AnyLogic: Simulation Modeling Software Tools & Solutions

AnyLogic

AnyLogic simulation software is used in these industries:

Supply Chains

supply chain design
policy evaluation
risk assessment
and more...
Manufacturing

production planning

process improvement

layout optimization

and more...
Transportation

logistics planning

fleet management

risk analysis

and more...
Warehouse Operations

layout design
picking optimization
staffing policies
and more...
Rail Logistics

network design

schedule optimization

policy testing

and more…
Mining & Metals

forecasts & analysis

excavation planning

fleet optimization

and more...
Oil & Gas

operations planning

storage management

oil transfer

and more...
Ports & Terminals

container & bulk

resource mgmt

risk assessment

and more...
Road Traffic

road planning

throughput analysis

network optimization

and more…
Passenger Terminals

building capacity
service points
evacuation planning
and more...
Healthcare

facility design

process improvement
policy evaluation
and more...
Business Processes

operational efficiency
cost reduction
bottleneck analysis
and more...
Asset Management

forecasting
risk analysis
project ranking
and more...
Marketing

consumer choice
market behavior
promotion response
and more...
Social Processes

healthcare policies
economic processes
environmental impact
and more...
Defense

maintenance scheduling

operations planning

supply chain & logistics

and more...

More industries

Why simulation modeling?

Risk-free environment
Simulation modeling provides a safe way to test and explore different “what-if” scenarios. Make the right decision before making real-world changes.
Save money and time
Virtual experiments with simulation models are less expensive and take less time than experiments with real assets.
Visualization
Simulation models can be animated in 2D/3D, allowing concepts and ideas to be more easily verified, communicated, and understood.
Insight into dynamics
Unlike spreadsheet- or solver-based analytics, simulation modeling allows observation of system behavior over time at any level of detail. E.g., you can check warehouse storage space utilization at any given date.
Increased accuracy
A simulation model can capture much more details than an analytical model, which provides for increased accuracy and more precise forecast.
Handle uncertainty
Uncertainty in operations’ time and outcome can be easily represented in simulation models, which allows you to measure risk and find more robust solutions.

Why AnyLogic simulation software?

Multimethod simulation modeling

Develop simulation models using all three modern methods:

The three methods can be used in any combination, with one software, to simulate business systems of any complexity. In AnyLogic simulation software, you can use various visual modeling languages: process flowcharts, statecharts, action charts, and stock & flow diagrams.

AnyLogic was the first tool to introduce multimethod simulation modeling, and still remains the only software that has that capability.

Animation and visualization

Convert flowcharts into interactive movies with spectacular 3D and 2D graphics.
Present your simulation models to stakeholders in a visually attractive and self-explanatory way.
Use the extensive set of graphical objects to visualize vehicles, staff, equipment, buildings, and other items and processes related to your business.
Import custom 3D models, images, CAD drawings, and shape files into your simulations.
Make your simulation models interactive by adding intuitive navigation and controls.
Turn your simulations into comprehensive management dashboards.

Industry-specific libraries

Process Modeling Library for generic business processes or workflows.
Fluid Library to simulate bulk cargo and liquid transfer in industries like mining or oil & gas.
Rail Library for rail transportation, terminals, and yards.
Pedestrian Library for pedestrian flows in airports, stadiums, stations, or shopping malls.
Road Traffic Library for car, truck, and bus movement on roads, parking lots, and factory sites.
Material Handling Library for manufacturing and warehouse processes.

GIS maps integration

AnyLogic simulation software provides the unique ability to use GIS maps within your simulation models.
Maps can be applied to model systems like supply chains, logistics networks, and other cases when you need to take into account locations, roads, routes, or regions.
Built-in search in the style of Google Maps allows you to easily locate cities, streets, roads, hospitals, shops, and bus stops by using the map data. The search works both when you design the model and when the model is running.
Simulation model elements can be placed on the map and moved along existing roads and routes based on real spatial data.

Simulation in the cloud

AnyLogic Cloud is a secure web platform for more efficient applied simulation at your organization’s operational level.

Easier connect models with operational data and simplify the creation of digital twins.
Instantly deliver models to your clients in a ready-to-use cloud environment.
Manage model versions, compare scenarios, and store simulation results – all in the cloud.
Perform complex multi-run experiments faster and more efficiently than on a regular computer.
Create online simulation-based solutions with custom visualization and embedded animation.
Use cloud-based models to help neural networks learn faster and more efficiently.

Digital twins development

Leverage AnyLogic’s flexibility to simulate environments regardless of their complexity.
Seamlessly connect simulations with external data sources, export models to run them remotely, and develop web interfaces with AnyLogic Cloud and its API.
Streamline digital twin development with industry-specific libraries.
Use powerful 3D animation to visualize your digital twin at any level of detail.
Test and analyze digital twin behavior using AnyLogic’s rich experiment framework to explore the system from different angles.

Simulation and AI

Apply AnyLogic software to construct detailed and robust virtual environments for training and testing your AI models.

Use simulation models as testbeds to validate the behavior of trained AI models before deploying in the real world.
Simulate environments for training learning agents using deep reinforcement learning.
Generate clean, structured, and labeled data for use with supervised learning, analytics, and data mining applications.
Use AnyLogic’s open API and programming capability to link AI algorithms and machine learning libraries with simulation models.
Enhance and accelerate AI development by leveraging AnyLogic Cloud for its computing power, parallel model execution, and open RESTful API.
Use visual modeling languages and scripting capabilities to manage complexities for simple, clear, and elegant models.

Real voices on AnyLogic usage

Hear directly from our users how AnyLogic helps businesses model, optimize, and make smarter decisions.

We use AnyLogic to understand better, improve and demonstrate how complex systems work. My personal favorite aspect of AnyLogic is the fact that it compiles the simulation models into a general purpose, fully object-oriented program language, like Java. Which allows us to embed optimization algorithms into simulations without writing unnecessary code.

Onur Dulgeroglu, Senior Analytics Engineer,
General Electric
I go back with AnyLogic to the very beginning: over ten years now. Ten years ago, AnyLogic was what I call the only industrial strength product that had a hope of doing both system dynamics, agent based, and discrete event in one package. As best as I can tell, it’s still the only package that has that capability. As we do more especially in the realm of agent based models, there are some open-source tools, but none of them has anything close to the functionality that AnyLogic does.

Dr. Mark Paich, Director,
PwC
We chose AnyLogic to tackle our large complex problem because of the multimethod models you can use, the mix of agent based, discrete event and system dynamics is a very useful combination. My favorite part of AnyLogic is all the dashboard features, the great charts and business intelligence you can get from the agents that are working in the model.

Kyle Johnson, Global Business Services, Advanced Analytics and Optimization,
IBM Global Business Services
AnyLogic has a nice object-oriented feature that allows you to create a component and reuse it, which is very useful to us, plus, the user interface has many built in charts. The most valuable feature of AnyLogic to me is to export a model, and let anyone run it on their computer without a software license.

Victor Chang, Software Engineer,
Intel
In my opinion, AnyLogic is one of the most flexible and efficient simulation tools on the market, that can be applied for solving operational and strategic tasks in a wide range of industries, including retail and logistics.

Andrey Semenov, Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Management,
Deloitte
Although I am still a new user of AnyLogic, I have been very impressed with its flexibility, ease of use, and the multimethod capabilities. AnyLogic’s versatility and standard libraries allow us to address a large number of different business process automation questions very quickly and with one software tool. I also believe the ability to customize ours models with Java code is invaluable when modeling the complex interactions in today’s real-world systems and operations.

Dr. Gregory Kott, Principal Research Scientist, PARC. a Xerox Company,
Xerox
AnyLogic support team has been very proactive in supporting my projects and meeting my deadlines. I’ve been working with AnyLogic software less than a month and I'm feeling confident moving forward as I continuously learn a lot from the support team. AnyLogic support team to me is brilliant, fast, energetic and fully equipped with technical knowledge. Fear no more as anyone can easily learn simulation with AnyLogic's perfect support team guidance and user-friendly software.

Ching-synn Teo,
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.)
AnyLogic was the clear choice after comprehensive evaluation of multiple systems and further prototyping in those that were shortlisted. Furthermore, it continues to impress the deeper we get. There's no doubt the right simulation and modelling tool was selected for the majority of our current and future needs.

Jay Ta'ala, Senior Modeller, Supply Chain Analytics,
BHP Billiton
We chose AnyLogic because of its flexibility. We have many customers in many industries that have very different requirements because their supply chains are different, and we’ve been very easily able to change our models quickly to interact with the customers. The agent based tool is very powerful for us, our automated robots are highly intelligent, and AnyLogic is able to handle the complexity of the interactions amongst those 500 robots and able to do computations efficiently.

Dr. Larry M. Sweet, CTO,
Symbotic
The benefit of agent-based modeling in AnyLogic is to truly model our supply chain. Each of the agents we use in our simulation can correspond to vessels, distribution centers, ports of loading, ports of discharge, our retailers, etc. with their own behaviors. AnyLogic makes it easy for me to give our many agents their own customizable behaviors and let them interact together in a fully integrated software.

Beth Tyrie,
Fruit of the Loom
We use simulation tools, including AnyLogic, to analyze alternative capital investment solutions in order to help decide on the best investment decision. AnyLogic has helped with that decision process by providing our company with a tool that is flexible/adaptable to build models in different groups within our company using the team license server. We can easily use and combine multiple simulation methods to create the best modeling approach for each problem.

Jeremiah Dirnberger,
CSX Technology
I've used AnyLogic and a number of other simulation tools as part of hospital services design over many years. I prefer AnyLogic for its flexibility and multimodal capabilities and wholeheartedly recommend it.

Keith Stockman,
Monash Health
I’ve been using AnyLogic for about three or four years now, and I found that it’s probably one of the better solutions out there for really being able to implement models if you don’t necessarily have a very extensive coding background to start with.

Joseph Simkins,
Battelle Memorial Institute
One of the most important AnyLogic features is the ability to build our own libraries. We only have to build them once, but can use them multiple times in different models.

Gunnar Feldmann, Assistant Operations Research Specialist,
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Frequently asked questions

What is simulation?

Simulation lets you test how a real system might work without taking risks in the real world. When people ask what simulation is, they usually mean a computer model of a process, business, factory, supply chain, hospital, or another complex system. You can change inputs, run scenarios, and see what may happen next. This helps you make better decisions before you invest time, money, or resources.

What are different types of simulations?

There are several simulation techniques, and each one helps with a different kind of question. Discrete-event simulation is useful when you need to study processes, queues, and operations. Agent-based simulation helps you model people, vehicles, equipment, or other individual objects and how they interact. System dynamics is better for long-term strategy, trends, and feedback loops.

What is an example of modeling and simulation?

A simple example of modeling and simulation of a supply chain is building a virtual model of warehouses, routes, inventory, and demand. You can test what happens if demand grows, a supplier is delayed, or a warehouse moves to a new location. Instead of guessing, you compare different scenarios in the model. This gives you clearer answers before making real changes.

How does computer simulation technology work in different industries?

Computer simulation technology helps people understand complex systems by recreating them as digital models. In manufacturing, it can show bottlenecks and help improve production. In healthcare, it can help plan patient flow, staffing, and capacity. AI can speed up this work by helping with data analysis, forecasting, and scenario generation.

What tools or software are best for impact model data analytics?

The best tool depends on the type of system you want to analyze and the decisions you need to make. Unlike traditional analytics tools that focus on historical data, AnyLogic helps you understand how changes may affect future performance. You can combine simulation with your existing data, BI platforms, and AI tools to test scenarios, evaluate risks, and compare alternatives before taking action. This makes it easier to understand the potential impact of decisions and choose the best path forward.

AnyLogic Simulation Software

Make intelligent decisions

AnyLogic Cloud

access, run, and share simulation models online

AnyLogic Simulation Software

Make intelligent decisions

AnyLogic Cloud

access, run, and share simulation models online

AnyLogic Simulation Software

Make intelligent decisions

AnyLogic Cloud

access, run, and share simulation models online

AnyLogic Simulation Software

Make intelligent decisions

AnyLogic Cloud

access, run, and share simulation models online

AnyLogic simulation software is used in these industries:

Why simulation modeling?

Risk-free environment

Save money and time

Visualization

Insight into dynamics

Increased accuracy

Handle uncertainty

These companies trust us

Why AnyLogic simulation software?

Multimethod simulation modeling

Animation and visualization

Industry-specific libraries

GIS maps integration

Simulation in the cloud

Digital twins development

Simulation and AI

Real voices on AnyLogic usage

Frequently asked questions

What is simulation?

What are different types of simulations?

What is an example of modeling and simulation?

How does computer simulation technology work in different industries?

What tools or software are best for impact model data analytics?