Tips and Tricks

Using Excel VBA within INOSIM, making use of the reporting object, or printing the Gantt chart as an oversized PDF – our experienced INOSIM consultants have opened their bag of tricks to share their knowledge with you.

In the download area of the particular tips and tricks, registered users of INOSIM can find simulation models for many examples used in the text. You can also download every tip and trick here as a PDF file.

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When modeling a production process, it may happen that a certain property is not built into the software: the material of the equipment, or the…

Understanding the differences between Null, Empty, and Nothing, and related changes in INOSIM 14 While numbers are initialized with zero (0), and strings with an…

Often enough, INOSIM models are maintained by several people. One challenge is to provide everyone involved with the most up-to-date version and to keep them…

6. February 2024

Custom Failure Handling

In INOSIM simulations, custom stochastic unit failures can be utilized to accurately replicate reality in a plant. With the Statistical Analysis Add-on, a large number…

In this tip and trick, the Transfer Analysis dashboard is introduced. It is an extension of the Power BI standard dashboard that allows you to…

In INOSIM, the availability of resources and units can be represented using Shift Calendars. A Shift Calendar determines when a unit is available or how…

This Tip & Trick will provide you with a convenient tool to visualize and analyze transfers in your model utilizing the BICON extension. The Tableau…

This Tip & Trick describes a multitude of methods to prevent and handle runtime errors of your VBA code. You will be introduced to the…

24. November 2022

Event Call Sequence

As an experienced INOSIM user, you are aware that you are working with a discrete-event simulation software. For most events, VBA controls can be called…

2. September 2022

Tank Level Evaluation

INOSIM provides a set of predefined results and evaluations, either in the Gantt Chart or as an Excel Report. Especially the Excel Reports can be…

This Tip & Trick is about using a VBA Timer execution timer for VBA controls and measuring the execution duration of VBA controls. To check…

With the INOSIM 13 Version, the Basic Editor supports, in addition to WWB-COM, the WWB.NET language, which is compatible with Visual Basic .NET. Therefore, also…

In the process industry, it is not unlikely that a resource demand changes over the time of a process operation. Typical examples are cooling jackets…

The control frameworks for the Unit Pool Allocation control and the Transfer to/from Unit Pool control in the new INOSIM version 13 have changed. The…

19. July 2021

Custom Gantt Colors

The INOSIM Gantt chart provides the option to color allocation bars on the basis of various predefined attributes. In the order view, it is possible…

Learn how to use the implemented probability distributions in INOSIM to add stochastic failures or process parameters to your model, and how to set up…

Did you know INOSIM can be remote-controlled by any program that can send signals via the COM-Interface? Let us sketch a scenario of how this…

26. November 2020

Fast Sorting Of Arrays

Fast Sorting Of Arrays When sorting arrays, the runtime of the applied sorting procedure may play a crucial role. For smaller amounts of data, that…

Interval Evaluation Of The Transfer Report In this tip, we show you how to automatically compute data via VBA with the help of INOSIM-generated reports…

2. September 2024

The Reporting Object

The Reporting Object With INOSIM 12, the Reporting object was added to the INOSIM object library. The Reporting object provides extensive options to create and…

19. August 2024

Applying Table Objects

In INOSIM models, it can be very handy to organize the input for your recipes in Excel Tables, either to have a better overview over…

Working With External Excel Workbooks Beside access to the Excel workbook built in to INOSIM (see tip Benefit From Your Excel Knowledge While Working With…

In this tip, you learn how to create PDFs which display a selected time range of a complex Gantt chart. You also learn how to…

21. August 2024

Custom Bars

Custom Bars Custom bars are a feature introduced in INOSIM 12. They allow you to display processes in your Gantt chart which are not part…

Graphical auxiliary functions give live to your plant layout: By animation, you dynamically display filling level changes, transport movements of objects, or the status of…

Custom Curves and Properties Of Curves in INOSIM Gantt In your model, the same raw material is stored in several tanks, and you wish to…

In your INOSIM project, you can integrate unit failures to represent reality even more precisely in your model, as failures might have a great impact…

Benefit from your Excel VBA Know-how In this tip and trick we want to show you how to activate and use Excel’s VBA commands from…

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