Wörner, M.Ertl, T.Silvia Miksch and Giuseppe Santucci2014-01-272014-01-272011978-3-905673-82-1http://dx.doi.org/10.2312/PE/EuroVAST/EuroVA11/029-032Today's manufacturing companies are faced with requests for highly customer-specific products that come in numerous variants but small numbers of units per variant. Therefore, their manufacturing processes need to be flexible and versatile. This opens up opportunities for real-time process planning, yet there is insufficient tool support for process planning that is not done days or weeks in advance. As a result, there is little incentive to collect process data on site. We describe a visual analysis tool that uses advanced manufacturing simulation to evaluate and optimize flexible manufacturing processes.Categories and Subject Descriptors (according to ACM CCS): I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: Applications; I.6.6 [Simulation and Modeling]: Simulation Output Analysis