Concepts and Application of SIMPLE++

SIMPLE++ is a fully object-oriented simulation tool, which was first designed and implemented at the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing Engeneering and Automation as SIMPLEmac and reimplemented based on C++ in 1992. SIMPLE++ is a standard software tool for object-oriented, graphical and integrated modelling, simulation and animation. Additional to the tool there are interfaces to database systems, for interprocess communication and modules for optimisation using Genetic Algorithms. The concepts and current development in applications of this simulation systems are described in this article.