Patent ID: 8019583

Claim:
A system that facilitates simulation, comprising: a processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory having stored therein computer-executable instructions to implement the system, comprising: an external integration component configured to automatically receive data from one or more external applications and provide the received data to a simulation component, the received data describes monitored behavior of a manufacturing production system during execution; the simulation component configured to employ the received data to simulates at least one process component of a plurality of process components, the plurality of process components control the manufacturing production system; and a data share component configured to automatically share data from the simulation component with the one or more external applications to enable to the one or more external application to adjust at least one parameter of one or more of the plurality of process components to implement an improvement to the execution of the manufacturing production system, the shared data comprises at least one result produced from the simulated at least one process component.