Resource usage

Sometimes, just by watching the simulacian outcome is not enough in finding out the bottleneck, especially when the diagram is large, and has many, many bottlenecks. In such cases, you can produce charts for simulacian outcome, which helps quantify resource consumption and queuing time for each flow object.

To read the charts, click Simulacian Charts in simulacian control panel.

Open simulacian charts window

Resource usage chart

The resource usage chart shows the percentage of resource consumption throughout simulation. If a resource has its peak reaching 100%, it means that the allocation of that resource is in optimum state. If the peak is below 100%, it means that some of the resources are not used throughout the simulation, which usually signifies that they are wasted, and you should consider adjusting the amount of available resource to optimize the resource consumption.

An overview of resource usage chart

No.	Name	Description
1	Complete	Click to show completion chart.
2	Queue time	Click to show queue time chart.
3	Cost Per Flow Object	Click to show cost per flow object chart.
4	Cost Per Input	Click to show cost per input chart.
5	Time Cost	Click to show time cost chart.
6	Show by	Select what to present in the chart. Resource - Cause the chart to presents the resource consumption of each available resource. Resource Type - Cause the chart to presents the resource consumption of resource types.
7	Time scale	Control the length of chart by selecting a time scale.
8	Auto refresh	Check to let the chart body auto update against chart settings such as whether to show by resource or resource type, time scale and selection of resources and resources type. Uncheck to update manually by clicking Refresh.
9	Refresh	Click to update the chart body against the chart settings such as whether to show by resource or resource type, time scale and selection of resources and resources type. This button is available only when Auto Refresh is unchecked.
10	Resources	Check or uncheck the resources to show or hide their usage in chart. This pane is active only when Resource is selected in the drop down menu Show By.
11	Resource types	Check or uncheck the resource types to show or hide their usage in chart. This pane is active only when Resource Type is selected in the drop down menu Show By.
12	Chart body	The chart body.
13	Export	Click to export the opening chart to Microsoft Excel or image file.
14	OK	Click to close the simulacian charts window and go back to the diagram.

Description of resource usage chart

1. Completion

Table of Contents

3. Queue Time