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When Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading global IT services company, was tasked by the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) to implement the NHS Care Records Service (NHS CRS) for the UK’s North West and West Midlands cluster, it used WITNESS simulation as a key element in the design and management of key processes. The NHS CRS will give NHS professionals unprecedented 24-hour access to..

When a change in fuel emission standards reduced demand for its N14 truck engine, Cummins used WITNESS simulation to take £185,000 of annual savings out of the engine’s post-assembly operation. As important as it was to find these savings, however, Cummins made an even more valuable discovery through the simulation: the company learned that WITNESS could play a key role in its growing Six Sigma ..

Re-engineering of an environmental compliance process will provide the Department of Defence with a cost avoidance of $300,000 per year by eliminating the need for six full-time positions. The re-engineering was accomplished with the use of WITNESS. The software allowed engineers to analyse the current process and evaluate alternatives inexpensively in a minimal amount of time. The process invol..

The effectiveness of the criminal justice system has been a major concern of successive British governments. The current government is no exception; with only one fifth of reported crimes now resulting in their perpetrator being brought to justice, it has launched “Narrowing the Justice Gap”, a new framework for long-term improvement of the system. The ultimate aim, to bring 1.2 million offences..

Diageo is the UK’s leading drinks company; its widget technology is world leading. As well as packaging its world famous stout, the facilities at Runcorn and Belfast provide a service to the other major breweries. In total some 150+ different products are packaged, in several different pack formats requiring unique routing along the pack lines. With the resulting scheduling complexities and deli..

Exxon Chemicals in Europe is one of the world's largest and most successful petrochemical producers. Key to its European operations is an integrated system of three chemical plants, two in Britain and one in France, which feed large plastics plants in Belgium via the Exxon terminal in Antwerp.

Fluxys LNG is the operator of the LNG receiving terminal at Zeebrugge and is part of Fluxys which since the demerger in 2001, is an independent natural gas transport company. As a leader in the transport sector in the heart of Europe, Fluxys LNG plays a key role in the management of flows in the European gas market.

All businesses face the constant demand to reduce costs whilst maintaining or improving service levels. With increased regional sourcing, many factories are required to serve more customers and markets and to supply even more complex product portfolios and constantly increasing number of SKUs with shortened product life cycles. This represents a major learning process in order to cope with this ..