Global Maritime announces the release of OPSIM 4.0, our strategic planning tool designed to provide event-based simulations for project optimization and cost reduction.
OPSIM 4.0 introduces a "Delay Causes" block, enabling users to associate limits with specific named causes of delay. This feature allows users to analyse and report on the sources of downtime. The update also facilitates the definition of multiple cost types, allowing users to monitor both monetary and environmental impacts for each scenario.
The new features allow limiting criteria (such as on task types in a task list) to blame a specific named cause in the event that the criteria are not satisfied. This allows for the overall delay for each task list to be split into each of these causes, without the need to run specific scenarios and sensitivities (though this may still be desirable to capture "knock-on" effects).
In addition, we have added an expanded costs feature to allow for multiple categories of cost. Previously only a single category of cost could be associated with tasks (assumed to be equivalent to financial cost). It is now possible to define multiple named cost categories to cover e.g. both financial and environment costs, such as CO2 emissions.
GM OPSIM creates operation models by inputting limits, tasks, site-specific metocean data and other variables, and running multiple simulations of operations. Once complete, OPSIM outputs data that determines the most effective method, whether it be the most streamlined or most cost-effective.
Originally developed for the offshore oil and gas market, OPSIM is being utilised for early-stage cost estimations and scheduling at transport and installation stage, as well as for ongoing operations and maintenance programmes in the offshore wind sector.
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