Time cost

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

Time cost chart

The time cost chart shows the cost consumed against time spent throughout simulation.

An overview of time cost chart

No.	Name	Description
1	Completion	Click to show completion chart.
2	Resource Usage	Click to show resource usage chart.
3	Queue Time	Click to show queue time chart.
4	Cost Per Flow Object	Click to show cost per flow object chart.
5	Cost Per Input	Click to show cost per input chart.
6	Time Scale	Control the length of chart by selecting a time scale.
7	Auto refresh	Check to let the chart body auto update against chart settings such as time scale and selection of inputs. Uncheck to update manually by clicking Refresh.
8	Refresh	Click to update the chart body against the chart settings such as time scale and selection of inputs. This button is available only when Auto Refresh is unchecked.
9	Nodes	Check or uncheck flow objects nodes to show or hide their cost per input in chart.
10	Chart body	The chart body.
11	Export	Click to export the opening chart to Microsoft Excel or image file.
12	OK	Click to close the simulacian charts window and go back to the diagram.

Description of cost per flow object chart

5. Cost per input

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