Enterprise Dynamics is a discrete event simulation software platform developed by INCONTROL Simulation Solutions. It is used to design and implement simulation solutions. The Enterprise Dynamics (ED) platform has several market-specific libraries to conform to customer requirements. These libraries are:

• ED Logistics
• ED Production
• ED PLATO
• ED Airport
• ED Transport
• ED Warehouse
• ED Educational
• ED Showflow

History

Enterprise Dynamics is developed with the knowledge of the simulation software package Taylor II. Taylor II was developed by the company F&H Simulations. Over 10 years Taylor II was used world wide, however the package reached the end of its life cycle. In the year 1998, the newly developed simulation platform Taylor Enterprise Dynamics was introduced. In the year 2000, F&H Simulations was taken over by the consulting company and simulation software distributor Incontrol Business Engineers. The new company name became INCONTROL Simulation Solutions and Taylor ED was renamed to Enterprise Dynamics.

Fields of Application

Enterprise Dynamics has been applied or is currently being applied in the following fields: Automotive, Electronics

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

, Production

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

, Logistics & Distribution, Airports, Material Handling

Material handling

-Material Handling Industry:Material Handling is the movement, storage, control and protection of materials, goods and products throughout the process of manufacturing, distribution, consumption and disposal. The focus is on the methods, mechanical equipment, systems and related controls used to...

, Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management

Supply chain management is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers...

, Harbors, Rail

Rail

Rail or rails may refer to:Railway transportation* A generic term for railroads, railways, rail transport, and related matters* Rail tracks, or railway lines, the running surface of a railway...

, Banking & Finance, Contact Centers, Educational, Healthcare, Sports & Events and Public & Service.

Architecture

Enterprise Dynamics is an object-oriented simulation platform combined with an event-oriented approach. The user can select standard simulation objects (the so-called 'Atoms'), in which the behavior of their real life equivalents is captured, from a library and create a model by clicking and dragging the objects into the model space. For each simulation object, parameters can be altered to change its behavior.

Version History

Version	Codename	Release date	Major changes
1.0	Taylor Enterprise Dynamics\TED	1997
2.0	Taylor ED	1998
2.3		November 1999
3.0	Taylor ED 2000	June 2000
3.2
3.3
3.4		June 2001
4.0		December 2001
5.0
6.0	Official Release 6	October 2003	Improved GUI Builder Improved 4DScript functionality Renewed Help system Improved 2D and 3D visualization
6.1		January 2004	Small updates for Atoms, Visualization and Help system
6.2		March 2004	High-speed timer functionality Optimization of 4DScript functions Improvement of the Help system
6.3		July 2004	Improvements of several Atoms Improvements of function 'RegisterFunction' Improvement of the speed with which ED is capable of dealing with 'Labels'
7.0	Official Release 7	April 2006	Further improvements of visualization and engine Improvements of 4DScript functionality (ADO and XML) Addition of a Scenario Manager
7.1	Summer 2006	September 2006	Improved search functionality Addition of sensor functionality to the Advanced Conveyor Atoms
7.2	Winter 2007	December 2007	Addition of a set of Result atoms Major visualization issues (related to black objects in 2D view and missing buttons due to high screen resolutions) were solved New GUIs (according to a standardized design) Revision and extension of the Example Models
8.0	Official Release 8	April 2009	Addition of the Advanced Automated Storage/Retrieval System (ASRS) 3D Modeling functionality
8.1	Spring 2010	May 2010	3D visualization of the Result Atoms Support for anaglyphs in 3D view Addition of new 'Advanced Linear Robot' and new 'Advanced Scara Robot'
8.2	Spring 2011	May 2011	Extension of 3D Modeling functionality Drawing polygons in 2D Extension of the GUI Builder
9.0

Add-ons

Several add-ons are available that will extent the functionality of ED. These add-ons are:

• CAD Import Wizard
• DLL Kit
• Emulation - OPC
• Multicrane - Controller
• Security Kit
• OptQuest

External links

• incontrolsim.com