| MODELLING |
| Modelling
elements |
Queue, buffer, wait space, parking
Server, machine, operations, task, resource
Transport, vehicle, car, truck, train, AGV
Conveyor, transport belt
Warehouse, storage, storage location
Path, track, route, road
Reservoir, flow storage, controlled storage
Aid, operator, tool, shared resource
In/out, source/sink, entry/exit, start/stop
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| Standard element
parameters |
(product related) cycle time, entry/exit conditions, batch size, (product related)
routing, costs, added value, breakdown, availability, x-y-z size & location, operator
requirements
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| Element specific
parameters |
Queue: Order LIFO, FIFO, ascending/descending by attribute value
Conveyor: speed, length, spacing, curve, accumulation
Transport: speed, acceleration, deceleration, lift speed
Path: maximum allowed speed, curve, directions
Warehouse: rows, columns, cell size, locations
Reservoir: accept control levels, release control levels
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| Item routing
definition |
Fixed addresses, conditional addresses, product related addresses, user-defined routing
rules, select statements
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| Element
availability |
Stochastic time related breakdown and repair, stochastic production related breakdown
and repair, deterministic planned availability (work shifts, breaks, pauses, planned
maintenance)
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| SIMULATION |
Optimised Simulation Algorithm Technology (OSAT), fixed time simulation runs, variable
time simulation runs, simulation stop conditions, progress by event single step mode,
terminating simulations, non terminating simulations, discrete event simulation, forced
timeslice evaluation
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| STATISTICS |
| Probability functions |
Constant, uniform, normal, negative exponential, lognormal, erlang, empirical (user
defined), gamma, weibull, triangular, beta, pearson type 5, pearson type 6, poisson,
binomial, negative binomial, geometric, bernoulli, complex combined
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| Random generators |
100 different generators, multiple assignment of single generator, antithetic random
variables, common random numbers
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| ANALYSIS |
| Input data analysis |
Data set analysis, derive average and standard deviation, best-fit suggestion,
graphical display of density functions, graphical display of distribution samples,
Microsoft Excel connection for data input, flat text data input
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| Output data analysis |
Queue graphs (queue length in time), queue histograms, wait time histograms, utilisation
pies, element status diagrams, dynamic result display, user defined graphs, trace reports
(listing of (selection of) events), status reports, cost reports, user defined reports,
Microsoft Excel connection for data output
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| Experimentation |
Warm-up period determination (welsh), sensitivity analysis, automatic simulation of
alternatives, (user defined) performance indicators, confidence intervals
(reliability/precision), subrun independency analysis (correlation plot/factor), subrun
method, subrun + warm-up, separate runs, separate runs + warm-up
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| ANIMATION |
2D full animation, 2D statistics animation, 3D wire animation, 3D solid animation,
camera position, zoom, rotate, wide angle, light source position, parallel light, spot
light, 2D scalable bitmaps, 2D icon editor, background bitmap editor, dynamic icons
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| DOCUMENTATION |
Automatic model documentation, sorted by functionality, sorted by element, simulation
event trace reports, elements reports, input parameter value listing, user defined
language report, print/edit/find/copy/paste functions of model documentation
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