What's New

What's New

• Four steps: Product and Rate, Stations and Operations, Size and Value Stream, and Ramp. Advanced lists the other seven tools, each with what it does.
• An answer line on every step: the rate, People, Machines, Max Output, Flow Time and the Bottleneck with its spare capacity.
• Busy limit: copies are sized so no station is planned past 85% busy, or the limit you set for an area.
• Depends On: operations can start side by side and join. A station takes as long as its longest chain.
• Line Settings: a new line asks nine yes or no questions once, then nothing asks.
• Cells: design a cell of builders, size its copies, lay it out as a U, an L or an I, and stamp the copies on the floor.
• One Page: the answer, a still value stream and the ramp on one sheet. Export One Page (PDF) prints it.
• Guide Me builds a new line one action at a time on the real steps.

What Changed

• Files save as format 5 when they hold a busy limit under 100%, a Depends On list or a station with its own people. Floor Simulator 0.5.x cannot open a format 5 file.
• A 0.5 file opens with nothing lost, at the 85% busy limit, and says once what moved.
• With Sub-Assemblies off, each sub-part joins the end item at the operation that uses it, so flow time can read differently from 0.5.
• The sidebar, the Overview page, the Plan sheet, the Switches sheet and the manager and expert levels are gone. Old links open the step that holds that page now.
• A By Month plan with dated changes reads the answer from the line as the plan has it that month, from one run.

What You Get

• Floor Simulator 0.6.0 as one HTML file that runs offline in Chrome or Edge and never touches the network.
• Floor Simulator Classic (0.5.x) free with it, as a separate download.
• A 2-day free trial from the store page.
• On the store page: $249 once, or in the Complete plan at $19 a month.
• Owners of Floor Simulator 0.5 or Classic download 0.6 from their account.

What's New

• The /modelers page: which modeler fits a production line, a staffing flow, or a high-mix or repair shop, with the store's side-by-side rows.
• A 2-day free trial of the Floor Simulator, emailed from its store page.
• This changelog: every release of every tool on one page, with a filter by tool.

What Changed

• The home page opens with the Floor Simulator's One Page and a button to try it free for 2 days.
• Under the hero, a card each for Floor Simulator, Process Modeler and Mixed Shop Modeler, with its screen, the question it answers, its plan and its one-time price.
• The Tools menu opens with Modelers, its three tools and a line each.
• The Floor Simulator store page shows the one-time $249 buy beside the plan.

What You Get

• One page to pick a modeler from before you open a store page.
• A way to try the Floor Simulator before you buy it.
• What changed in each tool, and when, in one place.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• A WIP cap only lowers piles above the target. Piles already under it stay as they are.
• A step loaded past 100% that is not the drum is drawn in red on the map and the image.

What You Get

• Future state WIP and short steps that match what you typed.

What's New

• A wait on a station over the pace gets its own note: remove the wait, since moving it does not help.

What Changed

• Capacity rounds down, never up: 106.6 a day reads 106.
• Rebalancing never moves a waiting element. It stays at its station and takes its time out of that station.
• When Quick's totals come from the stations in Design, Quick judges the stations as built, as Design does.
• One pace on every tab, with downtime taken out.

What You Get

• The same verdict on Quick and Design for the same line.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• Capacity rounds down, never up: 106.6 a day reads 106.
• One pace on every check: the running hours with the stopped hours taken out, as Takt and Line does.

What You Get

• Checks that agree with each other on the same numbers.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• Switching between seconds, minutes and hours converts the times already typed, so 90 seconds becomes 1.5 minutes. Undo puts them back.
• Shop mode is hidden until it is finished. A file saved in shop mode opens as a line.

What You Get

• Element times that keep their meaning when you change the unit.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• The same answers give the same stand-in model every time.
• The units and running hours you type for a week set the demand and the shift. With no hours typed, it uses an 8 hour shift with 45 minutes of breaks.
• Station times leave room for each station's changeover, so the slowest station still makes your rate.

What You Get

• A starting model you can reproduce and that fits your week.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• Chart bars and lines draw in the primary color of the tool's look, with the labels on them readable.

What You Get

• Charts that match the rest of the tool on screen and in images.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• Save File uses the current workbook title for the file name. Renaming the workbook renames the next save.

What You Get

• Saved workbooks you can tell apart by name.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• A number box selects its whole value when it opens or gets focus, so a number typed replaces it.
• In a list, the arrow keys move through the options and pick nothing. Enter or a click picks, and Esc puts the value back.
• Rows pasted on the rate step go into The Work's table instead of the rate field.
• On the Ramp Plan, a flip's Try works out its questions again and reads Checking the questions until they are in.

What You Get

• The same figures as 0.5.1, with fewer ways to type a wrong value by accident.

What's New

None in this release.

What Changed

• Takt prints the same on every page: 3.906 hrs on the simple sample at 40.
• Math lines print the digits they multiply at, so each line adds up as printed.
• Every term in a math line opens, edits or links to the place it is set.
• What Moved and the keys work the same on every two-column page.
• One question on a page, and a feature that is off is left out.

What You Get

• Figures you can check by hand from what is on the screen.

What's New

• A one-page report.
• Paste from Excel.
• CSV export.
• Scenario compare.
• A chart image to copy or save.

What Changed

None in this release.

What You Get

• Results you can hand to someone else without retyping them.

What's New

• A one-page capacity report.
• Paste routings from Excel.
• CSV export.
• Scenario snapshots with side-by-side compare.
• A chart image for slides.

What Changed

None in this release.

What You Get

• Results you can hand to someone else without retyping them.