Love the movie Moneyball. It is a great example of what numbers can do to answer those tough questions you have about your operations. How you can build a team around statistics rather…
Too often I have seen projects go off track due to certain stakeholders I like to refer to as Table Pounders. These are the ones that will speak the loudest and demand that certain…
Simulation models create heaps of performance data for every component in a modeled system (transactional, state, and usage data). However, understanding what that data represents with regards to other data can be very challenging…
I’m writing this post because I feel I left some things unsaid from my last post – On Our Watch. This was mainly spurred from the great comments from fellow engineers who were caring…
I am disappointed in my fellow engineers. Lately our world has been affected in a negative way due to our actions. I’m talking about the recent investigations into the automotive industry and our…
There are a lot of stats on the high percentage of senior leaders making decisions from intuition or gut instincts, but I won’t quote any of those here as 50% of all stats…
In my past experience I have worked on both the engineering side as well as the client when evaluating project scope. Too often I have seen infrastructure incorrectly designed and for many reasons…
Visual Analytics is key to validating simulation models. Allowing the decision makers to gain comfort that the model is performing as it was intended is being able to see their operations live and…
A picture says a thousand words. A motion picture tells a story. Simulations bring your operations to life!