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Global goods flows, SCM strategy, planning, risk and digital supply chains.

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AAS & digital product passport

AAS & digital product passport

An interactive 3D industrial robot with Asset Administration Shells: hotspots on the motor, gripper and controller open the respective administration shell as a card stack with submodels (Nameplate, Technical Data, Material & CO₂, Maintenance, Origin). The robot AAS visibly references the component AASs (composition); DPP role views for manufacturer, consumer and recycler show which fields the Digital Product Passport releases per role.

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Autonomous traffic in logistics systems (3D)

Autonomous traffic in logistics systems (3D)

A hub-to-hub route with autonomous Level 4 trucks: in the platoon the following truck saves clearly more fuel than the leader, and the savings grow as the gap shrinks. Roadworks, heavy rain or an exit into the city take the platoon to the edge of its ODD — there autonomy ends with a handover or a minimal risk manoeuvre, and the technical supervisor decides. Plus lead time with and without driving-time rules.

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Stock & service level

Stock & service level

A live simulation of the reorder point system: safety stock, reorder point and stockouts respond to service level, demand and lead time variability. The curve shows why the last percentage points of service level tie up disproportionate stock and capital.

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Blockchain traceability

Blockchain traceability

An interactive 3D hash chain along a coffee supply chain (farm → processing → warehouse → retail): click and tamper with blocks — the hash changes immediately and all subsequent blocks visibly break. Re-validating the chain shows the necessary recomputation of all subsequent blocks; a smart contract automatically triggers an animated payment token flow to the farm on valid goods receipt.

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Bullwhip effect

Bullwhip effect

A four-stage supply chain (customer → producer → tier 1 → tier 2) as a 3D scene with live-growing inventory columns, order/goods particles and a mini order graph per stage. A discrete weekly simulation shows how small demand fluctuations amplify upstream (Forrester/Burbidge effect) — adjustable via demand pattern, information delay, lot size, safety stock and an information-sharing switch with visible damping.

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Circular Economy — R-strategies

Circular Economy — R-strategies

An interactive 3D scene on the circular economy: a linear chain Take → Make → Use → Waste with a live-flowing material particle stream, in which all ten R-strategies (R0 Refuse to R9 Recover) return material as switchable loops — tight loops inside, wide ones outside. The balance shows live the primary-material input, landfill waste and circularity rate compared to the linear chain.

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Digital Twin level model

Digital Twin level model

An interactive 3D level model of Digital Model / Digital Shadow / Digital Twin: a physical robot arm with live state (temperature, speed, utilization) faces its holographic digital counterpart. Two data-flow arrows can each be switched to manual/automatic — the app names the resulting level live and, during simulated wear, shows that only the Digital Twin intervenes automatically in the closed loop.

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Bottleneck & throughput (3D)

Bottleneck & throughput (3D)

A 3D production line with five stations shows that the bottleneck alone sets throughput: speeding up other stations only grows inventory and lead time. Drum-buffer-rope ties material release to the bottleneck and lowers inventory at the same throughput.

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Forecasting playground

Forecasting playground

An interactive demand-forecasting lab: 52 weeks of demand across five trend types (horizontal, seasonal, sporadic, linear-seasonal, nonlinear) with adjustable noise. Four forecasting methods (naive, moving average, exponential and seasonal smoothing) forecast live over the test range; a MAPE/MAD ranking shows instantly which method fits which pattern.

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Hyperloop (3D)

A pod in a partial-vacuum tube, levitating magnetically and driven by a linear motor. Pressure, speed and blockage ratio control the drag live: at high pressure and with a large pod the air piles up ahead of the nose (Kantrowitz limit), and only vacuum and a slim pod make it efficient. In the bend the pod tilts, and if the radius is too tight the lateral acceleration is exceeded. Plus a comparison of energy and travel time with truck, freight rail and air freight.

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ICE network · Understanding delays

ICE network · Understanding delays

Explore 623 real ICE trips on a detailed Germany map. Simulate incidents, queue delays and dwell recovery, with timetable comparison and AI tutor control.

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Oil trade flows — Hormuz closed (3D)

Oil trade flows — Hormuz closed (3D)

The world's 60 largest crude oil flows on the globe, plus five straits as chokepoints. Close the Strait of Hormuz and let the days run: reroutes kick in, reserves shrink — and even countries with no Gulf link turn red.

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Order Penetration Point

Order Penetration Point

An interactive 3D decoupling-point explorer: a value chain as a conveyor belt with five stations, on which the OPP is moved as a glowing divider via slider or strategy pills (MTS/ATO/MTO/ETO). To the left the chain works forecast-driven with visible inventories (push), to the right order-driven with customer-individually colored products (pull). Live metrics show the trade-off between lead time, inventory cost and variant diversity; industry presets classify the strategies.

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Phantom traffic jam — jam waves out of nowhere (3D)

Phantom traffic jam — jam waves out of nowhere (3D)

22 cars on a ring road: above a critical density a brief braking turns into a jam wave that travels backwards. Space-time and fundamental diagrams show why tailgating lowers the flow and why a few ACC cars smooth out the waves.

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Strategic Fit

An interactive strategic-fit matrix per Chopra/Meindl: product markers (toothbrush, H&M, Zara, Shein, semiconductor) can be dragged across the spectrum of implied demand uncertainty and supply-chain responsiveness. The glowing zone of strategic fit shows live whether the chain fits; six drivers morph between efficient and responsive characteristics.

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Warehouse of the future (3D)

Warehouse of the future (3D)

A warehouse in four stages: manual, AMR fleet, goods-to-person with cube storage and conveyor, and humanoids in the gaps. The scene rebuilds visibly per stage; metrics show picks per hour, staff, investment, rebuild and flexibility. Humanoids take over the handovers conveyor → AMR and empty totes without a rebuild, but per movement they are slower than people and special systems.

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Goods-flow globe

Goods-flow globe

The global supply chain of a central warehouse in Stuttgart on a photo-realistic satellite Earth (Cesium): incoming supplier flows, 14 regional warehouses, ~335 local depots and animated particles along great-circle arcs. Two optional super hubs (Chicago/Zhengzhou) bundle the US/China flows.

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