating site. Two numeric examples use supplied distances and capacities rather than spatial paths.

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