Discrete Event Simulation (Beta)
Overview
Section titled “Overview”Discrete event simulation (DES) analyzes material flow through a layout directly in the browser. Instead of updating every visual frame, it advances between relevant events, which makes it suitable for faster throughput and utilization studies.
DES mode keeps planning and analysis close together: you can run a prepared material-flow model, accelerate the study, review statistics and organize repeated runs as experiments.
Core functions
Section titled “Core functions”- Material-flow statistics summarize throughput and utilization for the simulated layout.
- Fast-forward advances an event-driven run faster than real-time when you do not need to watch every movement.
- Projects and experiments group related scenarios and repeated runs for comparison.
- Runs and checkpoints retain a simulation state so a stored point can be loaded and continued.
- Run comparison combines selected runs from the same project and reports their statistical result.
Quick Start
Section titled “Quick Start”- Open a layout that contains a prepared material-flow simulation.
- Switch the workspace to DES.
- Start a run and observe the material-flow statistics rather than relying only on visual motion.
- Use fast-forward when you want to reach a later simulation time more quickly.
- Open the experiments area to identify the active project, experiment and run.
- Repeat the scenario with the intended settings, then select the relevant runs for comparison.