Other Constraints Examples

Apart from Resources, you can use other features for constraining your simulation including Shifts, Activity Efficiency, Groups, and many more. The following present applications of these features.

Shifts

shift_dependent_resources.s8

Shows how to set the availability of Operators in the Morning and Afternoon Shifts of the day.

checkprocesstimeagainstshifttimebeforeloadingitemstoactivity.s8

Shows how to use Visual Logic to prevent Work Items entering an Activity if the time left until the Activity is off-shift is shorter than the Activity's operation time.

Change Overs

changeover_withresource_simul8basic.s8

Shows how to use a Resource for a Change-over task happening after every item is processed. This example is most applicable to the Simul8 Student version, if you are using the latest Professional version, you can use Multi Task Timing instead.

Replicate

replication_utilization.s8

This example presents approaches to calculating Activity Utilization Results.

Constraints on Queues

capacity.s8

This example shows how to constrain the number of Items that can be in a Queue at a time.

shelflife.s8

This example shows how to use Shelflife and Expired Routing In.

Breakdowns and Scheduled Maintenance

scheduledmaintenance.s8

This example shows how to incorporate Scheduled Maintenance in your simulation.