A two-day public course that counts toward the RMIC® credential, one-hour online sessions on each part of the workflow, and on-site training built around your own line.
Making Smarter Decisions with Simulation, a two-day hands-on workshop
Registration is handled by the University of Tennessee, and you’ll be asked to sign in or create a UTK account.
Taught at the Reliability & Maintainability Center, UT Knoxville.
This course counts toward the Reliability & Maintainability Implementation Certification (RMIC®). That’s the RMC’s professional credential, earned through a mix of RMC and partner courses plus a guided implementation project. Certification requirements →
Reliability programs often mature without throughput improving. Reliability metrics explain what broke, not how the production system responds when something changes. Using full-factory production data, participants evaluate reliability, operational and capital decisions at the system level. That’s where failures, buffers, operating policies and shared resources actually interact.
By the end of day two you’ll have built a validated system model from real production data. You’ll have seen why interdependencies rather than isolated failures drive utilization, and you’ll be able to defend a reliability, operational or capital decision with evidence. You don’t need any prior simulation experience.
Each session is one hour in a small group, live with an instructor, for $60 a session. Bring lunch and leave knowing how to do the task. Six sessions cover the whole workflow, from the discrete-rate worldview through to experiment design, and you can take them in any order.
Learn the fundamentals of discrete rate simulation and why it's the preferred approach for high-speed and high-volume production systems. Understand the core concepts behind rate-based modeling and how ReliaSim® applies them.
Schedule SessionHands-on training in building production flow models with ReliaSim's markdown syntax and click-connect interface. Build your first model from scratch and learn the text-based model building workflow.
Schedule SessionAn in-depth look at interrupt modeling. It covers failure modes, time-to-failure and time-to-repair distributions, competing vs. cumulative clocks, and how reliability data drives what the simulation does.
Schedule SessionLearn how to take raw historian and event log data and fit it to statistical distributions using ReliaStats. Turn your operational data into the parameters that drive accurate simulation models.
Schedule SessionMake sure your model is accurate and trustworthy. Learn techniques for verifying model logic and validating simulation output against real production data.
Schedule SessionPut your validated model to work. Run gain/loss experiments, explore trade-offs between buffer capacity and reliability improvements, and identify the failure modes that actually move throughput, rather than the ones that dominate the loss report.
Schedule SessionReliaSim's discrete rate engine models high-speed production systems as flow rather than as individual items.
Discrete Rate Simulation has been trusted by Fortune-listed companies for decades to simulate high-speed and large-volume bulk flow systems.
A handful of simple, opinionated concepts makes it easier to think about your production process model. Build faster with fewer abstractions.
Modular, reusable constructs (Constraints, Converters, and Buffers) let you build production models quickly, with rate control and accumulation behavior built in.
Nodes automatically simulate blocking and starving based on the dynamics of the line over time. The simulation works out the dominant cause of failure as it runs.
Integrated reliability interrupts with multiple failure modes per unit operation drive high-fidelity behavior using competing, cumulative, and wall-clock criteria.
No drag-and-drop required. Models are built from text-based markdown and click-connect, so they diff and version like source code.
Flow stays in equilibrium automatically through unit conversions at any stage in the process, and you can add in-line additions or losses if you need them.
Every run produces its own animation automatically. Playback and scrub controls let you review every node's state over time.
All data lives inside your firewall. Only license and version checks go over the internet. It's a full desktop application with no cloud dependency.
Lunch & Learn covers the workflow an hour at a time. For teams who want it in one block, or want it taught on their own line, we run full in-person classes and custom on-site programs.
A complete instructor-led course covering the discrete-rate worldview, model building, interrupt modeling and experiment design end to end. It’s taught in one block rather than an hour at a time.
At your plant, built around your line and your data. Your team leaves having modeled their own operation rather than a demo, and that’s usually what makes a course get used afterward.
For operators, supervisors and planners rather than modelers: a game built on your own line, where people practice what to fix first, where storage goes and how the schedule plays out. How it works →
Schedule a training session or book a demo to see ReliaSim in action on your production data.
