Technical Corner
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…
Shortcut Keys for writing Visual Logic
This SIMUL8 Tip is quick, but can save you a lot of time! SIMUL8 has many keyboard shortcuts for a variety of different controls. The collection below are all shortcuts…
Difference between Poisson and Exponential Distributions for Arrivals
There is occasional confusion between Poisson and Exponential distributions. Lets try to clarify: Assuming you are working in minutes (but same applies to other time units), consider what's often called…
Interrupt Resources
This week our SIMUL8 Tip is about how you can interrupt resources in your simulation. This allows you to force a resource to stop its current activity and start work…
Using “Do Not Display Dialogs” to make your simulation more user-friendly
We've talked about creating dialogs and menus to make your simulations easy to use for end users. This week, we're going to look at using an additional Visual Logic command to add…