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What is a Beta Distribution?
The Beta Distribution is a continuous distribution that has both upper and lower finite bounds. Because many real situations can be...
What is Benchmarking?
The concept of discovering what is the best performance being achieved, whether in your company, by a competitor, or by an...
What is the Sequence of Processing in ProcessModel?
The sequence of processing events as entities arrive at and leave activities, and route between activities is as following. At...
What are Entities?
Entities are the items or people processed during the simulation—e.g., products, documents, customers, etc. Selecting an entity shape from the...
What is an Activity Submodel?
The submodel tab (shown below) allows you to reference a subprocess chart when you are creating hierarchical models. All activities...
What is Activity Shift?
Shift file The name of the shift file which defines the times when this activity can be performed. A default...
What is Activity Cost?
The cost tab provides a method of adding cost to each entity as it moves through the process. The cost...
What is activity action logic?
Develop customized behavior for entities at an activity. In addition to the information set in the General tab of the...
What is Activity Batching?
The batching tab allows you to hold entities in queue until a specified quantity is reached. For example, parts might...
What is Resource Availability?
Percent Available Enter the percentage of time the resource is to be available for use. If a percent is entered...
What is Resource Cost?
The identification of cost is optional and has no effect on the behavior of the model. If costs are entered...
What is Resource Shift?
Shift file The name of the shift file which defines the times during which this resource is scheduled to be...
What is a Continuous Arrival?
A continuous arrival causes entities to continuously feed the connected activity whenever processing capacity is available at the activity; any...
What is a Daily Pattern Arrival?
A daily pattern arrival shows the rate at which entities arrive for different time periods during the day. Arrivals are...
What is an Ordered Arrival?
An ordered arrival is used in connection with an order signal connection to place an order for more entities to...