The design and implementation of supplier, manufacturing, customer, and internal organizational processes all have a critical impact on the bottom line — and your ability to stay competitive. Arena® simulation software protects your business by predicting the impact of new business ideas, rules, and strategies before implementation — offline, without causing disruptions in service.

Arena has enabled organizations around the world to:

• Avoid costly mistakes caused by implementing decisions based solely on intuition.
• Design processes to withstand the rigors and uncertainty of system randomness and variability.
• Reveal hidden value and eliminate wasteful bottlenecks in existing implementations and internal processes.
• Maximize customer relationships through exceptional service and delivery.

Arena offers the unparalleled ease-of-use, flexibility, scalability, and domain expertise required for modeling any aspect of your enterprise.

FEATURES

• Completely scalable, enterprise-wide modeling to model any aspect of your business
• Intuitive flowchart editor to describe processes
• Optional convenient spreadsheet data entry
• Powerful modeling of expensive and critical constraints and resources such as staff, equipment, and other investments
• Robust modeling for detailed studies of complex systems
• Hierarchical aggregation and decomposition to aggregate or expand system components
• Free library of nearly 300 tutorial models

• Graphical editor to describe schedules associated with staff and equipment, as well as arrivals of customers, parts, or other system entities
• Input data analyzer that automatically fits raw data to the best statistical distributions
• Reuse existing knowledge and data through built-in spreadsheet and interface to standard databases like Excel and Access
• Generate custom user and data interfaces with Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications and ActiveX® controls
• Customizable toolbars, context-sensitive menus, and online help
• Powerful template development environment to create and distribute custom libraries of modeling constructs

• Automatic flowchart animation for dynamic visualization of process flows
• Compelling system animation for presentations and system validation with a vast collection of customizable icons and dynamic business graphs
• Run-control features, including powerful debugging tools like graphical object browsers, watch windows, and breakpoints
• Easy distribution of models for viewing and experimenting

• Comprehensive reporting capability through Crystal Reports®, including graphs publishable as HTML, Word, Excel, etc.
• Automatic roll-up of statistics through process hierarchy to view costs, times, and other information at the lowest level … or see their accumulation in departments, workcenters, or entire facilities
• Detailed activity-based costing, custom statistics, and automatic confidence intervals
• Powerful output analysis tools to compare results from different scenarios
• Find optimal answers with industry-leading optimization package – OptQuest®

• Arena’s flowchart-style model-building technique is familiar and easy to use -- regardless of the detail or complexity of the application being modeled.

• Arena's standard, open architecture enables the creation of custom interfaces and applications. As an enterprise matures in its use of simulation, Arena Professional provides the development platform for organizations to craft their own suites of custom simulation tools.

• Arena offers powerful simulation software in a natural, graphical interface. Designed to suit the needs from beginner to the most advanced user, Arena adapts to both the application being modeled and the experience level of the user.

• Built-in, flexible interfaces to leading desktop applications let you use existing corporate information assets to enhance the value of your simulation. Embedded VBA allows you to create custom interfaces, or insert ActiveX controls to enhance the UI or logic. Model logic and data can also be incorporated directly from Visio drawings or Microsoft Excel.

• A powerful, complete set of tools provides support for simulation project activities from start to finish, including statistical analysis of input data, a collection of model-building templates and constructs, animation to visualize processes and system behavior, debugging tools, output tools for statistical analysis, optimization capabilities, and run-time capabilities to distribute your models to others.

Organizations worldwide have realized a return of more than 15 times their investment in Arena and achieve these returns within a few weeks to a few months. Let the power of Arena help you improve the bottomline in your organization.

Consult our Web site at www.ArenaSimulation.com for demo and Web seminar offerings or to download product brochures, white papers, and application case studies.

For more information and pricing of Arena software, contact the U.S. Rockwell Automation office at (1)724-741-4000 or contact your local Arena reseller, listed at www.ArenaSimulation.com/partners.