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Webinar Series: Complete Guide to SIMUL8 Success
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Webinar 1:
Getting Started With Simulation
Max Guild
 Bsc. Applied
Mathematics
 Finance and Banking
 Business Consultant
 Lean Six Sigma
Agenda
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Session 1:Getting Started
with Simulation
 Benefits of Simulation
 SIMUL8 Basics
 Distributions
 Routing
Agenda
Session 2:
Adding Complexity to your Simulation
Session 3:
Controlling your Simulation from Spreadsheets
Session 4:
Creating Custom Reports
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Simulation Benefits
Variability
Same number of
customers everyday?
Interconnectedness
Delayed aircraft
blocking a runway.
Complexity
Multiple pathways,
different behaviours.
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Cost
Expensive to
experiment with
new machinery
Time
Analysis over
long/short time
period
Control of
Experimental
Conditions
Change patterns /
variables
Repeatability
Simulation Benefits Vs Real Life
Real system
does not exist
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Better Solutions
Why SIMUL8?
Visualization Understanding Engagement Communication
Flexible
Profitable Successful Sustainable Robust
Supported
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Discrete event simulation
 Time in simulation progresses based on events rather
than fixed intervals.
 Clock jumps between intervals
 Fastest DES tool on the market
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Support Resources
 F1 Key
 Help menu (File  Help)
 Online User Forum
 Simulation Assistant
 support@SIMUL8.com
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Getting Started
Building our first simulation
1. Clock Properties
2. Basic Structure
Distributions &
Variability
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Uniform Distribution
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Normal Distribution
 95% range (lower): mean
 2* standard deviation
 95% range (upper): mean
+ 2* standard deviation
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Triangular Distribution
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Do you have any
Questions?
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Tune into our
NEXT WEBINAR
Session 2:
Adding Complexity to your
Simulation
9.27.16

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