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 available from ShinMaywa software, was released in 2018 by Zenetec Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President: Kenji Ueno; hereinafter "Zenetec") as the exclusive distributor in Japan, and is a manufacturing line, processing process, distribution warehouse, material handling, and other The software allows users to construct simulation models with extremely lightweight 3D graphics and calculate the flow of goods and people. It is also possible to display a wide range of information, such as machine and worker utilization rates, workloads, and work hours, in a single glance using graphs. This enables the discovery of bottlenecks in factories and warehouses and the instantaneous acquisition of comparative data necessary to maximize performance, thereby supporting facility optimization.

At ShinMaywa Soft, we leverage the wealth of experience in IT solutions cultivated by the ShinMaywa Group, which primarily works in the manufacturing industry, to provide integrated 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.