Hey @allenxu,
IF you're looking for a process simulator (where you shove in different load factors and try to see how the process performs - like the simulators of a McDonalds layout to see which creates the fewest backlogs), I'd probably look to a dedicated solution that can do this dynamically. I've been on projects before where a package called VenSim was used (years ago - http://vensim.com/), and I've seen this done in Signavio, but not sure of the market and players in process sim right now.
Alteryx would probably be able to do a static-state version of this - but it's not engineered to do the things that the large scale process simulators do naturally (like different load distributions; mean-time to failure on each step; max queue wait time before abandonment etc). These capabilities are important for large-scale industrial processes, because you end up with non-linear behaviours that can only be seen in dynamic simulation.
To be clear - not trashing Alteryx, it's an incredible data prep tool - but it's not built to be a process simulator so you'd miss many of the core capabilities you'd need.
Cheers
Sean
