by Peter Loader | Sep 4, 2025 | Resource Calculator, Software
PL Insights has launched its ResCalc software, a resource calculator tool developed in Excel without the use of macros or Visual Basic. ResCalc calculates the amount of resource required to service demand given the process and activities undertaken for each unit of...
by Peter Loader | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorised
Recent attendance at a simulation user group conference led me to think about how a Digital Twin for Police might work. A digital twin can be thought of as a virtual model of a real life process connected by a 2-way data flow. Its purpose is to enable proposed...
by Peter Loader | Mar 28, 2025 | Erlang, Software
Three ErlangCalc demonstration videos have been published on the Insights with Acumen YouTube channel. These showcase our newly released ErlangCalc software, the first in a series of tools designed to support Productive and Effective Demand Management. Links to the...
by Peter Loader | Jan 21, 2025 | Policing
“Improvements made to DBS check delays” is the headline to a BBC article that I read recently. The article goes on say that the backlog in Sussex Police has been reduced from 13,000 to 9,600 with the average time to process applications reducing from 92...
by Peter Loader | May 15, 2024 | National Statistics
From January 2024 the Office of National Statistics changed how it calculated expected deaths. This impacts on reporting of excess deaths statistics and I thought it would be interesting to understand the impact and assess the new method. One interesting effect is...
