With the diagnostic guide, learn how to:

Find the real bottleneck

Identify where queues, waiting, labor constraints, downtime, or material flow are actually limiting throughput, not just where utilization looks high.

Test changes before implementing them

Compare staffing, equipment, layout, scheduling, and capacity scenarios virtually to understand their impact before changing the live operation.

Make better system-wide decisions

Evaluate throughput, WIP, lead time, utilization, and delivery risk together so improvements in one area do not simply create a new bottleneck elsewhere.

Stop guessing. Simulate your factory operations.

30%

…increases in throughput are possible through reduced waste, downtime, and operational disruption.
Source: McKinsey & Company

30–50%

…reductions in machine downtime are possible with digital factory initiatives.
Source: McKinsey & Company

“It’s not very often you can explore the full range of variability that can occur in manufacturing processes. One of the things I was impressed by in FlexSim was its ability to model that variability, which allows us to visualize the process—as opposed to looking at numbers on a spreadsheet.”

— Lance Kelly, President of Belts & Chain, Timken

Labor productivity up by 27%

enabling the factory to increase throughput with a more efficient team
"Autodesk is integral to a lot of projects that we do.
We have used FlexSim, which is a discrete event simulation software, to run those what-if scenarios."

— Niranjan Kulkarni, Senior Director for Consulting Services, CRB

15% productivity increase

in overall equipment effectiveness
"The FlexSim model allowed us to do optimization runs where we could zero in on how many people we needed on each level and how big a pick wave we can run."

— John Friedl, Senior Vice President of Automation and Innovation, ThredUp

3x inventory capacity increase

& pick/putaway efficiency increase 6x

The factory bottleneck diagnostic guide

With the diagnostic guide, learn how to:

Find the real bottleneck

Test changes before implementing them

Make better system-wide decisions

Stop guessing. Simulate your factory operations.

30%

30–50%

Labor productivity up by 27%

"Autodesk is integral to a lot of projects that we do.
We have used FlexSim, which is a discrete event simulation software, to run those what-if scenarios."

15% productivity increase

"The FlexSim model allowed us to do optimization runs where we could zero in on how many people we needed on each level and how big a pick wave we can run."

3x inventory capacity increase

Ready to find the real bottleneck?

The factory bottleneck diagnostic guide

With the diagnostic guide, learn how to:

Find the real bottleneck

Test changes before implementing them

Make better system-wide decisions

Stop guessing. Simulate your factory operations.

30%

30–50%

Labor productivity up by 27%

"Autodesk is integral to a lot of projects that we do. We have used FlexSim, which is a discrete event simulation software, to run those what-if scenarios."

15% productivity increase

"The FlexSim model allowed us to do optimization runs where we could zero in on how many people we needed on each level and how big a pick wave we can run."

3x inventory capacity increase

Ready to find the real bottleneck?

"Autodesk is integral to a lot of projects that we do.
We have used FlexSim, which is a discrete event simulation software, to run those what-if scenarios."