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Friday’s Tip-Referencing spread sheet values based on product type
As promised last week we’ll be building up our simulation by adding a work center (WC) that will process the work items. Each work item has a unique operating time depending on the product type. Let’s...
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Friday’s Tip-Extending simulation by adding revenue
This week we will extent last week’s simulation by adding revenue which is unique to each of our four product types. Please add another column (called revenue) to your spread sheet (see last week’s...
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Friday’s Quick Tip- How to get your simulation to pause at a specified time
Have you ever experienced trying to get your simulation to go to a certain simulation time? Most people will set the simulation to run at full speed, look at the clock and try to stop the simulation at...
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Friday’s Quick Tip- How to Run Your Simulation for a Fixed Amount of Work
Sometimes people don’t want to run their simulations for a fixed amount of time, but rather for a fixed amount of work. Probably the easiest way to achieve this is to use a special feature in the Work...
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Friday Tip: Optimizing Run Speeds in SIMUL8
At SIMUL8 we pride ourselves on the extremely fast run times of our simulation models. One of the tools that helps you optimize your simulation run speeds even further is the Speed Analysis option for...
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Friday Tip: Using the Call Trace Stack Effectively
Complex models typically use a lot of Visual Logic. Best practices in programming dictate that it is best to write generic procedures that are called from different places rather than duplicating the...
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Friday Tip: Using Change Overs in your Simulation
Many processes contain change overs; a setup or cleaning time associated prior to running the next operation. SIMUL8 offers this functionality as part of the routing-in process in activities. The...
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Friday Tip: Using Resource Priorities
Lots of systems use multi-skilled resources. These resources can work on several tasks, but are likely to be better in some tasks than others. Please see the screenshot below for a simplified version...
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Friday’s Quick Tip- How to get your simulation to pause at a specified time
Have you ever experienced trying to get your simulation to go to a certain simulation time? Most people will set the simulation to run at full speed, look at the clock and try to stop the simulation at...
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Friday Tip: Showing Routing Arrows in your Simulation
At the start of your model development stage in your project you’ll be dropping, configuring and linking simulation objects in order to represent the system accurately. During this development stage...
View ArticleSimulation vs. Spreadsheets for Process Modeling
There are common reasons against using simulation as a method of process modeling and instead users favor spreadsheet modeling. There are a range of advantages of simulation and many ways to improve...
View ArticleFrom Cars to Calls – Expanding the Limits of Simulation
Every year SIMUL8 Corporation sponsors the Michigan Simulation User Group (MSUG) conference. This conference brings together professionals who work with simulation in order to promote its use as a...
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