January 13, 2021

ShinMaywa Soft Technologies, Ltd. (100% owned subsidiary of ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., Head Office: Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, President & CEO: Mayumi Yoshimura, hereinafter referred to as "ShinMaywa Soft") is Head Office in Utah, USA FlexSim Software Products, Inc., the first distributor of the discrete-event simulation software standard developed by FlexSim Software Products, will begin handling on January 13.

The latest version of "FlexSim" (Japanese), now being released by ShinMaywa Software, was originally released in 2018 by Genetec Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kenji Ueno; hereinafter "Genetec") as the sole distributor in Japan. This software allows users to construct simulation models of manufacturing lines, processing processes, logistics warehouses, and material handling systems using extremely lightweight 3D graphics, and to calculate the flow of goods and people. It also allows for a quick overview of a wide range of information, such as machine and worker utilization rates, workload, and working hours, using graphs. This enables the identification of bottlenecks in factories and warehouses, and provides the necessary comparative data to maximize performance, thereby supporting facility optimization.

At ShinMaywa Software, we leverage the extensive experience in IT solutions cultivated within ShinMaywa Group, which is primarily a manufacturing company, to provide comprehensive services from sales to implementation and support.

Comments from Masatoshi Hachinohe, Director of Zenetec and General Manager of Engineering Solutions Division:
“ShinMaywa Soft Technologies, Ltd. has a wealth of knowledge in IT solutions for the manufacturing industry, including ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., Ltd., and is a sales partner that we can trust with confidence, from proposing and selling FlexSim to providing support. We hope that you will combine FlexSim with our rich solutions and know-how to bring out the best of FlexSim in order to derive optimal solutions for your customers' on-site and management issues."

As a group company of a major manufacturing company, we aim to sell five bottles in the first year in order to leverage our strengths, which have extensive knowledge of the manufacturing industry, and contribute to the optimization of manufacturing sites mainly in the Kansai region.

1. Five features of “FlexSim”

(1) Simple and easy to use

• Simulation models can be built using drag and drop, shortcut keys, etc..
• You can change the appearance of objects by importing external files.

(2) Data is light and calculations can be performed even with large layouts

• Instant and repeated calculations are possible even in large-scale factories and distribution warehouses.

(3) Graph the results and display them in an easy-to-understand manner

• We have various templates such as pie graphs, bar graphs, Gantt charts, etc..
• Automatically update graphs according to simulation time series.
• Easy comparison with unified display.

(4) Processes can be edited without programming

• With the process flow function, complex processes that take into account picking order, transport route, machine tool capacity, etc. can be constructed without programming.
• Scripts can be edited directly.

(5) Compatible with the latest VR (Virtual Reality) technology

• Compatible with common VR headsets such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive.