Technical Corner

SIMUL8 Tip – Demonstrate your simulations with Macros

Have you ever wanted to demonstrate your simulation during a presentation but don’t want to be hunched over your laptop? In SIMUL8 you can use a Macro to record the…

SIMUL8 Tip – Setting Up Arrival Times and Additional Label Values from a CSV File

This feature reads the exact times Work Items should be generated at a Start Point from a CSV file. It can also assign label values to the Work Items. The…

In Lieu of Money, Toyota Donates Efficiency to New York Charity

I was completely inspired this week reading an article in the New York Times about how Toyota have used their Lean skills to help The Food Bank for New York…

SIMUL8 Tip – Copy ‘Current Contents’ to a spreadsheet

Have you ever wondered what's going on in your Queues? ‘Current Contents’ is one of my favorite tools in SIMUL8; it is a simple and fast way to see exactly…

SIMUL8 Tip – How to use the Scenario Manager to decide the correct number of staff or resources

In this tip we are adding to the simulation from last week’s tip. So we are starting with a simple simulation of a Grocery Store where the activity (All Checkouts)…