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Essays on the parts of warehouse-robotics simulation that bite when you go from preset to pilot.
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Pilot vs. sim: where the 30% throughput surprise comes from
Your pilot underperformed the sim by ~30%, or your sim underperformed the pilot. Both are common. Here is the short list of what almost always causes the gap, and how WareMax narrows it.
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Reading a sim: what 'high fidelity' actually buys you
Sim vendors say 'high fidelity' to mean 'pixels'. We mean: typed events, lognormal service times, canonical tie-breaking, and a delay decomposition that sums to cycle time. Here is the difference.
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Why discrete-event sim beats continuous for AMR planning
Continuous-time models look honest until you ask them for the cycle-time tail. DES is the right level of detail for fleet sizing and dispatching, and here is why.
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