Discrete-event and people

Built on it

• Factory layout and simulation — Layout, line balancing, simulation, ergonomics.
• Fire and life safety engineering — Sprinkler, people-flow, hazard and regulation items for BimCraft with four calculation sheets: occupant load and exit width, egress time, smoke plume and fire load density.
• Industrial engineering (factory layout, workflow, ergonomics) — Factory-flow sheets for ModelCraft, BimCraft and PartCraft: takt time and line balance, OEE and Little's law, a lifting-limit check and conveyor capacity.
• Material handling — Conveyors, stations, AGVs, PLC emulation.
• People flow and evacuation — Walking, queues, evacuation.

Use it in your add-on

Name it in your manifest's needs. When someone adds your add-on, their account brings this engine too, and every edition loads it the first time your add-on needs it. Version ranges arrive with AL.13.

{
  "id": "com.example.my-addon",
  "apps": ["modelcraft", "bimcraft"],
  "needs": ["engine.des"]
}

Methods and standards

Event-driven simulation with fixed seeds. The tests compare it with queueing theory: M/M/1, M/M/c, M/D/1, M/G/1, M/M/1/K, Erlang B and Little's law.

Limits

Lab. A planning aid: results depend on the inputs you give, and egress results are not a code compliance check.