The Sim Blog

A Pseudorandom Discussion on Engineering Simulation

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Joe Hugan 

JoeHugan

I’ve been in the simulation industry since 1984.  In the past I have used Witness, GPSS, QUEST, and AutoMod for traditional discrete event simulation.  Currently, I am focused on PLC emulation using V-Sim to validate ladder logic prior to commissioning control systems.  I have been a simulation user, sold simulation software, managed software development teams, and launched two separate software products (QUEST and V-Sim).  I have been personally involved in over 400 simulation projects that include the automotive, warehousing, consumer goods, military, aerospace, and transportation industries.   I have a Bachelors in Manufacturing Systems Engineering and an MBA in Marketing.

Most of you may know me from the Winter Simulation Conference.  I was on the committee this year as the Business Chair and I am the General Chair for 2010 when the conference will be in Baltimore.

10 Comments »

  Jack P.C. Kleijnen wrote @ January 25, 2008 at 4:25 am

Great initiative!

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  Vikram Ramnath wrote @ January 25, 2008 at 7:52 am

To err is human
To simulate divine

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  arenasimulasi wrote @ January 26, 2008 at 11:52 am

Hope you can share more about warehousing & logistics simulation. ;)

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  joehugan wrote @ January 26, 2008 at 7:18 pm

thanks for stopping by…. I have done a lot of warehousing and logistics modeling. I am sure it will come up often in the conversations.

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  Roberto Revetria wrote @ January 28, 2008 at 4:24 am

A great initiative!
Sincerely
RR

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  Jeffrey Hebert wrote @ January 28, 2008 at 7:48 am

Great site. Thanks for the start of a Sim Blog. I have played with V-Sim some. I mainly do Emulation with PLC in the baggae world for airports. We currently use PIC’S at the moment. When ask what i do, Some people think i do Airplane Simulatior. I have been using PICS for 5 years now.

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  Paul Nutter wrote @ January 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Looks great Joe!!!!

Would you have any inerest in being involved with the SME Simulation Technical Group, or maybe giving a webinar?
Paul

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  joehugan wrote @ January 28, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Sure – email me or give me a call. Jason has the info if you can’t find my details.

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  Bob Sharak wrote @ February 7, 2008 at 6:04 am

First let me say, great to see a blog like this. I work for a regional economic development organization that is helping develop the M&S industry in the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia.

One of our great challenges is that outside of certain industries, our main one here is the military, M&S is relatively unknown and unused. I’m not talking spreadsheets and what ifs – but real sims with strong visualizations.

What I would like to see in future posts is discussion of the many uses of M&S – written for the M&S user and not the developer. Maybe that needs to be a different blog but that’s something sorely lacking for this industry to take off the way it could. I’d like something to direct people to when they ask – “what’s M&S.”

I’ve developed an M&S user group in google for things M&S in our region. Anyone interested can e-mail me for access – it’s not a public forum.

Bob

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  joehugan wrote @ February 7, 2008 at 8:15 am

Thanks for the feedback. I have done a number of very strong visual models in the past. I’ll find some time to discuss them generically in future posts.

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