The SIMUL8 Brain

Friday’s Tip- Looking at Work in Progress Results

As you may already know, developing a simulation in SIMUL8 is really easy. To get started you simply need to drag your four items onto the screen, which are; your…

SIMUL8 tricks of the trade

What’s your top tip for the rookie user? Number one for us is to know what the objective of the simulation is and ask yourself, ‘What is the problem I’m…

Friday’s Tip-Extending simulation by adding revenue

This week we will extent last week’s simulation by adding revenue which is unique to each of our four product types. Please add another column (called revenue) to your spread…

Friday’s Tip-Referencing spread sheet values based on product type

As promised last week we’ll be building up our simulation by adding a work center (WC) that will process the work items. Each work item has a unique operating time…

Friday Tip – Structuring a Simulation

Before you start building a simulation it's worth taking a step back and thinking about what you are going to simulate and why. Simulation professionals spend a lot of time…