Output Report

Output Report is the results report you get after a run. It opens on the Overview, which leads with the answer: whether you can trust the run, how the process did, and where the constraint is. From there a tab for every part of the model lets you read, filter, and chart the detail, and hand it to the AI for analysis.

The Output Report Overview after a run

The Overview leads with the answer

A rail across the top frames the five questions a run answers, in order: Can I trust it? · How is it doing? · Where’s the constraint? · Why? · What if I change it? It highlights the questions the tab you are on answers, so you always know where a number sits in the bigger picture. The Overview itself answers the first three.

Can I trust it? A banner gives the run a plain verdict, green, amber, or red: run is trustworthy, read with caution, or do not trust this run. It checks that the run reached steady state, ran enough replications, and carries a confidence interval, and it names anything that fell short. A single-replication run, for example, is flagged because its numbers are one roll of the dice rather than an average. Open Details for the full checklist, or dismiss the banner for that run.

How is it doing? Five key figures sit beneath the banner: Throughput, Throughput Time, WIP in system, Cost per entity, and Process Efficiency. Throughput Time and Cost split by entity type rather than blending unlike work into one misleading average.

Where’s the constraint? A Your constraint block names the busiest step, says how heavily it is used, and, when the run tracked its queue, describes the pattern behind the wait. Three actions sit beside it: Optimize This Constraint hands the finding to PM Optimizer as a ready-made experiment, Open Impact Analysis jumps to the ranked detail, and a Why? button opens the AI’s plain-language read, prepared while the run finished. Below it, Next hot-spots ranks the steps that carry the most lost time after the constraint.

The tabs

Past the Overview, the report is a row of tabs. The primary tabs, left to right, are Overview, My KPIs, Bottlenecks, Flow, Activities, Resources, Cost, and Experiments, and an Advanced menu holds the detailed ledgers: Impact Analysis, Queue Diagnostics, Routes, Gates, Process Tables, Variables, Arrays, and AI Analysis. The report tabs article covers every column, and every table can be filtered, sorted, and searched (see Filtering results).

Because a model runs with variation, the report also shows the spread of the results across replications, with confidence intervals so you know how precise each figure is.

Going deeper

Bottlenecks ranks every wait-point by where time is spent and gives the top one a single evidence panel, so the constraint and its cause stand out.
Queue Diagnostics shows, as a heatmap, where and when work piles up.
Costs rolls up the cost of activities, resources, and entities.
AI Analysis reads the results and explains what to fix first, in plain language.
PM Optimizer goes beyond reading one run: it varies your settings across many runs to find the configuration that works best.

You can export the report to a spreadsheet, copy any table, and reopen past runs from the run history.

LegacyHow this worked in the previous version

Output Report is the advanced simulation output reporting engine for ProcessModel. It serves as the “engine room” for analysis, providing granular data visibility to understand the current state of your system, while simultaneously offering an “AI Layer” to automate insight and predict optimal solutions.

When a simulation is complete, Output Report replaces the traditional output report, offering a ribbon-based interface to filter, customize, and analyze performance metrics.

The Interface

The Output Report window is organized into a Ribbon Menu at the top, a Report Navigation pane on the left, and the main Data View.

The ribbon is organized into functional sections to help you manage data visibility:

Tabs: Toggle the visibility of specific report tabs (e.g., hiding Resources if only focusing on Entities).
Columns: Filter specific columns within a report to hide information not useful for your immediate analysis.
Personalize: Change the visual theme of the report.
Filter: Apply specific logic to narrow down data in the Impact Analysis.
AI Analysis: Select a focus (e.g., Throughput Time, Cost) and trigger the AI interpretation of your model.
Custom Report: Tools to create new comparative reports, add images, or text.
Export: Export data to Excel or print reports.
Support: Access help documentation.

General Reports

Output Report automatically generates ten general reports that expose the raw performance of the system. These tabs are located at the top of the Data View.

Output Report general report

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Custom Reports

Custom Reports allow you to create a comparative view of specific statistics tailored to your presentation needs.

All elements used to create custom reports work the same.

Select the object to use in the report from the Menu Bar.
Click on the layout to locate the upper left corner of the stat or graph location.
Make selections from the dialog to define the object.

The Custom Report includes: