Products & Software

Planimate®

Planimate® is a mature application development platform in which to build highly interactive and animated tools for decision support in your business or organisation. Because it handles time so precisely, it is a highly effective means to build applications that will assist you to plan and schedule the on-going operations of your organisation. It has been successfully used to plan and schedule many large logistics, transportation, manufacturing, mining and service organisations since 1989.

Planimate® is favoured in a number of universities for teaching because it is easy to learn, enabling students to quickly access and grasp the principles of simulation modelling. The Planimate® platform incorporates several fundamental, built-in capabilities:

  • Animation and concurrency,
  • Visual workflow modelling,
  • Dynamic time-based modelling (simulations),
  • Feature-rich tools to create interactive end-user applications.
  • Web-based application capabilities

Utilizing a dynamic Planimate® application enables you to more realistically assess a business plan or development proposal for both financial feasibility and operational effectiveness. Not only does it handle time and variability far more effectively than spreadsheets, non-technical people can confirm the validity of its calculations visually. A trial download is available.

Planimate-Based Applications: Design, Planning & Scheduling

Organisations are dynamic systems, often changing unpredictably over time. Effective planning and scheduling of operations requires taking such changes into account. Using the extra dimension of time-based visualizations and animation, Planimate-based applications enable you to uncover coordination and improvement opportunities that directly contribute to your bottom line in a manner that spreadsheets cannot approach. Such tools have to-date been used for capacity and financial planning, scheduling, system integration and workflow mapping applications. They can also amplify your in-house communications and they promote a common operational understanding across your whole organisation.

Fatigue Assessment - FAID™

FAID™ is a stand-alone software product that derives a risk assessment of one or more individual's fatigue, based on their hours-of-work over the past 7 days. It is especially useful for shiftwork applications in safety-critical work. FAID™ Personal enables individuals to maintain their own roster and to monitor the impact of their recent work / rest history on their current fatigue levels. It assists them to determine when they can safely be available for work again, and to predict how long they can work before the risk is serious. There is also a hand-held version available for Palm. Downloads for testing are available.

FaidSafe® – Fatigue Safety System

This product is a comprehensive fatigue safety system built on three levels of protection that enables organisations to establish the adequacy of current and future controls that can help protect against fatigue hazards inherent in their operations. FaidSafe® is based on a holistic diagnosis of operational, capacity and cultural exposures, coupled with different levels of safeguards. It use recognises that a comprehensive Risk Engineering approach is required in order to adequately manage human and financial risks due to fatigue.