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Enterprise Modelling
One of Cyest Corporation’s core business centres on doing economic modelling and optimisation of a business; so that management can understand the drivers of value in their business and the impact that changes will have on operational and strategic planning.
Through this experience of building complex models and the need for a robust enterprise modelling environment, Cyest Corporation therefore embarked on developing a multi-dimensional, object-orientated modelling environment, which would satisfy all requirements for a robust enterprise modelling environment. This modelling platform is called Carbon.
What does Carbon do?
Built in C#, the platform is comprised of three components, namely:
- CarbonLogic – the engine which contains the objects, business logic and calculates the model
- Graphite – the user environment used to build templates and models
- UIP – the user interface environment that is configured to function on top of templates and models, and which contains all the input and reporting components
About the CarbonLogic modelling engine
The real power behind CarbonLogic lies not in its ability to simply create for example in a mining context entities, activities, resources and attributes but in its ability to interrelate all of them and allowing for precise details to be calculated.
An attribute such as the operating cost of a resource will vary according to what activity is consuming it and according to what production entity that activity is operating in. Using CarbonLogic these differences can be accurately calculated.
Similarly, the economics of a production entity can be determined by the activities that occur within it. Using CarbonLogic different scenarios comprising various activities can be tested in the same production entity to compare their differences. The output and cost of each activity will be affected by the resources they have available to them. By using CarbonLogic the cost and productivity for each activity can be calculated before a ‘real-life’ decision is made.
Moreover, the relationship between entities can be made to vary over time. CarbonLogic can calculate the efficiency of a team that has increased over the years and gained more experience, as well as calculate the wear and tear of a particular piece of equipment. (Wear and tear can also vary according to circumstances.)
Example: Generic Object Modelling – A Typical Mine Structure
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