It’s hard to believe that 18 years have passed since our very first days at SIMUL8, and we must admit it’s been amazing and we’d like to thank all our customers who have helped us grow!

Since 1994, we’ve delivered cost savings and efficiency gains for major organizations, there have been changes along the way, but our winning formula has stayed the same: to make business processes more efficient. Plus, we are fortunate enough to have a team of employees who love what they do-and we’re sure this is the reason we’ve continued to produce dynamic, innovative software.

We’re thrilled to be celebrating our 18th birthday, and are looking forward to what the future will bring! We know the years ahead will continue to be exciting and we are all braced for an amazing ride as the SIMUL8 journey continues.

Check out the before and after pictures of our birthday cake!

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Once your resource is on the screen if you hold the left mouse button down when over a resource icon, you will highlight all of the Work Centers in your simulation to which that particular resource has been assigned.

Plus, you can use the ‘FIND’ function in the advanced options for any resource in order to display a list of all of the locations within your simulation where that resource may be utilized.

Watch this video to see how to do it.

We hope you find this tip useful!

This event will focus on the best ways to improve processes in healthcare systems. As you already know, at SIMUL8 Corporation we pride ourselves on producing world renowned dynamic, innovative simulation software that improves processes, so attending this conference is a great opportunity to showcase our work. Plus, our very own Claire Cordeaux and Fiona Lindsay will be presenting a poster on ‘making simulation easy to use’ in the Exhibit Hall.

With SIMUL8’s aim to improve software and simulation development to overcome barriers for use in healthcare, our poster describes the methods we have developed to try and bridge the gap.

The topic chosen for this year’s poster is heavily aligned with both our aim, and the aim of SHS; to tackle healthcare industry problems and advance healthcare systems.

Improving healthcare means identifying trade-offs between resource utilization, waiting times, operating costs and the quality of care. This year’s conference gives us the opportunity to explore and share best practices in quality, productivity and efficiency for healthcare industry decision makers.

So while everyone else may be gambling their savings away in Vegas, we get to show how discrete event simulation allows healthcare administrators to experiment with solutions without putting patients at risk, and can manage more complexity than the traditionally used spreadsheet analysis. Who’s the winner now?

Now, since the launch of our new product we’ve had a few questions from our Standard users and we’d like to take the opportunity to answer your most frequently asked question here, on our blog.

If you’re currently a SIMUL8 Standard customer, don’t worry, you’ll still be supported in the near future, and if you’re on an annual maintenance plan you’ll continue to receive upgrades.

Because we love our customers so much, and we want to keep everyone in the loop, we have a dedicated FAQ page on our website. If you want to know more our FAQ’s provide answers on what SIMUL8 Basic means for you. If there’s something we’ve missed, please let us know.

Oh and there’s more, yep we are that good! If you’re a Standard customer and would like to upgrade to SIMUL8 Professional to add a completely new dimension to your simulation modeling, we are currently offering all Standard customers the option to upgrade for a special discounted price of $1,995 (normally $3,995). Don’t say we’re not good to you!

Service packs include all kinds of exciting new features. For example, the latest service pack lets you open your run time results charts straight from the ribbon rather than the old way of having to go through the results dialog. Let us know if there are any other features you’d like to see directly on the ribbon for easy access and we’ll add it to a future service pack for you.

Don’t miss out on these new features and subscribe to our notification service and receive an update that a new service pack is released.

To check which build you are on now, open SIMUL8 and go to the Help/About menu. The latest build is 2484. If you are on an earlier version it’s definitely worthwhile updating your software here by following the instructions. Remember to check the box to receive a notification when a new service pack is released!