Simul8 Tips

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…

How to Set Conveyor Capacities

In SIMUL8, the number of work items on a conveyor is generally restricted by both the conveyor’s length and its speed. However, you may want to see what happens if…

How to Use a Variable to Record Breakdowns

This week, we’re taking a step away from SIMUL8 2014 and looking at a feature that any Visual Logic enabled version can use. We’re talking about the special variable called…