Daedalus

A tile-based simulator for manufacturing plants, and an optimiser that designs layouts for them. Give it a site, a catalog of equipment, a production target and a capital budget — it decides what to buy, where to put it, how to connect it, then simulates the result to check the answer.

plan  ->  cells  ->  place  ->  select  ->  [polish]  ->  validate
  ^                                |
  +-- transport capex + demand  ---+
      shortfall feedback