Arena Guide

Arena is a commercial simulation package distributed by Rockwell Automation.

For more details see the main Arena website:

www.arenasimulation.com

and there is a good book on building Arena simulations:

Simulation with Arena, 4th Edition

which comes with a training version of Arena.

Arena Tutorials

Getting Started

• Starting Arena
• Creating a New Model
• Attaching a Template

Editing Models

• Adding and Connecting Modules
• Shortcuts for Editing
• Working with Submodels
• Editing Create Modules
• Editing Process Modules
• Editing Dispose Modules
• Editing Assign Modules
• Editing Decide Modules
• Editing Batch Modules
• Editing Separate Modules
• Editing Hold Modules
• Editing Delay Modules
• Editing Variables
• Editing Expressions

Animation

• Changing an Entity Type's initial animation picture
• Animating a Resource
• Adding a Dynamic Plot

Running Simulations

• Running a Simulation Model
• Dynamic Simulation

Arena Examples

• Building a Single Server Model
• Running the Single Server Model
• Dynamic Simulation with the Single Server Model

-- MichaelOSullivan - 21 Jul 2009