[hemmerling] Simulation & Model Based Development

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• Instrumentation.
• Mathematical Engineering.
• MathWorks ( MATLAB / Simulink ).
• National Instruments ( Labview, DIAdem ).
• PTC Mathcad.
• Computer Aided Engineering ( CAE ).

• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Simulation ( ASIM ).
• The free event CAE-FORUM "Das Norddeutsche Simulationsforum" in Hamburg.
• Simulations-Stammtisch in Hamburg, Braunschweig,..

• Bengt Mårtensson "Gnans" - “A program (and language) for the numerical study of deterministic and stochastic dynamical systems. The dynamical systems may evolve in continuous or discrete time”.

• See Mathematical Engineering.

1. Concurrent Dynamics International.
   • Concurrent Dynamics International "Dynawiz XMR" - “Multibody Dynamics Simulation” (MDS).
   • Once there was a free demo version with some reduced model editing privileges.
2. ITI GmbH "SimulationX".
   • ITI GmbH "SimulationX / Download / Testversion / Studentenversion - Free student edition, just for students.
3. Universal Mechanism.
   • Simulation of kinematics and dynamics of planar and spatial mechanical system.
   • There is a free demo version with the limits: No more than five bodies, five joints and five forces of each type are supported. With registration, the demo version expires after 3 months.

• See Mathematical Engineering.
• See MathWorks ( MATLAB / Simulink ).

1. “WinDORA” / “DORA für Windows”.
   • Technische Universität Dortmund "Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik / Regelungssystemtechnik / Lehrstuhl / Chronik".
   • NuTech Solutions was once the vendor of the commercial edition of “DORA für Windows”.
   • Archive.org " Lehrstuhl für Elektrische Steuerung und Regelung, Fakultät für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Universität Dortmund: Software des Lehrstuhls" → “WINROSA”, “DORA für Windows”.
   • Archive.org "Fachhochschule Darmstadt: Einleitung zu DORA für Windows".
   • Archive.org "Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Würzburg-Schweinfurt: DORA - Skript Dr. Lambert".
2. Visual Solutions Corporation "VisSim" for Windows.
   • A special “VisSim Comm LE 4.5a” edition is shipped with Mathcad 2001 Professional and Mathcad 2001i Professional. The maximum number of blocks is 25.
   • A special “VisSim Comm PE” edition is shipped with Mathcad 2001i Premium. The maximum number of blocks is 100.
   • The free |Visual Solutions Corporation "VisSim Viewer" for Windows.
   • Adept Scientific Knowledge Base "VisSim".
3. Ingenieurbüro Dr. Kahlert "WinFACT" for Windows.

1. The OpenSource The Moses Project - Modeling, Simulation, and Evaluation of Systems, SourceForge "The Moses Project - Modeling, Simulation, and Evaluation of Systems", SourceForge "Moses Tool Suite".
   • Archive.org "Featherlight Project" ( “Codesign Project” ).
2. The free UCLA Parallel Computing Laboratory "Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex Systems ( PARSEC )" - “A C-based simulation language, developed by the Parallel Computing Laboratory at UCLA, for sequential and parallel execution of discrete-event simulation models. It can also be used as a parallel programming language”.
3. The free “SimWiz” by LinkedIn "Moshe Cohen".
   • Even the LinkedIn page has an invalid link to his unavailable personal homepage http://my.jce.ac.il/bani/.
   • Download of the latest edition: Softpedia "SimWiz 5.03".

1. Rockwell Automation "Arena".
   • A software for process modeling and simulation.
   • Rockwell Automation "Arena" - "The Arena Advantage for Students".
     • Rockwell Automation "Arena" - "Trial version of Arena Professional Edition".
       • The Arena Trial is designed with your success in mind. This download includes:
         • Full Functionality.
         • No Time Limit.
         • Limited Model Size (Will complete all problems in the Simulation with Arena 6th ed textbook).
       • Rockwell Automation "Arena" - "Getting Started".
       • Rockwell Automation "Arena" - "Video Library".
   • A special academic version of “Arena”, which can just handle 100 atoms ( Arena 3, Arena 5 ) or 150 atoms ( Arena 7 ), is shipped with the books:
     • Book W. D. Kelton, Randall P. Sadowski, Deborah A. Sadowski: "Simulation with Arena, w. CD-ROM, International Student Edition", © 2001, 2.edition. Includes a limited edition of “Arena 5.0”. A bargain offer !
     • Book David W. Kelton: "Simulation with Arena W/ CD-ROM with CDROM", © 2003, 3.edition. Includes a limited edition of “Arena 7.01”.
     • Book David W. Kelton: "Simulation with Arena, w. CD-ROM", © 2006, 4.edition. Includes a limited edition of “Arena”.
     • Book David W. Kelton: "Simulation with Arena", © 2009, 5.edition. There is no version of this book shipped with a CD, i.e. this book is not a source for a current limited edition of “Arena”.
     • Book David W. Kelton: "Simulation with Arena", © 2014, 6.edition. There is no version of this book shipped with a CD, i.e. this book is not a source for a current limited edition of “Arena”.
   • In opposite to the student version, in the past the full version were activated by an “activation disk”, i.e. an activation was impossible on computers without built-in floppydisk drives .
2. Applied Materials - Automation Software.
   • The commercial simulation software Applied Materials "AutoMod" ( formerly: “Brooks Automation, Inc 'Automod'” ).
     • Applied Materials - AutoMod Academic Program.
     • Simulation of Material Handling, Continuous Process Modeling.
     • The special student version is limited to 200 named enities !
3. Dassault Systèmes "Delmia Quest".
   • Dassault Systèmes - Communities.
   • Dassault Systèmes - 3DS Academy.
4. SimulationsDienstleistungsZentrum GmbH ( SDS GmbH ).
   • SimulationsDienstleistungsZentrum GmbH "DOSIMIS-3" for Windows with DirectX-9.
   • For simulation of material flow, production logistics, distribution logistics, warehouse logistics, transport logistics.
5. Erlang Software "Erlang-G" for Windows.
   • “Traffic and Queuing Software”.
   • “The Erlang-G program is a utility of use in the Voice, Call Center, or Packetized Data Network industries, to help model traffic blockage (loss), and/or delays”.
6. “Extend” and “Extend LT”.
   • Imagine That, Inc..
   • Book Jay Heizer, Barry Render: Operations Management with student CD, 8th edition.
   • Book Jay Heizer, Barry Render: Principles of Operations Management, 5th edition.
   • Some special editions of these books are shipped with a limited version of the simulation software “Extend LT” by Imagine That, Inc., on CD, I got version 4.03a, © 1987-1998. You are limited to 75 blocks on a model. If you open a model with more than 75 blocks, you can run the model but you cannot edit it or save it.
7. General Purpose Simulation System ( GPSS ) based software - discrete simulation software.
   • Software.
     • Minuteman Software "GPSS World".
       • The free student version “GPSS World 4.3.5” is limited to 150 blocks.
     • Wolverine.
       • The free limited simulation tools “Student SLX”, “Student GPSS/H” and Student Proof ( “Student P5”, Student P3D” ).
   • Documentation.
     • GPSS World Reference Manual.
     • GPSS World Tutorial Manual.
     • Wolverine "Books - Learning is easy with our book-plus-software packages".
8. “Global Mobile Information Systems Simulation Library” ( “GloMoSim” ) / “QualNet”.
   • Mobile Systems Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles "GloMoSim".
   • Mobile Systems Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles "Obtaining GloMoSim".
   • The free UCLA Parallel Computing Laboratory "Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex Systems ( PARSEC )" - “A C-based simulation language, developed by the Parallel Computing Laboratory at UCLA, for sequential and parallel execution of discrete-event simulation models. It can also be used as a parallel programming language”.
   • The commercial Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. "QualNet".
9. “Plant Simulation” ( formerly “eM-Plant” ).
   • Siemens Industry Software GmbH & Co. KG "TECNOMATIX - Tranforming the Process of Manufacturing".
     • For graphical modelling, visualisation, simulation and optimization of systems and business processes.
     • With the free student edition of “Plant Simulation”, just for students, you can create modells with up to 80 objects! The student license allows to run the software on a single Windows computer with a certain “Volume Serial Number” ( VSN ) of the OS partition, which must be notified when ordering the product.
     • “GetVolumeInformation” and “SetVolumeInformation” are official Win32 API functions.
     • Windows Sysinternals "VolumeID".
     • About.com, Delphi Programming "Retrieving volume's (disk / drive) serial number. Here's a handy piece of Delphi code to read the serial number of a (disk) drive".
   • Siemens PLM Software.
   • Book Steffen Bangsow: "Fertigungssimulation mit Plant Simulation und SimTalk: Anwendung und Programmierung mit Beispielen und Lösungen".
   • EN.Wikipedia "Plant Simulation", DE.Wikipedia "Plant Simulation".
   • You might import 3D data created with the commercial CAD tool EN.Wikipedia "NX (Unigraphics)", DE.Wikipedia "NX (Siemens)".

1. ProModel Corporation "ProModel".
   • Discrete-event simulation tool that also allows modeling of continuous processes.
   • A special affordable, but not free limited student version is available on CD ! → ProModel Corporation - Academic.
2. CODEWORK Italia "SCHEDULA " - “A general purpose package for the discrete simulation of cascaded activities (as in shop floor simulation)”.
3. CACI.
   • CACI SIMPROCESS - “Business Process Management Software”, “Modeling & Simulation”.
   • CACI SIMSCRIPT - “Modeling & Simulation Software”.
     • “32-bit SIMSCRIPT III trial version contains all the features as 32-bit SIMSCRIPT III Release 2 Standard version, except for the number of processes and process methods that can be activated. It is suitable for learning the product”.
4. SIMUL8 Corporation "SIMUL8".
   • SIMUL8 Corporation "SIMUL8 Software Student Licenses" - “The license is only valid for 6 months, but you can get it extended by special application”.
5. The “Taylor” simulation family, based on the work of “F&H Simulations”: Simulation of manufacturing, logistics, material handling and administration.
   • Flexsim Software Products, Inc. "Flexsim", Flexsim Deutschland - Ingenieurbüro für Simulationsleistung Ralf Gruber, Ingenieurbüro für Simulationsleistung Ralf Gruber.
     • “Taylor II” was developed by the US company that was originally set up by “F&H”. It eventually became “Enterprise Dynamics Inc.” Some staff in this company started development of Flexsim and released the product after the company split.
     • With the free demo version, you can create & store up to 30 atoms !
   • ShowFlow Simulation Software.
     • Un updated version of “Taylor II”. You can load “Taylor II” models !
     • Commercial versions, which can store models:
       • The full version of Showflow can build models of up to 1000 elements.
       • For some markets, they offer a “light” version with a limit of 64 elements per model.
       • The affordable but not free student edition is limited to 16 elements per model.
     • Evaluation versions which can't store models:
       • The evaluation version of Showflow can build models with up to 16 elements.
       • The outdated demo version of “Taylor II 4.2” can build models with up to 20 elements.
   • INCONTROL Simulation Solutions "Enterprise Dynamics".
     • The sucessor of “Taylor Enterprise Dynamics” = Taylor ED”. “Taylor ED” was originally the successor of “Taylor II”, in the means of a “big brother”.
     • INCONTROL Simulation Solutions "ED Academy - The Educational and Research Portal".
       • With the special student version, you can create & store small modells with up to 30 atoms !
     • INCONTROL Simulation Solutions "ED ShowFlow".
6. Lanner, Lanner Simulation Technology GmbH.
   • The commercial simulation software Lanner "WITNESS" - Business simulation system.
   • Lanner - Academic.
   • Once, there was a free limited “WITNESS 2006 Educational” alias “Witness XA, WIN Release”. By special personal request, it was distributed to students on CD, for free. Nowadays, please ask for a current release !

• plavis GmbH "visTABLE" - Software to be used with to touch screens and touch screen tables. “Vom Wertstrom zur 3D Fabrik”.

• The OpenSource University of Edinburgh "Simjava" for Java.
• The OpenSource Simkit by Arnold Buss, for Java - Discrete event simulation ( DES ).

• Mesquite CSIM20 for Java and C/C++.
  • Mesquite "Student Version Limitations" - A special affordable, but not free student version is available for download.
  • A process-oriented, general purpose simulation toolkit written with general C/C++ language functions, for Windows, Linux, MacOSX.
• OMNeT++.
  • Wiki OMNeT++ User Community Wiki.
  • “An extensible, modular, component-based C++ simulation library and framework, primarily for building network simulators”.
  • “Package for Windows contains the MinGW C++ compiler”.
  • EN.Wikipedia "OMNeT++", DE.Wikipedia "OMNeT++" - “The software is licensed under the its own Academic Public License, which allows GNU Public License-like freedom but only in noncommercial settings”.
• Gesellschaft für Prozeßautomation & Consulting mbH "Poses++".
  • “Poses++ is free available software containing a licence threshold of 500 modelling elements. In case you want to handle larger models and you want to purchase licence entries, we would like to submit you an offer”.

• Note that everything is an atom or enity - resources, products, datalinks, graphs etc, even the model itself. In opposite, elements are just that - machines, buffers, conveyors. So don't compare apples with oranges !
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts “Fachhochschule Hannover”.
  • University laboratory Fachhochschule Hannover, Fachgebiete/Labore / Förder- u. Handhabungstechnik, Logistik und Materialfluss - Once the laboratory was using “Taylor II” ( -2007 ), now “Flexsim”.
  • University laboratory Fachhochschule Hannover, Fachgebiete/Labore / Fertigungsautomatisierung, Digitale Fabrik - Using “Delmia Quest” ( 2007 ).
• Archive.org "Edwin Valentin, TU Delft: Discrete event simulation software packages" by Edwin Valentin.

• Modelica.
• EN.Wikipedia "Modelica", DE.Wikipedia "Modelica".

• The free limited ITI "Simulation X, Student Edition " for students only.
• The commercial Dassault Systèmes "Dymola".
  • Past events BAUSCH-GALL GmbH "Informationstage zu Dymola und Modelica", 2004-2008.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Dymola".
  • You might import 3D data created with the commercial CAD tool EN.Wikipedia "CATIA", DE.Wikipedia "CATIA".
  • You can request a CD which contains the demo versions “Dymola 4.6a” and “Dymola 5.3a” which expire 60 days after installation. A current demo version with a “near expiration date” is available for download, too.

• The free AT&T FSM Library - Finite-State Machine Library.
• The OpenSource SourceForge "AutoFSM - Automated Finite State Machine", SourceForge "AutoGen: The Automated Program Generator".
• The OpenSource SourceForge "Finite State Kernel Creator - A CASE Tool for Developing Finite State Machines", SourceForge "Finite State Kernel Creator".
• The OpenSource SourceForge "Finite State Machine Editor", SourceForge "Finite State Machine Editor".
• The OpenSource FSA6.2xx: Finite State Automata Utilities.
• The OpenSource SourceForge "FSMGenerator - Finite State Machine generating software", SourceForge "FSMGenerator (Finite State Machine)".
• The free SwissEduc - Informatik - Programmieren lernen mit Kara - “Kara basiert auf dem Konzept endlicher Automaten”.
• The OpenSource Nunni FSM Generator, SourceForge "Nunni FSM Generator", SourceForge "Nunni FSM Generator".
• The free Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. "Petrify: a tool for synthesis of Petri Nets and asynchronous circuits.
• The OpenSource SourceForge "Qfsm - A graphical tool for designing finite state machines", SourceForge "Qfsm".
• The OpenSource Ragel State Machine Compiler.
• The free [state] method steed.net, a Visual Studio 2008 plugin.
• The OpenSource Statestep - “Can be used to model finite state machine behaviour and ensures that undesirable states are not reachable”.
• The OpenSource WhatOS for Python - “A framework for creating applications consisting of communicating state machines”.
• itemis AG - “YAKINDU”.
  • The OpenSource itemis AG "YAKINDU Open Source".
  • The OpenSource Yakindu.org - “Currently, the focus is on modeling reactive and data flow-oriented systems using the Statechart Tools (SCT) and Damos”.
    • Google Code, Eclipse Labs.
      • Google Code, Eclipse Labs "yakindu. model-driven development toolkit for embedded systems".
    • It supports modeling and system design.
      • Competitor: “Rational Software Architect RealTime Edition” ( IBM RSARTE ).
      • By using the “Composite structure diagram”.
        • EN.Wikipedia "Composite structure diagram", DE.Wikipedia "Kompositionsstrukturdiagramm".
        • UML Diagrams "UML Composite Structure Diagrams".
        • Sparx Systems "UML 2 Composite Structure Diagram".
      • Visual paradigm "Composite Structure diagram".

• Quantum LeaPs.
  • Quantum LeaPs "QP", SourceForge "QP State Machine Frameworks", SourceForge "QP State Machine Frameworks" - “lightweight, open source, state machine frameworks”.
    • Quantum LeaPs "The Licensing Model" - commercial & OpenSource licenses.
  • The free Quantum LeaPs "QP Modeler" - “Cross-platform, graphical UML modeling tool for designing and implementing real-time embedded applications based on the QP state machine frameworks”.

• Dr. Dobbs "Quantum Programming for Embedded Systems: Toward a Hassle-Free Multithreading", 2003.
• ARM mbed "QP active object framework for mbed".
• Arduino Playground "QP state machine framework for Arduino".
• ERIKA Enterprise and RT-Druid Project.
  • Wiki ERIKA Enterprise and RT-Druid.
    • ERIKA Enterprise and RT-Druid "QP framework".
• EN.Wikipedia "QP (framework)".

• See Manufacturing Execution Systems ( MES ) 3/5 - Norms & Design.

• Spin.
  • EN.Wikipedia "SPIN model checker", DE.Wikipedia "SPIN" - “Eines der bekanntesten Werkzeuge zur Modellprüfung (engl. Model Checking). SPIN prüft endliche Zustandsautomaten (engl. Finite State Machines) mit der temporalen Logik LTL”.
• UPP4ALL, Uppaal.
  • “Am integrated tool environment for modeling, validation and verification of real-time systems modeled as networks of timed automata, extended with data types (bounded integers, arrays, etc.)”.
  • Commercial and academic licenses.

• Dynamic modification of algorithms, SourceForge "Dynamic modification of algorithms", SourceForge "Dynamic modification of algorithms" - “based on Dynamic Attachment Finite State Machine (DAFSM), a finite state machine theory”.

• EASYCODE GmbH "EasyCODE".
  • DE.Wikipedia "EasyCODE".
• ETAS "ASCET".
  • DE.Wikipedia "ASCET".
• IBM Rational Statemate.
  • IBM developerworks "IBM Rational Statemate".
• The MathWorks Stateflow.
• microTOOL GmbH "Case/4/0".
  • DE.Wikipedia "Case/4/0".
• National Instruments Corporation "NI MATRIXx".
• Quantum Leaps - “State machines and graphical tools for embedded system”.
• StateWORKS.
• IAR visualSTATE for Windows ( W2k, WinXP, Vista, Win7 ) - There is a free “20-state evaluation edition”.

• Book Miro Samek: "Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems".

• EN.Wikipedia "Finite-state machine", EN.Wikipedia "Endlicher Automat", DE.Wikipedia "Abstrakte Zustandsmaschine".
• EN.Wikipedia "State diagram", DE.Wikipedia "Zustandsübergangsdiagramm".
• EN.Wikipedia "Shlaer–Mellor method" - System development method which makes use of state machines ( state diagrams ).
• EN.Wikipedia "Model checking", DE.Wikipedia "Model Checking".
• EN.Wikipedia "Linear temporal logic", DE.Wikipedia "Lineare temporale Logik" ( LTL ).

• The OpenSource SCIRun for Windows and Linux - “A Problem Solving Environment (PSE), for modeling, simulation and visualization of scientific problems”.
• The commercial GoldSim “Monte Carlo Simulation Software for Decision and Risk Analysis”.
  • GoldSim Wiki.

• Archive.org "Peter Ball: Introduction to Discrete Event Simulation - “Building a model using WITNESS”.
• Creative Learning Exchange " Road Maps" - “System Dynamics & Systems Thinking in K-12 Education”, “A self-study guide to learning system dynamics”.
• Algorithms for model based identificaton processes.
  • Monte Carlo.
  • Evolution.
  • Simulated Anealing.

• Book Miro Samek: "Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems".
  • Accompanying webpage for the book Quantum LeaPs. "Miro Samek: Practical UML Statecharts in C/C++, Second Edition: Event-Driven Programming for Embedded Systems" ( PSiCC2 ).

• Direct Industry.
  • Direct Industry "Computing, Software and Communications".
  • Direct Industry "Calculation, Simulation, Modeling software".
• Eng-Tips Forums "General Engineering Programs Category".
• MeTAL PASS Resource, Solution, E-Biz "Metal Industry Software Directory".
  • MeTAL PASS Resource, Solution, E-Biz "Finite Element Analysis".
  • MeTAL PASS Resource, Solution, E-Biz "Simulation"
• Markus Roskothen, The McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences: Simulation software.
• Andrea Emilio Rizzoli - "A Collection of Modelling and Simulation Resources on the Internet" #.
  • Andrea Emilio Rizzoli "Simulation tools.".
  • Andrea Emilio Rizzoli "Simulation links".
• SIMUL8 Corporation "Simulation Links".
• Archive.org "The Simulation Education Homepage".
• SoftGuide "Aktuelle Marktübersicht - Software für Simulation".
• EN.Wikipedia "Run-Time Infrastructure (simulation)".

• Facebook "CAE-Forum.de".
• INCONTROL Simulation Solutions "ED Community - The Enterprise Dynamics Community".
• Imagine That, Inc. - ExtendSim User Forums.
  • Imagine That, Inc. "extendsim eXchange - Virtual Meeting Romm for Simulationists".
• Flexsim Community Forum.
• Google Groups "comp.simulation".
• LinkedIn Groups "Simulation Language with eXtensibility Users Group".
• Scalable Network Technologies, Inc. "QualNet/Exata Community Forums".
• SIMPROCESS Forums.
• SIMUL8 Corporation "SIMUL8 Cafe - Online Discussion Forum".
• SourceForge Forum "QP State Machine Frameworks".
• XING "Simulation FEM / MKS / ..".
• Yahoo Groups "erlang-software · Erlang Software Discussion".

• Simul8 Corporation - Simulation Links.

• OpenDirectory "Top: Science: Software: Simulation".
• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Robotics: Software: Simulation".
• OpenDirectory "Top: Science: Technology: Chemical Engineering: Software: Process Simulation".