How to run a revised simulation
Introduction
Running a revised simulation enables you to observe any changes in the results of a process after you modify the simulation's attributes.
Before you run the revised simulation, take a moment to review what you have completed so far. Earlier in this module, you set a preference in the business modeling Preferences window when you updated the cost of each task to $1.50. You then created a simulation snapshot and ran a simulation based on those global preferences. Next, you modified a snapshot setting by specifying the time interval between token bundles as 20 minutes. You then created a new simulation profile, which inherited both of those updates. Next, you modified a process setting by changing the number of tokens to 15, and a task setting by updating the cost of the Review Loan Application task to $5.00. Now you are ready to run the revised simulation based on that same simulation profile that you created, and this revised simulation will incorporate all of the revised preferences and attributes.
To run the revised simulation of the Loan Application (To Be) process, complete the following steps:
Steps
- On the Control Panel toolbar, click the Run
icon. The simulation starts and runs until completion, based on the attributes that you have provided. Watch the animation shown in the Simulation editor as the data and control pass from one activity to another through the process flow. The number at the top of the task indicates how many tokens are waiting to be processed.
- You can control the simulation by clicking the various icons in the Simulation Control Panel toolbar.
- To pause the simulation, click the Pause
icon.
- To stop the simulation, click the Stop
icon.
- To run the simulation in steps, click the Step
icon. Note: You will not need to run simulations in steps in this tutorial. For more information on steps, see the topic on running simulations in the help documentation.
- To pause the simulation, click the Pause
From the statistics displayed in the Simulation Control Panel, you will able to see the results of the updates that you completed in the previous exercises of this tutorial. In the Processes tab, note that 15 tokens were passed through the process, and that the process start times for each token are 20 minutes apart. If you click the Tasks tab and expand each of the process results, you will see that the Review Loan Application task costs more to execute than the other tasks in the process as a result of both the update that you made to the task simulation attribute and that fact that there is a resource associated with the task.
The results of the simulation that are displayed in the Simulation Control Panel provide key information about the process and its component tasks. However, WebSphere® Business Modeler provides an even more powerful tool for analyzing the results of your simulation. In the next exercise, you will perform dynamic analysis to obtain a detailed breakdown of statistics resulting from your simulation.
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