DESIM (Design Simulator) User's Manual: A Procedural Guide for Designing and Simulating Hardwood Sawmill Systems

摘要

DESIM (DEsign SIMulator), a computerized system for designing and simulating the operation of hardwood sawmills, can be used to design new mills or to plan the modification of existing mills. It can handle complex situations and a wide variety of different products. And, once a mill has been designed and simulated, the design can easily be changed and simulated again to investigate different possibilities. The DESIM system consists of three computer programs and two support data files. The first program provides data sheets for recording the required sawmill information. The second program provides an interactive question and answer procedure for getting the information from the data sheets into a sawmill data file. And, the third program uses this data file to realistically simulate the operation of the proposed sawmill.