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