Case Study: Focus Group helps a steel pipe manufacturer boost output with AnyLogic

Steel Pipe Manufacturing Scheduling with Simulation Software

Focus Group Company worked with a major Eastern European steel pipe manufacturer that was struggling with spreadsheet-based scheduling, hidden bottlenecks, poor routing decisions, and uncoordinated production stages. To improve scheduling and identify available capacity, the company turned to AnyLogic and Focus Group’s simulation-based decision support expertise.

Using AnyLogic, Focus Group Company built a discrete-event manufacturing simulation model with material handling logic and Excel-based data input to test schedules, define routing rules, and suggest optimized weekly plans. The result was a risk-free way to validate orders, reduce equipment changeovers, improve utilization, and cut schedule adjustment time from three hours to three minutes, while also forecasting 678 tons of additional output and $813 thousand in weekly revenue.

Focus Group Company