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What is an Entity?

Entities are the items or people being processed—e.g., products, documents, customers, etc. An entity is defined by selecting an entity...

What is a Resource?

Resources are the agents used to perform activities and move entities such as service personnel, operators or equipment. More than...

What is an Activity?

Activities define the process steps and work accomplished on the entities—e.g., such as assembly, document approval, or customer checkout. First,...

What is an Arrival?

Arrival connections define how entities enter the system to begin processing. Define arrivals by connecting an entity to an activity...

What is Entity Cost?

The identification of cost is optional and has no effect on the behavior of the model. Initial cost The initial...

What are Order Signals

An Order Signal is a connection from an activity or storage to an Ordered arrival or routing which notifies the...

What is a Shift?

Weekly shifts and breaks for activities and resources are defined using the Shift editor and may start and end at...

What is Action Logic?

ProcessModel allows you to design custom behavior in your model by using action logic in which you enter simple but...

What is a Storage?

Storages are waiting areas, stock places, etc. where entities can wait for further processing. Storages are useful when controlling the...

What is Stat::Fit?

Summary 1. Click Stat::Fit from the Tools menu. 2. Copy the column of data that you want to use within Stat::Fit. 3. Click...

What is a Variable?

Global Variables store information referenced and manipulated by the model. Variables are global, meaning they can be seen and changed...

What is a Scenario?

Scenarios are experiments used to find the best settings in your model. Automatically compare results from scenarios in the output...

What is an Attribute?

Attributes alone don’t do anything. When combined with other statements, attributes allow you to do everything — to solve the...

What is Ishikawa Diagram?

Ishikawa diagrams (also called fishbone diagrams or cause-and-effect diagrams) are diagrams that show the causes of a certain event. Common uses of...

What is a Scenario Parameter?

Scenario parameters are placeholders like variables, only to represent a value that changes from scenario to scenario. For example, if...