Lanner Group Ltd Explained

Lanner Group Ltd
Type:Private Limited company
Foundation:1996 (following a management buyout from AT&T Istel)
Location:Birmingham, United Kingdom
Key People:[1]
Homepage:www.lanner.com

Lanner Group Ltd is a software company specialising in simulation software such as discrete event simulation and predictive simulation, headquartered in Birmingham, UK. The business develops, markets and supports business process simulation and optimisation systems.[2] [3] The company has subsidiaries in the US, China, France and Germany and a distributor network selling the company's products in 20 different countries.[4] Lanner Group was formed following a Management Buyout of AT&T Istel, a spin-off from the operational research department of British Leyland where, in 1978, the world's first visual interactive simulation tool was developed.[5] Lanner Group services automotive, aviation, criminal justice, defence and aerospace, financial services and contact centres, food and beverage, health, logistics and supply chain, manufacturing, nuclear, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, and consumer health industries.[6]

Company history

Lanner Group formed in 1996 after completing a Management Buyout from AT&T Istel; the company was initially named SEE WHY SOLUTIONS and was incorporated in 1995. Lanner Group's previous owner, AT&T Istel, formerly known as ISTEL, was initially called BL Systems, and was a spin out formed in 1979 following a Merger of all the computer departments under the then British Leyland umbrella. BL System's SEE WHY tool, programmed in Fortran 77[7] and launched in 1980, was the world's first commercially available visual interactive simulation package and the precursor to Lanner Group's current core software product WITNESS.[8] [9] WITNESS was the first of the industrial strength 4GL simulators.[10] The WITNESS system was launched on IBM PC in 1986 and has been revised frequently since.[11] [12] The latest version of Lanner's Witness was released in summer 2017.[13] [14]

The applications of the FORTRAN 77 / WITNESS interface have been subject to further academic Research and Development.[15] [16] Since 1985 the company has supported its simulation software academic program. Over 100 universities worldwide have been involved since the program began.[17]

Lanner Group continued to develop the WITNESS platform further in parallel to developing its mainstay product of the same name, and since 2002 has introduced new systems providing niche simulation packages for police and healthcare organisations called PRISM and PX-Sim respectively. In 2006 the company unveiled a Java based simulation engine called L-SIM which is embedded in Business Process Management (BPM) solutions software.[18] In May the same year, a technology partnership with BPM solution provider IDS Scheer was announced.[19] The L-SIM product is now the simulation engine of IDS Scheer's ARIS Business Simulator.[20] The company's WITNESS platform technology is therefore embedded into current Oracle, SAP, and IBM BPA products.[21]

From 1996 to 2010 the company's main investor was private equity company 3i. On 18 March 2010 Lanner Group announced that it had secured a £3 million new investment deal with NVM Private Equity replacing 3i.[22] 3i continues to retain an interest in Lanner Group as a small minority investor.

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  1. http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk/ Companies House Register WebCheck
  2. http://www.lanner.com/en/about-us.cfm Lanner Group Company History Page
  3. Web site: West Midlands ICT Case studies 2009 . 18 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100725102844/http://www.wmictcluster.org/events/2009-case-studies/lanner-group . 25 July 2010 . dead .
  4. Web site: 3i Investment portfolio . 9 September 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090818040804/http://www.3i.com/portfolio/companies/lanner-group.html . 18 August 2009 . dead .
  5. Hollocks . BW. Forty years of discrete-event simulation-a personal reflection. Journal of the Operational Research Society . 7. 2006. 12. 1383–1399 . 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602128. 45610706.
  6. Web site: Lanner Group Limited . https://web.archive.org/web/20121006123622/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=731838 . dead . 6 October 2012 . Bloomberg Businessweek. company overview . 23 October 2010.
  7. Web site: Programming Language Benchmarks . 29 January 2008 . Allen MJ. 23 October 2010.
  8. Book: Gilman AR, Billingham C . Proceedings of the 21st conference on Winter simulation - WSC '89 . A tutorial on SEE WHY and WITNESS . 1989. 192–200. New York, NY. Association for Computing Machinery. 10.1145/76738.76761. 0911801588. 15064840 . http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.4/4390.
  9. Book: Diamond R, Harrell CR, Henriksen JO, Nordgren WB, Pegden CD, Rohrer MW, Waller AP, Law AM . Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference . The current and future status of simulation software (Panel) . 2. 2002. 1633–1640. Winter Simulation Conference. 10.1109/WSC.2002.1166445. 0-7803-7614-5. 889407.
  10. Web site: BPMN and simulation . Enstone LR, Clark MF . April 2006 . 23 October 2010 .
  11. Web site: Modelling breakdown durations in simulation models of engine assembly lines, PhD thesis . Lanting Lu . May 2009 . School of Mathematics, University of Southampton . 23 October 2010.
  12. Web site: Lanner's Witness simulation software gets new licence manager . Staff Reporter . 26 August 2010 . Works Management News . 23 October 2010.
  13. Web site: WITNESS Simulation Modeling Software | Lanner.
  14. Web site: Latest Edition of WITNESS Software Released: Allows Any Business to Optimize Process Performance with Simulation Software – Fast . Brothersoft News. 12 November 2010 . brothersoft.com . 25 January 2011.
  15. ((Rotab Khana MR)), Harlock SC, Leaf GA . Computer simulation of production systems for woven fabric manufacture. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 37. 4. 1 December 1999. 745–756. 10.1016/s0360-8352(00)00009-7.
  16. Goyal SK, Mehta K, Kodali R, Deshmukh SG . Simulation for analysis of scheduling rules for a flexible manufacturing system. Integrated Manufacturing Systems. 6. 5. 1995. 21–26. 10.1108/09576069510093442.
  17. Web site: Simulation modeling software company Lanner Group partner Ingram school of engineering . 5 July 2010 . Materials Handling World Magazine . 23 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719233939/http://www.mhwmagazine.co.uk/news-item.asp?id=6981 . 19 July 2011 . dead .
  18. Book: Waller AP, Clark MF, Enstone LR . Proceedings of the 2006 Winter Simulation Conference . L-SIM : Simulating BPMN Diagrams with a Purpose Built Engine . 2006 . 591–597 . Winter Simulation Conference . 1-4244-0500-9. 10.1109/WSC.2006.323134 . 28426932 .
  19. Web site: IDS Scheer and Lanner announce partnership for Java based business process simulation . IDS-Sheer.com . 21 November 2010 . https://archive.today/20130126051318/http://www.ids-scheer.com/en/News/IDS_Scheer_and_Lanner_announce_partnership_for_Java_based_business_process_simulation/1680.html?referer=23380 . 26 January 2013 . dead .
  20. Web site: Bob Violino . BPM: 3 Vendors To Watch . CIO Zone . 23 October 2010 . https://archive.today/20130119041453/http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Management/BPM-3-Vendors-To-Watch.html . 19 January 2013 . dead .
  21. Web site: Lanner Group company website 'Business Partners' page . 23 October 2010.
  22. Web site: Lanner Group secures new funding with NVM to execute growth plans . Brian Tinham . Works Management news . 22 March 2010 . 23 October 2010.

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