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Presentations
 Keynote:
LTC Fred Rawcliff and Tommy J. Smith
The United States Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) is a major Army command
and a component of the United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). FORSCOM
trains, mobilizes, deploys, sustains, transforms, and reconstitutes conventional
forces, providing relevant and ready land power to combatant commander’s
world wide in defense of the nation both at home and abroad. Combining
more than 2,200 civilians with 740,000 soldiers from the Active Army,
Army Reserve and the Army National Guard, FORSCOM provides combat-ready
units and soldiers to regional combatant commanders worldwide for operations
such as theater engagement, peacekeeping, combating terrorism, ensuring
those forces are ready to fight and win on today's complex battlefield.
The FORSCOM mantra is “Trained and Ready Soldiers”. Army
Force Generation (ARFORGEN) is the force management process that leverages
modular unit designs and operational cycles to provide a sustained deployment
capability of operationally ready units. ARFORGEN will synchronize people,
equipment, training, resources and formations over time to satisfy the
demand for Army conventional forces. Current and future mission requirements
are changing the demand on the Army structure and require FORSCOM to
enhance the decision support capability associated with the ARFORGEN
process. The ability to predict and synchronize a myriad of events in
rotational paths, training requirements, equipment and funding is key
to maintaining a sustainable, modular force structure. The presentation
will discuss the current ARFORGEN process and depict the problem for
which a COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) based technology decision support
approach is being used as the solution.
Raul
Walker, Pfizer
Over the last decade the use of portfolio and process modeling/simulation
has become an important part of the decision making process at Pfizer
Central Research Division. Over this time cultural awareness and acceptance
has changed dramatically in light of a string of successful collaborative
work between Pfizer and ProModel. This presentation:•Reviews
the history of this work, •Examines •how success and failure
promote cultural change•the value of results versus the journey•Details
Pfizer’s collaboration with ProModel•teamwork•partnership•Discusses
ROI•Explores where we go from here
Using
Simulation for Atlanta Lobby Design
Jennifer Meucci, Delta Air Lines
Utilizing the appropriate number of resources and controlling check-in
queues in an airport lobby is essential from a customer service perspective.
It is important to know resource needs for both staffing and real estate
requirements.
ProModel ServiceModel simulation assists Delta Air Lines in determining
the optimal number of lobby check-in resources needed at the peak of
a day based on corporate standards for customer service parameters, quantifies
the average and max wait times for each queue, and quantifies the maximum
queue size for each channel. As flight schedules or load factors change
or channel penetrations shift, new resource requirements can easily be
determined simply by altering model inputs.
Simulation
Modeling for Space Exploration
David A. Tucker, United Space Alliance, LLC
In 2010 America’s Space Shuttle fleet is due to retire from service.
In 2005 Dr. Michael Griffin, NASA’s Administrator, challenged American
aerospace companies to develop viable concepts for the next generation
of US space exploration. United Space Alliance utilized ProModel to develop
several such concepts through discrete event simulation modeling. During
this presentation a generic simulation model illustrating space exploration
concepts will be shown. Such models are useful for predicting space flight
manifest issues, hardware inventories, process cycle times and other
mission information. United Space Alliance, LLC is the Prime Contractor
to NASA for the Space Shuttle Flight Operations Contract and is located
at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and Johnson Space Center in Texas.
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