Due the nature of the cream cheese manufacturing process, Flexsim’s typical modeling approach of using discrete, individual items flowing through the model was not appropriate. Instead, a new library of objects that Flexsim was developing was used. These objects were designed to handle fluid flow.
 

These new fluid objects were used to simulate the various tanks, mixers, and pipes in the cream cheese manufacturing process. There were no operators modeled, as they were not considered potential bottlenecks. Other simplifying assumptions were made, such as modeling a series of small tanks with a single, larger tank.This allowed the manufacturer to understand how raw material arrivals affected the overall capacity of the model, even if not all products were being modeled. 
 
Data* for the model was entered using an Excel spreadsheet that could be easily changed by the model user. At the end of a model run, data from the model could be exported to an Excel spreadsheet that could be used for analysis. This data included information about what times objects in the model changed state (empty, full, etc.) and what the throughput of objects in the model was at various times throughout the model run.