In SIMUL8, the number of work items on a conveyor is generally restricted by both the conveyor’s length and its speed. However, you may want…
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Friday Tips
How to Use a Variable to Record Breakdowns
This week, we’re taking a step away from SIMUL8 2014 and looking at a feature that any Visual Logic enabled version can use. We’re talking…
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Check out our Collect All Work Items from a Queue
In this simulation we look at how we can collect all work items waiting in a queue at once. In this example there are work…
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Creating Breakdown Profiles in your simulation
Industries, such as automotive, heavily rely on an accurate representation of breakdown profiles of their machinery. SIMUL8 offers a wealth of options for modeling breakdowns,…
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Remember the current Work Item
(Relevant for advanced SIMUL8 users) When working on a simulation, there may be some instances when some of the code you write changes the focus…
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Debugging within your SIMUL8 model
There may be occasions where you want to trace a specific work item in your model for debugging purposes, for example, you may have noticed…
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A quick guide to Stat::Fit
Stat::Fit is a plug-in for SIMUL8 Professional. It is a simple way of knowing which distributions will work best throughout your simulation. This is done…
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Get combined contents chart across several objects
Content charts for objects are a great way to get quick results in a simulation and track how a queue can change during a run….
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Comparing and Merging Simulations
This week, we’ve got two features that help you work with multiple simulations. The use of the Combine and Merge features within SIMUL8 allow you…
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How to easily capture the “Jobs per Hour”
An easy way to get a descriptive representation of the throughput of your simulation is to use a “dwell buffer” of 60 minutes. This will…
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