Friday Tips

Friday’s Tip – Annotations

Annotations are a new feature in SIMUL8 2011 and they let you display call out messages as your simulation runs. They are great for explaining what is happening in your…

Friday’s Tip – Identifying links with travel times

Processes will often contain parts of the system that require items to move from one place to another. In SIMUL8 you can mimic the amount of time that is associated…

Friday’s Tip – Keeping clients’ files confidential

One of the problems that you will encounter in any development project is version management. A quick solution to this is to use a sensible naming convention for all different…

Friday’s tip – Build simulations faster using the paddle

Developing a simulation in SIMUL8 is like developing a process map in Visio. You simply drag objects onto your simulation window and connect them with links. Although this is already…

Friday’s Tip – Connect resources to work centers quickly

Setting up resources in SIMUL8 is probably one of the last things to when building a simulation model. Generally first, you will get the flow of your work items through…