Simul8 Tips

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…

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)…

Replicate and Resources

If you have a system where: an activity can be processing more than one job at a time or where the same task is worked on by multiple activities in…

Creating a Schedule for Arrivals

This SIMUL8 Tip is about setting up a schedule for arrivals at the Start Point of your simulation. This will allow you to specify the number of Work Items that…

Use Labels to Change Work Item Images

This week, we will look at using labels to dictate what image they should be within the simulation, without the use of Visual Logic. Let's take a basic 4 object…