GoldSim is a powerful and flexible platform for visualizing and numerically simulating nearly any kind of physical, financial or organizational system. In a sense, GoldSim is like a “visual spreadsheet” that allows you to visually create and manipulate data and equations. Unlike spreadsheets, however, GoldSim allows you to readily evaluate how systems evolve over time, and predict their future behaviour.

Most radioactive waste management problems are multi-disciplinary in nature. That is, the system being simulated actually consists of many subsystems, and the sub-models for each subsystem must typically be built by people from a wide variety of disciplines. Unfortunately, in many such cases, the model builders get caught up in the details of their sub-models, and lose sight of the “big picture”. The end result is typically separate sub-models, which are unnecessarily complex. Such an approach not only wastes resources, but is often too complex to be explained effectively, and too poorly integrated to represent the entire system in a cohesive and realistic way.

Because GoldSim is flexible and powerful enough to represent practically any aspect of your system, and because GoldSim provides unique capabilities for building your model in a hierarchical, modular manner, it is ideally suited to act as a system integrator.Infact, this was the original and primary use for which GoldSim was designed.

Reprinted with Permission from GoldSim Technology Group