PRIMARY COURSE TOPICS

DAY 1

• Overview of Plant Simulation
• Get started with Plant Simulation
• Explore the Plant Simulation graphical user interface
• Define a target, analyze a simple system, and acquire data
• Create a simple model
• Validate the throughput of a simple model
• Prepare to create a new model from the previous model
• Create a more detailed model to produce a better result (begin)

DAY 2

• Create a more detailed model to produce a better result (finish)
• Implement basic objects to analyze results
• Create a hierarchical model
• Identify inherited objects and attributes
• Navigate and change 3D viewer visualization
• Simulate machine processing time and failures with distributions
• Material flow objects with a capacity greater than one
• Model length-oriented objects (begin)

DAY 3

• Model length-oriented objects (finish)
• Setup time, assembly, and dismantle objects
• Create user-defined attributes and data tables
• Use basic workers and work shifts
• Create experiments and custom reports
• Gather time, cost, and power consumption statistics

DAY 4

• Add textured plates, point clouds, and backgrounds
• Insert custom logic
• Use the Method Debugger and anonymous identifiers
• Run a method during a simulation
• Set attribute values with methods
• Control frames and access data in tables (begin)

DAY 5

• Control frames and access data in tables (finish)
• Access data in tables, built-in methods, and convert data
• Create conditional methods and access the contents of an object
• Model transport systems and setup time
• Collect statistics with methods
• Save and load data into a Plant Simulation table