Simulating your BPM can provide you with information to answer "what if" questions regarding your system. You can analyze the simulation results in a variety of formats, and then open simulation objects property sheet to adjust your simulation parameters, and suggest improvements in your business process.
Results Analysis
You can analyze your simulation results in SIMUL8 in a variety of ways, depending on the information you need. You can:
- Display results per object - open a simulation object property sheet, and click the Results button, or select :
- Display a results summary of a set of objects at the end of each simulation run - select :
- Export results to a text or Excel file - click the Copy tool in the Results Summary dialog, and paste the copied data into a text or Excel file. You can also select to export results summary data to a number of applications.
Simulation Fine-Tuning
Depending on your simulation results, you may have to adjust parameters in the simulation objects' property sheets, and re-run your simulation.
Once your fine-tuning is complete, you must save your simulation model as an .XS8 file to enable you to import it back to PowerDesigner (see Synchronizing SIMUL8 Changes back to PowerDesigner).