Getting Started

GETTING STARTED WITH ARENA
plots • 28
Poisson distribution • 151, 164
Probability distribution • 151
process flowchart • 9
process mapping • 174
process maps • 9
checking the drawing • 178
publishing on a Web • 181
simulating other Visio drawings • 180
transferring the drawing to Arena • 180
Process module • 10, 15, 33
Process Simulation
distributing the add-in • 181
stencil • 174
Project Bar • 8
Project Explorer • 125
Project Parameters dialog • 20
Properties tool window • 126
Q
Queue module • 45
queueing • 38
R
ranking rules • 45
reading data from input file • 58
ReadWrite module • 58
Record module • 41
Regulate module • 114
Regulator Set module • 118
Release module • 60
Release Regulator module • 117
Remove module • 61
repeating time-period • 74
reports • 23
Request module • 97
resource constraints
seizing and releasing • 33
Resource module • 19, 46
resource sets • 51
resource states • 46
resources
defining states • 73
definition • 46
failures • 46
releasing units previously seized • 60
schedule definition • 50
Route module • 86
rulers • 27
running the simulation • 29
S
sample models • 3
saving your model • 20
Scene controls • 130
Scene window • 122
Schedule module • 50
Scoreboard control • 129
Search module • 64
Segment module • 103
Seize module • 62
Seize Regulator module • 115
Sensor module • 111
Separate module • 39
Sequence module • 100
Set module • 51
sets definition • 51
Signal module • 65
simulating your process • 21
simulation run length • 180
Smarts library • 3, 14, 17
snap • 11
specific time-period • 74
split view • 25
splitting batches • 39
spreadsheet view • 9
Start module • 91
StateSet module • 73
Static Objects • 148
Static Objects folder • 148
Station module • 87
Statistic module • 74
statistics, defining collection • 74
stepping through the simulation • 22
Stop module • 91
Storage module • 78
Store module • 66
T
tally sets • 51
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