What's New in Floor Simulator
Every release of Floor Simulator on this site, newest first: what is new, what changed and what you get.
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Floor Simulator 0.6.0
A line is built in four steps, each on its own page, with one answer line on every step. A station is timed by its longest chain of operations, and copies are sized to a busy limit.
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.
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Floor Simulator 0.5.2
Three input fixes from a usability audit of 0.5.1. No figure the engine computes moved.
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.
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Floor Simulator 0.5.1
24 fixes from the 0.5.0 final check. No figure the engine computes moved: what changed is how figures print, where links land, and keys and focus.
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.