SIMUL8 Work Entry Point Properties

SIMUL8 work entry point property sheets contain all the standard start tabs, along with the Simulation tab, the properties of which are listed below.

Name

Description

Capital cost

Specifies the capital cost. Financial results can be viewed in SIMUL8, by selecting Finance > Income Statement.

Default value: 0

Scripting name: FinanceCapitalCost

Capital cost by unit

Specifies the capital cost by work unit.

Default value: 0

Scripting name: FinanceCapitalCostByUnit

Time distribution type

Specifies work feeding by using different statistical distributions. You can choose from one of the following values:

  • Exponential [default]

  • Average

  • Fixed

  • Normal

  • Uniform

Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeDistribution

Average time

Specifies the average time between two consecutive work items (in time units).

Default value: 10

Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeAverage

Lower bound time

Specifies the lower bound for the uniform timing distribution type. Samples from a uniform distribution are equally spread between the lower bound and the upper bound.

Default value: 10

Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeBoundLower

Upper bound time

Specifies the upper bound for the uniform timing distribution type. Samples from a uniform distribution are equally spread between the lower bound and the upper bound.

Default value: 11

Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeBoundUpper

Time standard deviation

Specifies the standard deviation for the normal timing distribution type. For the average distribution type, standard deviation value is set to: average value / 4.

Default value: 0

Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeStandardDeviation