Helios
A risk-free environment to evaluate energy impacts before implementation.
Helios is an EYF solution and an additional FlexSim module that brings energy intelligence into planning and future scenario analysis. It enables companies to visualize and evaluate energy consumption, energy costs, carbon emissions, and demand behavior over time, providing a more complete understanding of the energy impacts associated with different strategies before implementation.
Energy consumption visibility
Analyze energy usage across equipment, resources, and system states to identify where energy is consumed and uncover hidden opportunities for efficiency improvements.
Sustainability and performance insights
Measure carbon emissions, compare energy strategies, and generate automated performance indicators that help balance efficiency, cost control, and sustainability objectives.
Smarter energy planning
Evaluate future demand, infrastructure requirements, supply alternatives, and energy-related costs across multiple scenarios to support safer and more predictable planning decisions.
EXPERIENCE THE FUTURE
Optimize energy flows across complex industrial systems.
Energy intelligence for better planning decisions
By analyzing energy consumption dynamics, Helios helps companies understand how different strategies affect energy demand, costs, emissions, and overall system performance. The solution enables teams to identify energy-intensive activities, anticipate demand peaks, evaluate infrastructure requirements, and compare scenarios to support more efficient and sustainable planning decisions.
Strategic applications for energy planning
- Energy consumption and demand analysis
- Energy infrastructure planning and capacity evaluation
- Carbon emissions assessment and sustainability initiatives
- Energy cost evaluation across multiple scenarios
- Demand peak identification and mitigation strategies
- Analysis of alternative energy sources and supply strategies
- Investment planning and future energy requirements validation
- Energy efficiency improvement and waste reduction initiatives
Dynamic energy source modelling
Helios enables companies to model energy sources with realistic and time-dependent behavior, supporting both stable and variable generation profiles. The solution can represent renewable and conventional energy sources while accounting for fluctuations in availability, pricing, and carbon intensity over time.
By incorporating real-world energy conditions into scenario analysis, organizations can evaluate supply alternatives, assess infrastructure requirements, and develop more resilient and sustainable energy strategies before implementation.
Technical differentiators for energy planning:
- Native FlexSim integration
- Carbon emissions estimation
- Renewable and conventional energy source modelling
- Energy cost analysis
- Demand peak identification
- Energy consumption mapping by system state
- Scenario and what-if analysis
- Sustainability analysis
- Automated energy performance dashboards
- Energy demand forecasting
- Infrastructure planning
- Energy-aware planning and optimization
Faq
Frequently asked questions and relevant information
Explore how Helios helps companies analyze energy consumption, evaluate costs and carbon emissions, and make smarter, data-driven planning decisions.
Helios provides visibility into energy consumption, power requirements, energy-related costs, demand peaks, and indirect carbon emissions. These metrics can be evaluated across different scenarios to support planning, efficiency, and sustainability initiatives.
Yes. Helios integrates directly into the FlexSim environment and can be applied to both new and existing models, adding energy analysis capabilities without requiring changes to the core simulation logic.
Yes. The solution can represent both renewable and conventional energy sources while accounting for changes in availability, pricing, and carbon intensity over time. This allows organizations to evaluate different supply strategies under realistic conditions.
By connecting energy consumption with system behavior, Helios helps identify energy-intensive activities, anticipate demand peaks, evaluate infrastructure requirements, compare alternative scenarios, and balance efficiency, cost, and sustainability objectives before decisions are implemented.