Optimize traffic on your factory premises with realistic operational simulations. Based on digital twins, we create transparency and controllability for all internal transport, connections to public road traffic, and smart yard management.
Greater agility and efficiency through operational simulation
A simulation of Yard and internal transport operations is more than just a digital model: it allows you to analyze different operating scenarios and optimize ongoing operations in real time. This makes it possible to change parts of the factory or redesign the entire factory premises
(e.g., all factory truck traffic).
Your advantages with a yard and internal transport operations simulation
- Save time and reduce costs
– Hidden cost factors in yard and internal transport operations are revealed using simulations
– Clear key performance indicators enable processes to be streamlined and processing times reduced
– Simulations reveal the effectiveness of improvements before investments are made - Understanding processes & creating planning reliability
– Identifying bottlenecks and conflicts in yard and internal transport operations before they occur in real operation
– Simulations show how changes to traffic routes or yard management affect traffic flow
– Simulations replace gut feelings with data-based facts for investment and design decisions - Smooth traffic flow & dynamic yard management
– Intelligent traffic control reduces waiting times and improves delivery and collection processes
– Simulations can be used to intelligently assign trucks to the right docks in order to reduce waiting times
– Smooth yard and internal transport operations are guaranteed even in challenging operating situations - Risk-free planning & transparency
– Digital twins make complex traffic flows visible
– Simulations make scenarios comparable and ideas assessable
– Relevant KPIs can be analyzed in real time for quick adjustments during ongoing operations
- Increase performance & achieve future security
– Basis for digital yard management and smart traffic control
– Increased sustainability through reduced waiting times, shorter distances, lower emissions
– Traffic flows can be adapted to dynamic fluctuations in demand or changed operating situations
With extensive experience, industry expertise and passion, we design and plan your logistics.
Global supply chains are in transition. We support the redesign and optimization of production and logistics.
Minimize risks, invest successfully, optimize productivity, increase delivery reliability. We digitize production planning. We offer material flow simulation for production and logistics.
SDZ services in yard and internal transport operations simulation
We combine many years of experience in logistics planning with excellent software expertise.
Our services:
- Easy-to-use simulations for company transport
- Processing and evaluation of highly complex quantities of data
- Simulation studies using modern simulation software
- Visualization and control of yard and internal transport operations from the gate to the truck gate
- Real-time simulation with digital twins
- Linking simulation and real control systems
- Connection to common interfaces – e.g., SAP
Mapping complex processes in detail
Yard and internal transport operations are a complex network of traffic routes, yard infrastructure, and organizational interfaces. With our operational simulation, all areas can be viewed separately and simultaneously integrated into the total factory premises layout:
- Yard management from the factory gate to transport hubs to truck gates
- Internal transport of materials and intermediate products
- Organization of pickups, recyclable materials, and return transports
- Consideration of automated and self-driving transport vehicles
- Integration of additional modes of transport in combined transport
Tanja Kernjak
Key-Account-Managerin
Phone: +49 160 99029606
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about yard and internal transport operations simulation:
Yard and internal transport operations encompasses all traffic within the factory premises, from the interfaces with public roads to the truck docks. All traffic routes, traffic junctions, and logistical infrastructure points are mapped. Section 1 (2) of the German Goods Transport Act (GüKG) provides a legal definition of works traffic.
Yes, automated and self-driving transport vehicles are an integral part of many operational simulations. They are increasingly being used in yard and internal transport operations.
Of course. We develop comprehensive traffic concepts: from analyzing the current situation and simulating various scenarios to planning implementation.
A simulation makes the dynamics of traffic flows on the factory premises visible and quantifiable. It shows where bottlenecks, waiting times, or traffic jams occur. This allows ideas and measures for optimizing factory traffic to be evaluated and optimized before these changes are implemented.
Typical questions are:
- How many trucks can be handled on the premises at the same time?
- Where do traffic jams, delays, or critical traffic junctions occur?
- What impact do new production lines, warehouses, or transport routes have on traffic?
- How does a change in dock allocation logic affect handling and waiting times?
- Which infrastructure measures have the greatest impact?
Simulation is particularly useful in the following cases:
- Plant expansions or redesign of plant premises
- Restructuring in logistics (e.g., new factory gates or truck gates, changes to traffic routes)
- Introduction of digital or automated yard management
- Bottlenecks or frequent traffic jams on or in front of the factory premises
- Investment decisions that require a thorough feasibility study
Information is required on, among other things:
- Traffic volumes (e.g., number of vehicles (trucks, vans, cars) per day/hour)
- Delivery and pickup times
- Layout plans and traffic routes
- Traffic rules and strategies for yard management (including gate and dock allocation)
- Operational processes at the factory gate
The results are presented in clear visualizations, key figures, and recommendations for action.
They include, for example:
- Average and maximum waiting times
- Utilization of docks, transportation hubs, and parking areas
- Traffic flow animations
- Evaluation of various scenarios and layout alternatives
The simulation provides an objective basis for decision-making. Instead of relying on assumptions and gut feelings, you can compare scenarios, quantify the effectiveness of investments, and demonstrate the ROI of planned measures.
Yes—the simulation can be connected to existing systems as a digital twin or used as a test environment for new control logic. This allows you to check how well planned IT or automation solutions would work in practice.
Simulation analyzes real processes based on a digital model in order to test different variants. Emulation goes one step further: it links the model with real control software (e.g., yard management or SAP EWM) to test its behavior under realistic conditions. Emulation is ideal for go-live preparations.