• A flowsheet visualizes the plant layout. It contains raw material sources, units, pipes, buffer and storage tanks, waste sinks and more.
  
• Materials, energy, and resources describe the raw materials and auxiliaries which are available in the virtual plant.

• Recipes define the workflow of the production processes, be it batch, continuous or fed-batch steps. Operations can be scheduled as serial, parallel or in alternative branches.
  
• An order list contains volumes and sequences of production orders. They are suited for single product plants or multi-product plants.

• Layouts can be arranged into sublayouts to meet the design of even highly complex plants.
• Pools define classes of similar units. INOSIM Expert Edition dynamically selects units from a pool while executing a master recipe.
• Lines are linkages of units where products are manufactured in defined consecution.
• Pipings are connecting units, organizing the material transfers between them.
• Resources are auxiliaries which are necessary to execute operations (e.g., staff, or energy).
• Shift calendars control availabilities of units and resources by working days and holidays.

Recipes define the workflow within the production units. INO­SIM Expert Edition provides material flow operations as well as a model library for common unit operations. Each model within the library contains:

• A pre-defined recipe structure
• Various models to describe mass and energy balances of the unit operation

Some elements of the model library are:

• Conversion: Fermentation, chemical reaction
• Phase separation: Filtration, centrifugation
• Purification: Extraction, ad-/desorption, chromatography, crystallization
• Miscellaneous: Add, heat/cool, split, evaporate, CIP/SIP, batch distillation

By its integrated Visual Basic Editor, INO­SIM Expert Edition provides a user-friendly, flexible programming environment which enables you to adjust and extend the behavior of the simulation. The editor´s programming language is compatible to Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA).

• Customize existing models from the INO­SIM Expert Edition model library due to your own purposes.
• Create your own, user-defined models, for example for special material data of your product.
• Create your own parameters for statistical analysis, for example maintenance and failures.

Elaborate user documentation, quick support, and tailor-made trainings by experienced engineers will make it easy for you to benefit from INO­SIM Expert Edition VBA programming.