Rachid Kolfin is working as simulation consultant at TALUMIS since May 2008. Rachid finished the study ‘Technische Bedrijfskunde’ with specialty Logistics at University Twente in 2007. After his study he worked as a logistic advisor at Academic Medical Centrum.

Rachid was using simulation to analyze and optimize the logistics of the patients. He was doing this in cooperation with University Amsterdam and University Twente. Reducing waittime was his main goal!

In March 2008, Esther Bennett started working at Talumis. In 2001 she graduated from the Technical University of Delft as a mechanical engineer with a specialization in Materials Handling Technology. After her graduation she worked at Royal Haskoning for almost 7 years. She mainly made conceptual designs and was part of management teams during the realization of  projects for different clients in the production industry.

Last year a new forum has been opened for the users of Flexsim Simulation Software. The forum is very successful and has many active users. In totall there are already more then 300 members.

The forum is the ideal way to get in touch with the developers of Flexsim and to help each other.

Click here for the Flexsim forum

Since January Martijn van Oostenbrugge is working at Talumis. In 2001 Martijn has graduated at the section Systems Engineering of the Technical University Eindhoven (Mechanical Engineering Department). He used simulation to determine the required operators for the production of the DS45 yacht. In 2004 Martijn completed the IPPS (Intelligent Products and Production Systems) post-graduate program at the same section in the field of optimization. In 2005 Martijn started as a Layout Engineer at CSi Industries. He frequently used Flexsim to analyse material handling systems. At Talumis Martijn starts working as a simulation consultant.

TALUMIS generated a lot of interest for their simulation solutions at the ICT & Logistiek/Logistica fair in Utrecht. The public was pleasantly surprised to see the many capabilities of the standard Flexsim simulation software. Also the Talumis Warehouse Toolkit, which will be released in the beginning of 2007, drew a lot of attention as a major cost saving tool. This fair held in the home-city of TALUMIS, was also a good opportunity to meet with existing clients and show other new developments for the Flexsim simulation platform; like the port library and the fluid library.

TALUMIS has extended their office space. Besides extra workspace it includes a new course-room. At the basic training in October this course-room has been used for the first time. Having an own course-room gives more flexibility in organizing training and we are planning to intensify our training program.

At the Logintern fair in Nuremberg the Middle European distributors of Flexsim shared a booth. Flexsim Germany organized the fair and invited the other distributors from Holland, Austria and Switzerland. TALUMIS was represented by Steven Hamoen. The many visitors to the booth were impressed by the Flexsim Software, but also by the fact that Flexsim offers a distributors network throughout europe that is continuously growing.

Marion Pilgrim is working at TALUMIS since May. In 2003 Marion has graduated at the Technical University in Delft, specialization Civil Engineering. During her graduation study, she used simulation to investigate the effects of combining goods to space productivity of a harbor. The results of this simulation study are part of her graduation report “Chain integration as alternative for physical expansion of a harbor”. After her graduation, Marion started working as planner at P&O Ports in Antwerp. At TALUMIS Marion starts working as simulation consultant.