SIMUL8 Work Entry Point Properties

SIMUL8 work entry point property sheets contain all the standard start tabs, along with the Simulation tab.

The Simulation tab contains the following properties:

Name	Description
Capital cost	Specifies the capital cost. Financial results can be viewed in SIMUL8, by selecting Finance > Income Statement. Default value: 0 Scripting name: FinanceCapitalCost
Capital cost by unit	Specifies the capital cost by work unit. Default value: 0 Scripting name: FinanceCapitalCostByUnit
Time distribution type	Specifies work feeding by using different statistical distributions. You can choose from one of the following values: Exponential [default] Average Fixed Normal Uniform Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeDistribution
Average time	Specifies the average time between two consecutive work items (in time units). Default value: 10 Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeAverage
Lower / Upper bound time	Specify the lower and upper bounds for the uniform timing distribution type. Samples from a uniform distribution are equally spread between the lower bound and the upper bound. Default value: 10, 11 Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeBoundLower, InterArrivalTimeBoundUpper
Time standard deviation	Specifies the standard deviation for the normal timing distribution type. For the average distribution type, standard deviation value is set to: average value / 4. Default value: 0 Scripting name: InterArrivalTimeStandardDeviation