Technical Corner
Know the Value of Non-Value Added
A Cautionary tale about implementing lean... So you just completed your “Lean Manufacturing” class and you have management’s commitment to implement lean practices within your organization. The term “Non-value-added” is…
Selecting Resources Based on a Label Value
This week, we will look at selecting resources based on a label value. We will use a hospital as an example. We are going to set up our simulation to…
Label-based Batching and Collecting
Using batching, we are able to split a single work item in our simulation into two or more items, which each share the same label attributes as the original work…
Quickly Display Variables on Screen with Visual Data
Add onscreen results or display your process parameters while your simulation is running. In the previous Friday Tip we looked at how to create a ‘Global Variable’ as a way…
Set Common Process Times and Global Variables
Use a single value to set the process time for multiple activities. You have a simulation with lots of activities that all have the same process time. If you need to…