Decisions are made from memory
Tonnage, cycle time and achievable output are still argued from experience and a spreadsheet. A wrong call stays invisible for months — until it is expensive.
Aluminium extrusion · Simulation software
Run the whole line before you build it.
Process feasibility, line throughput and full-line material flow — modelled before the first billet is heated.
Why this exists
An extrusion line is committed on paper, and corrected on the shop floor.
The bottleneck is rarely the press
Handling, cooling, stretching, sawing, ageing. A line runs at the speed of its slowest station, and that station is usually downstream of the one everybody is looking at.
Nobody can actually see the flow
Layout drawings are static. They do not show work piling up between stations, or the handling gap that only appears once the line is at rate.
The software
Eight modules, one data chain — from a single profile to the whole line and its budget.
Module 01
Process & capacity prediction
Start from the customer's profile drawing and target output. The profile is checked against the die opening it would actually have to pass through, a press and billet are proposed rather than assumed, and rival configurations sit side by side — fast enough to use inside the meeting, not after it.
Module 02 · Core
Cooling & quench simulation
Temperature does not stop mattering at the die. Follow the profile station by station as it cools along the run-out, see whether the quench is reached in time and can hold the rate the press is otherwise capable of, and find the cases where cooling — not tonnage — is the real speed limit.
Module 03
Line balance & bottleneck
The full chain from billet to packing, run at station-level takt inside the same 3D scene. The constraining station identifies itself — highlighted in red, capacity against demand — and output is stated the way plants argue about it: billet in, extruded, and finished tonnes.
Module 04
3D full-line visualisation
The customer's own profile travels the entire line in 3D at real cycle time — press, quench, saw, cooling bed, ageing, stacking, die-oven change included — on equipment models built from the real machines, fed by the same engine as Module 01 rather than a second set of estimates. What used to require a plant visit now fits on a laptop on the table between you.
Module 05
Press configuration & timing
Pump groups, oil routing and action timing for a hydraulic press — worked out from the loading arrangement rather than read off a fixed tonnage label. An existing schematic can be brought in and compared against the proposed configuration.
Module 06
Layout from an equipment list
Pick the equipment, set the order, and the line lays itself out in 3D — footprint, sequence and total installed power included. An existing quotation or technical document can be dropped in and read for the fields it already contains.
Module 07
Line cost & investment
Build the equipment and utility cost up from the same line configuration the simulation runs on — so the capacity conversation and the budget conversation finally happen against one set of numbers instead of two.
Module 08
Process knowledge on hand
Thirty-plus alloys, process and die references, design decisions and Q&A — organised, searchable, and available with no connection. It sits next to the model rather than in a folder somewhere.
Seen from the software
Not a rendering. The customer's own profile, on the bed, at real cycle time.
Where it is used
Built for the conversation, not the report.
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Pre-sales and equipment selection
Turn a vague enquiry into a defensible configuration while the customer is still in the room.
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New line planning and capacity check
Test the layout against the output target before steel is ordered.
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On-site demonstration
Runs on a laptop in a plant with no network, no install, no setup.
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Internal process training
New engineers see how the line behaves before they ever stand next to it.
Delivery
Made for a plant, not a data centre.
Fully offline
No connection, no server, no account. It opens and it runs — including in workshops where nothing else does.
Licensed per machine
Each installation is authorised for a specific machine. Straightforward to issue, straightforward to control.
Desktop and phone
A licensed Windows build for the desk, and an authorised mobile workbench for the plant floor and the airport lounge. Same models underneath.
Tested before it ships
Every build passes several hundred automated checks against known cases before it leaves — the software is expected to give the same answer in the plant that it gave in the office.
Model coefficients, calibration data and detailed methodology are deliberately not published on this site. They are discussed under NDA, against your own measured line data.
Bring a profile and an output target.
That is enough to run a first case together and show you what the tool actually does on your product.
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Send the form
A drawing helps, but a rough sketch or just the profile type works too.
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We run your case
Your profile, your target output — through the actual software, not a slide deck.
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Review it on a call
Usually within one working day. You keep the findings either way.