The Universal Automation Wiki (UAW) is an interactive simulation platform for designing, validating, and optimising real-world automation processes. Build dynamic workflow models with drag-and-drop timeline editing, resource management, and real-time validation against hundreds of industry-standard metrics.
Unlike traditional process documentation, UAW combines collaborative knowledge building with hands-on simulation capabilities, allowing users to not only explore automation processes but also test and validate them through our interactive playground.
Try the Simulation Playground | Explore the Wiki
Traditional automation planning relies on static diagrams and expert intuition, making it difficult to identify genuine bottlenecks, resource conflicts, or implementation challenges. Most process models can't be tested, validated, or optimised before expensive real-world implementation.
UAW bridges this gap with a simulation-first approach backed by collaborative knowledge building.
- Interactive Timeline Modelling: Design workflows with drag-and-drop task scheduling, resource allocation, and actor coordination.
- Real-Time Validation: Immediate feedback on structural integrity, resource conflicts, timing constraints, and economic feasibility.
- Multi-Persona Analysis: Evaluate simulations from different perspectives—hobbyist, researcher, investor, educator, field expert—with customised validation criteria.
- Knowledge Base Integration: Build upon a growing library of validated automation processes across industries.
- Interactive Playground: Web-based simulation editor with Monaco-powered JSON editing and visual timeline manipulation
- Real-Time Validation Engine: Validate against built-in metrics including resource flow analysis, timing constraints, economic calculations, and structural integrity checks
- Custom Metrics in the Validation Engine: Users can define their own custom metrics to validate their simulations and workflows
- Visual Timeline Editor: Drag-and-drop interface for editing task timing, resource allocation, and actor coordination
- Process Breakdown Engine: AI-powered hierarchical task decomposition using local LLMs for realistic workflow generation
- Simulation Library: Collection of validated automation processes sourced from wiki contributions
- Community-Driven Validation: Collaborative improvement of simulation models through community feedback
- Extensible Metrics System: Add custom validation rules and contribute to the growing metrics catalogue
UAW transforms abstract automation concepts into testable, interactive models:
- Process Design: Use our interactive playground to design automation workflows with timeline-based task scheduling
- Resource Management: Define actors, equipment, materials, and coordinate their interactions across the simulation timeline
- Real-Time Validation: Simulations are continuously validated against structural, economic, and operational metrics as you design
- Multi-Perspective Analysis: Evaluate your simulation from different viewpoints using persona-specific validation criteria
- Export & Iterate: Save validated models as JSON for implementation planning, sharing, or further development
- Knowledge Base Contribution: Share successful simulations back to the community wiki for others to learn from
Model production lines, quality control workflows, and equipment coordination with realistic timing constraints. Test resource allocation strategies and identify bottlenecks before physical implementation.
Design customer service processes, healthcare delivery workflows, and administrative automation with multi-actor coordination. Validate timing and resource requirements.
Create interactive process models for training programmes. Visual timeline simulations make complex automation concepts tangible and understandable.
Evaluate automation opportunities with economic metrics, ROI calculations, and operational feasibility analysis. Test scenarios before committing resources.
Prototype automation scenarios in a risk-free environment. Test different approaches and validate assumptions with quantitative metrics.
Model workflows with safety constraints and regulatory requirements. Validate processes against compliance metrics before implementation.
We welcome contributions to expand our simulation platform capabilities and knowledge base.
The most impactful way to contribute to our simulation capabilities:
- Identify a gap: Consider metrics like "equipment maintenance scheduling", "energy consumption analysis", or "worker safety compliance"
- Propose it: Open a New Metric Proposal using our issue template
- Collaborate: Discuss and refine the metric definition with the community
- Implement: Submit a Pull Request adding the metric to
metrics-catalogue.jsonand corresponding validation logic
- Fork the repository
- Create a feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/simulation-enhancement) - Implement your changes to the playground, validation engine, or simulation models
- Submit a Pull Request with a clear description
Share your automation expertise by contributing process documentation that feeds into our simulation library. Well-documented processes become the foundation for new simulation templates.
Check our Issues for specific tasks that need help!
All files in this project are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 unless explicitly stated otherwise. The full text of this licence can be found in the LICENSE file.
Enterprise Licensing: For organisations requiring more flexible licensing terms for commercial deployment, enterprise licences are available for purchase. Please contact us at contact@universalautomation.wiki to discuss enterprise licensing options that best suit your requirements.
This licensing approach ensures the core platform remains open-source and community-driven whilst providing options for commercial organisations seeking to integrate UAW capabilities into proprietary systems.
Get Started: Try the Simulation Playground
Explore: Browse the Wiki
Questions: contact@universalautomation.wiki | jamie@jmatthews.uk
Contribute: GitHub Issues | Metric Proposals
Thank you for your interest in the Universal Automation Wiki! Join us in building the future of interactive automation simulation.