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Older how-to and troubleshooting articles from the previous version, kept for reference. No longer maintained.
- How can I Compare Different Models on the Same Output Report?ObsoleteYou can compare multiple models on the same report. Why would you need to compare different models? Can’t you just make changes with scenario parameters? U
- How can I move the Midsection of a Route?ObsoleteHow can I move the midsection of a route so it doesn’t come so close to activities that it passes by? To relocate the middle of a route, click on the route
- How do I add Constant Supply of Entities?ObsoleteAn arrival that supplies entities to the attached activity whenever that activity has the capacity to take more entities any input queue capacity is ignore
- How do I add Fixed Interval Arrivals?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- How do I Add Layers?ObsoleteLayers let you organize objects by letting you separate related objects from other objects. A common use of layers is with background and foreground object
- How do I add Swimlanes?ObsoleteYou can use departments to display the flow of information and materials between different roles, groups or organizational units. These departments, or lan
- How do I Assemble Entities?ObsoleteAttaching one or more entities to a base entity. Suggested Technique 1. Use a percentage or conditional routing to the assembly activity for the base entit
- How do I Branch based on Percentage?ObsoleteRouting entities from one activity to one of several subsequent activities based on percentages, e.g. 40% go to one activity and 60% go to another. Suggest
- How do I Change Entity Graphics During Simulation?ObsoleteThere are two methods of changing the entity graphic during the simulation. Both methods are described below with separate suggested techniques. 1. Change
- How do I change the look and feel of Smart Stats?ObsoleteGlobal customization Customize the look of all reports using the Theme icon from the ribbon. Fonts, colors, and accents all change to popular and tested th
- How do I Change the Speed of Animation?ObsoleteDuring presentations it is often desirable to change the speed of animation to skip over periods of time that are uneventful and to slow the simulation to
- How do I Create a Background Graphic?ObsoleteCreating a background for the model. Useful in illustrating your model. Suggested Technique 1. From the Insert menu select Picture. 2. Locate and select a
- How do I create Customer Arrival Patterns?ObsoleteThe arrival rate of customers fluctuates according to a daily pattern. Useful for modeling customer traffic with busy and slow periods. Suggested Technique
- How do I Create Triggers?ObsoleteTriggers are stand-alone sections of a model that do such things as monitor other locations in your model, change global variable values, reset counters, e
- How do I determine Inventory Levels?ObsoleteHaving an activity check the current number of entities on-hand at a particular storage area. Useful for making decisions based on the number of entities i
- How do I Divide an Entity?ObsoleteA single entity is split or divided up into two or more entities. Suggested Technique 1. From the activity where the entity is divided, connect one or more
- How do I do Alternate Branching?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- How do I do Conditional Branching?ObsoleteRouting entities based on a condition such as the value of a variable or attribute. If a routing decision is based on a condition of the entity such as cus
- How do I do Job Shop Scheduling?ObsoleteA job shop produces a sequence of jobs with varying quantities for a specific time period, e.g., a day or week. Suggested Technique 1. Create an arrival to
- How do I do Parallel Processing?ObsoleteProcessModel supports parallel processing. Several demo models are included to show how parallel processing is done. Parallel Processing Using Create - Use
- How do I do Production Lot Scheduling?ObsoleteA production schedule in which a sequence of different items are repeatedly produced. Suggested Technique 1. Create an arrival from each entity type to the
- How do I Export Model Visuals?Obsolete1. Press CTRL + A to select all objects in your model, then press CTRL + C to copy. 2. In MS Word or other MS Office application click Paste Special then s
- How do I Find Graphic ID NumbersObsoleteThere is no way to display the actual graphic ID number of an entity. It must be calculated. A brief explanation will be needed for this process. Each shap
- How do I Hide Connection Lines?ObsoleteMaking the connection invisible entities so that appear to move without a path connecting the origin and destination of the entity. Suggested Technique 1.
- How do I Hold Entities Until a Condition is Satisfied?ObsoleteOnly allow one part at a time to enter a section of the process. Suggested Technique 1. Create a global variable. 2. Increment the variable when a part ent
- How do I Import Entity Graphics?ObsoleteImport graphics to be used as entities to enhance the dynamic representation of your model. The files that work best for entities are WMF and EMF. Other fi
- How do I Import New Shapes?ObsoleteAdd customized graphics to the Palette. The best graphics format includes WMF and EMF. Other graphic formats should not be used. How To – Add Shapes to a P
- How do I make curved connectors?ObsoleteTo enhance the look of any process improvement project, add curved connectors. To round one or more connectors, select the target connectors, then follow t
- How do I Pick Up Entities?ObsoleteThe entity requesting the pickup is attached to the requested entity. Suggested Technique 1. Create a routing for the entity that will trigger the pickup t
- How do I Produce Entities on Demand?ObsoleteProducing additional items when an in-process or finished goods storage has been depleted to a certain level. Useful for producing on demand based on the m
- How do I Protect Model?ObsoleteAt times you may want to prevent people from changing your model or even from looking at the logic you used to create the model. Model protection provides
- How do I Recover a Corrupted Model?ObsoleteThere have been a few rare occasions when a user has faced model corruption due to unrecommended changes or imports into the model, the following should he
- How do I remove a ProcessModel license offline?ObsoleteIf you are running ProcessModel v6.0 on a computer that does not have access to the internet, you maybe unable to relicense, or remove the old expired lice
- How do I Rename Entities during Simulation?ObsoleteChanging the name of an entity at an arrival, activity, or move time routing. The name is important because statistics are reported by entity name when ent
- How do I Renege an Entity?ObsoleteA customer waiting for service decides to leave rather than continue waiting. Suggested Technique 1. Route the customer to the desired activity. 2. Make su
- How do I Reorder Point Inventory Replenishment?ObsoleteOrdering more stock once an inventory reaches a certain level. Useful in maintaining certain levels of stock for production processes. Suggested Technique
- How do I Reunite Entities?ObsoleteReunite or join one or more entities to the entity from which they were previously created or detached. Suggested Technique 1. Create one or more entities
- How do I Route on Demand?ObsoleteEntities are routed to the next activity only when the next activity is ready for it. Useful for simple just-in-time or pull systems. Suggested Technique 1
- How do I Schedule Activities?ObsoleteNormally, if all activities may be performed during the same shift or block of time e.g. an 8 to 5 shift, it is unnecessary to simulate the activities by s
- How do I Schedule Appointments?ObsoleteArrivals occurring at specifically scheduled times such as office appointment schedules. Suggested Technique 1. On the arrival connection’s properties shee
- How do I Schedule Appointments with Early/Late Adjustment?ObsoleteArrivals occurring at specifically scheduled times with provision for variable early and late adjustment. Suggested Technique 1. Define a scheduled arrival
- How do I Separate Entities?ObsoleteSeparating entities that were previously attached or picked up. If the entity never had another entity attached or never picked up another entity, then use
- How do I Simulate Equipment Failure?ObsoleteA resource, such as a machine, fails during the simulation. Suggested Technique 1. Select the resource for which you want to define random failure. 2. In t
- How do I Simulate Stock Replenishment?ObsoleteA new order is placed when the input queue of an activity, or the contents of a storage, falls to the re-order level specified in the Order Signal. The act
- How do I Sort Entities?ObsoleteAn activity that examines the name or some other attribute of an entity to determine how to route the entity for further processing. For example, you want
- How do I Track Time Spent?ObsoleteTracking the length of time spent in a particular stage of a process. Suggested Technique 1. Define an attribute of type Real called a\ Start\Time or some
- How do I Track Times Against a Standard?ObsoleteCounting the number of times that an activity or other time consuming events fell within a particular range. Suggested Technique 1. Create two variables an
- How do I Tracking Entity Conditions?ObsoleteCounting the total number of entities meeting a special condition. Suggested Technique 1. Determine the condition or attribute to be counted. 2. Create a v
- How do I use an Attribute as Time?ObsoleteIn situations where an activity time varies based on the type of entity it is processing, an attribute can be used to define the time value for the activit
- How to Change the Default Model TemplateObsoleteChange the default model to include predefined activities, variables, scenario parameters, titles, simulation time and layers. Customize the default model
- How to Collect Individual Entity TimesObsoleteThe default report doesn’t capture interim time. It does not capture individual time, it does not capture entity time. This is something you will need to d
- How to Export Data From ProcessModel?ObsoleteSummary 1. Select Export Data from the Tools menu. 2. Select the items to export. Click OK. Export is created as a .XLSX. If you have Excel on your compute
- How to Import Data into ProcessModel?ObsoleteImport tens of thousands of lines of raw data into a model using the import data function. Summary 1. Select Export Data from the Tools menu. Select the it
- How to install ProcessModel on a MacObsoleteIn order install ProcessModel on a Mac computer we will need to install Windows along with, or within the macOS. The set of instructions below should ideal
- My Gallery Disappeared where did it go?ObsoleteWhen the gallery disappears it is usually the result of one of two actions. Using the temporary minimize arrow allows the gallery to be restored quickly. 1
- Why am I getting a Compiler Error with UpdateAfterGet() highlighted?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- Why am I Getting Entity Arrival Failures at the End of Simulation?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- Why am I getting "Open Failure" and "Error 22"?ObsoleteThis is a miscommunication between the Mac side and the Windows side, where the model is saved to a directory on a Mac that is saving the files to the clou
- Why am I Getting Percent Routing Do Not Add Up Message on Simulation?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- Why am I Getting Pmmain, Program Error, or Main Program Message on simulation?ObsoleteWhen the model is simulated it crashes ProcessModel at 312 hours, displaying any of the following error message: Reason There are 24/7 shift files in use.
- Why am I Getting Time Segments may not Overlap Message?ObsoleteWhen adding Daily Pattern arrivals, the following error occurred: Warning, Time segments may not overlap OR Translation Status: Normal Run Arrivals Table F
- Why am I Getting Translator Exception When I Try to Simulate?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- Why are the Graphics not Showing during Simulation?ObsoleteThe reason for this situation can be that the .glb file that is contained within the .SPG is missing some information, in order to regenerate the .glb file
- Why do I Get a Prompt Saying Server Busy?ObsoleteA “Server Busy” prompt may be received in any of the following cases: - An object is added to the layout window. - When a model is saved. - When a model is
- Why do I Get Unable to Open Excel File for Writing when trying to export?ObsoleteThis article is from the previous version of ProcessModel and is kept for reference.
- Why do Model Object Updates Fail?ObsoleteReason: The above prompt is usually received when the user is not connected to the internet or access to remotely connect and check for updates on the Proc
- Why is the Properties Dialog not Showing any of My Data?ObsoleteAll the data from my model is gone. The graphics are still there but the there is no data in the properties dialog box, it doesn’t show any parameters, act