Global Plant Simulation Challenge Task 1 Winner Announcement

Siemens Digital Industries Software announces that Wichai Khamphirawut has won the first Plant Simulation Challenge for students. Wichai has already received the Microsoft Surface Go3 and his winner badge.

How Award Works

In this competition for students of all educational branches, the participants submit their solution for the task.

A jury from Siemens analyzes each submitted solution individually, checking correctness of the solution, creativity, use of object orientation, hierarchy and tools such as Experiment Manager and others. The jury then awards up to 100 points and selects the best solutions and awards a prize.

The jury reviewed submissions of numerous participants. Overall, over 80% of all submitted solutions were correct. Submissions came in from the following countries and more: China, Hungary, Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, India, Kazakhstan, Norway, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

After evaluation of the submitted solutions, Plant Simulation Badges were sent to all successful participants.

First prize winner Wichai Khamphirawut won a new Microsoft Surface Go 3, 10-in. 2-in-1 Tablet (Intel Pentium Gold, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, Windows 11 Home S) Platin. Wichai lives in Bangkok, Thailand.

The winner of the second prize is Zoltán Vén, of Budapest, Hungary. Zoltán received a Bluetooth wireless speaker and a digital badge acknowledging him as a Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Champion.

The third price went to Jingjie Wang, from China.

The Challenges

Simulate and analyze a battery charging station for a highway station.

As the cars do not arrive at equal intervals, but in a statistically distributed intervals, there is a challenge. In addition, the length of the car and the available length of the waiting line had to be considered.

First, the average waiting times in front of the charging stations had to be calculated for a given number of batteries charging stations at the gas station. In addition, the maximum number of cars to be handled per hour on average had to be found.

Then a proposal had be developed for the optimal number of automobile charging stations for the operator of the battery charging station. An important aspect to be considered was the contribution margin per charging process for the operator of the battery charging stations.

About the Badges

The Winner Badges are certified, this means that earners have demonstrated the ability to model, simulate, analyze, visualize and optimize production systems, logistics, and processes with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. Earners can show champion level approaches to solve given tasks with Plant Simulation challenges hosted by the Siemens Innovation Ecosystem. Earning criteria is first, second and third place winner based on the following criteria: If the solution solves the problem posed, innovation and creativity, incorporation of engineering principles, model justification, 3D modeling capabilities, and additional evaluations and ideas beyond the general question.

Plant Simulation Challenge Participant Badge earners are able to show their approaches to solve given tasks with Plant Simulation challenges hosted by the Siemens Innovation Ecosystem.

What’s Next?

If interested in participating in a future Plant Simulation challenge, download the Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Student version here for free.

Participate in the next Tecnomatix Plant Simulation Challenge here.

To start working with Plant Simulation, there is a series of seven tutorials includes exercises and model files here.

A solution for the Plant Simulation Challenge is available on YouTube. 

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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