What is FlexTerm FlexSim Container Terminals (FlexTerm) is a FlexSim library specifically designed for simulating container terminal operations.  A sample model. 聽聽聽 PurposesSimulation models built in FlexTerm can be used to improve many facets of a container terminal operation. In general, FlexSim helps in your goals to: - Increase throughput - Improve equipment utilization - Reduce waiting time and queue sizes - Reduce bottlenecks - Balance workload by allocating resources efficiently - Study alternate investment ideas - Demonstrate new tool design capabilities - Train operators in overall system behavior and job-related performance  Another sample model. More specifically, with FlexTerm you can analyze: - Yard stacking and segregation strategies - Yard layout and dispatching - Gate logistics and capacity - Quay crane allocation - Yard equipment allocation - Hostler gang allocation - Ship scheduling - Berth assignment - Traffic constraints FlexTerm helps you find ways to move more containers more efficiently and at less cost. The power and beauty of FlexTerm is that ideas for improving a process can be simulated, tested, and justified prior to implementing them in the actual system. The results of each simulation can be analyzed graphically through 3D animation,聽statistical reports and graphs, which are excellent for communicating a model's purpose and results to technical and nontechnical audiences. Getting Results Using FlexTerm to study a process, end-users can confidently communicate their assumptions, findings, conclusions, and future actions to colleagues, bosses, or clients about how to improve container flow specifically and terminal operations generally. In addition to moving more containers more efficiently and at lower cost, organizations and individuals using simulation gain a greater insight into the system being studied, which helps managers to predict and control a terminal鈥檚 operations with greater reliability in the future. Ease of Use FlexTerm is the first commercially available "off-the-shelf" simulation tool for container terminals. Through its simple drag-drop model-building methodology and its integrated 3D environment, FlexTerm concentrates on making model-building easy, fast and intuitive. Statistical Outputs  Sample statistical output. FlexTerm provides real-time statistics collection of many key performance measures, including: - Berth productivity - Ship queueing and wait times - Crane utilization - Truck queueing and wait times - Yard content and container dwell times - Yard equipment utilization - Gate throughput and turn times Sample Models Once you have installed FlexTerm, you can download and view sample models [here](http://www.flexsim.com/products/ct/samples/).