Simulating business process

In order to simulate a business process, you must provide performance-related information to the business process diagram, such as resource consumption and duration of flow objects, so that simulacian can analyze the information and conduct a simulation. Below are what you have to do to start simulation.

1. Right click on the background of the business process diagram that you want simulate and select Diagram Type > Simulacian from the pop-up menu.
   

   Set diagram's type to Simulacian

2. In the Simulacian Control Panel, click Add under Available resources to define the resources that can be used by the flow objects in the business process diagram in order to complete the tasks. If you want to know more about resources, please refer to the chapter What is simulacian?.
   

   Add available resources

3. For each of the flow objects, select it in diagram, and click Add under Required Resources in Simulacian Control Panel to add the resource(s) the participant needed to complete the job when reaching the selected flow object.
   

   Add required resources

4. For each of the flow objects, select it in diagram, and set in Simulacian Control Panel its duration, which is the time it takes to get completed. If you want to know more about duration, please refer to the chapter What is simulacian?.

   Set the duration of flow object

5. For each lane and pool (without lane), select it in diagram, and set its instance in Simulacian Control Panel, which represents the number of participants that take part in the process.
   

   Set instance of pools or lanes

6. Click on the background of diagram or click Show Inputs in Simulacian Control Panel.
7. Click Add under Inputs in Simulacian Control Panel to add the paths to be executed during simulation. For each input, set the name that describes the path, and the number of instances for the number of copies of the path to execute.
   

   Add input

8. Click Start in Simulacian Control Panel to start simulation.
   

   Start simulation

   Now, you can watch the simulation in diagram, to see the executions of inputs and identify bottlenecks.
   

   Simulation is running