Getting started
Install ProcessModel, get to know the workspace, and build your first working model.
- How ProcessModel Improves ProcessesHow ProcessModel helps you improve a process: model it, run it, find the bottlenecks, and test changes before you make them for real.
- What is ProcessModelWhat ProcessModel is: process simulation software to model, run, and improve a process before changing it.
- Model ElementsThe building blocks of a ProcessModel model: entities, activities, queues, resources, routes, and more, dragged from the palette onto the canvas.
- System RequirementsThe hardware and Windows requirements to install and run the current version of ProcessModel.
- Configure AISet up an AI provider so you can use Build with AI, Edit with AI, and AI Analysis in ProcessModel.
- The Fastest Way to Build a ModelThe quickest ways to a working ProcessModel model: Build with AI, start from a sample, draw it on the canvas, or import an existing model.
- Demo ModelsThirty ready-to-run example models grouped by industry, each built around a real bottleneck. Open one and run it straight away.
- Import legacy modelsImport legacy ProcessModel models into the new version. Open an old .spg file, review the import summary, and keep working on the canvas.
- Why Variability MattersWhy variation, not averages, drives queues and delays, and how ProcessModel models it with distributions and replications.
- Best Practices for Model BuildingPractical habits that make a ProcessModel model faster to build and easier to trust: get the flow right first, animate, add detail in layers, and validate.
- Build with AICreate a working ProcessModel simulation from a plain-language description, and edit an existing model by describing the changes you want.
- What to Collect for a ModelWhat to gather before you build a model: the goal, the flow, resources, times, and arrivals.
- Find and ReplaceSearch a model by name to jump to any shape, route or annotation, and rename them one at a time or all at once.
- PrintPrint your model to a PDF file or to a printer, with a live preview that shows exactly where the page breaks fall.
- Protect ModelLock a model with a password so it cannot be opened without one, or hand out a copy that can be run but not changed. Includes what happens if the password is lost.
- BackupsProcessModel keeps timed copies of the models you work on. Open the Backups window to take one, browse what has been kept, and bring a diagram back.
- License and activationActivate ProcessModel on a computer, check what is active and for how long, move a license between machines, and sign out.
- Tutorial VideosVideo tutorials that take you from process-simulation basics to advanced techniques in ProcessModel.
- ChangelogA version-by-version history of ProcessModel releases, features, and fixes.