Launching a Simulation and Analyzing the Results

The results of an analysis are an expression of "what happens" to the model under different physical conditions, for example, under stress, motion, or heat treatment, or a combination of many conditions. The results of a simulation, typically numerical outputs, can be displayed graphically or animated. The effects are demonstrated very clearly.

The SIMUL8 files you generate do not include the results of the simulation runs, they only save the list of objects and result properties that will be listed in the result summary.

Consequently, you must use the SIMUL8 interface to display the results.

You can:

Display the results individually for each object using its property sheet or use the list of objects in the Results menu

Display the results of some object properties using the Results Summary dialog box available from the Results menu. You can add to the Results Summary either all the results of one object using the Add All Results to Results Summary button or add one atomic result of an object by right-clicking the Results button in its property sheet

Export the results in text or Excel files: These files do not contain the object names and properties, but only the SIMUL8 internal identifiers, and therefore cannot be easily interpreted

Display a snapshot of the results, which contains only the number of work items that were processed by each work center

In order to have predefined objects and properties in the summary of the results, the generation declares in the simulation file the following objects and their main properties:

Work centers:

Completed Jobs

Percent of time: awaiting work, working, blocked

Work entry points:

Number of work items entered, lost

Work exit points:

Works completed, time in system: minimum, average, maximum, std deviation

Queues:

Number of work items: currently, average, maximum, total entered, average queue time, number of non zero queueing times

Financial results: Profit plug-in

SIMUL8 objects have all some financial properties such as "Cost" or "Revenue".

At the end of the simulation, you can display the global cost and revenue of the model using the Finance→Income Statement command.

The Finance commands are available only when the Profit plug-in is installed.

Plug-ins
SIMUL8 Professional includes all the standard plug-ins: Profit, COM, SQL, TimeView, Process, etc.
SIMUL8 Standard does not include those plug-ins.