SIMPROCESS Advanced Feature

User Defined Attributes

By defining your own set of attributes, you can begin customizing your model. These attributes can represent model element attributes that are not built into SIMPROCESS, such as Entity weight or size, skill level of a Resource, or service level. You define attributes in association with:

• Entity types, or Entity instances
• Processes or Activities
• Resources
• The Model

When you define an attribute, you either tell SIMPROCESS to create an instance of that attribute for every model element of the same type (e.g., Entities, Resources), or to just create the attribute for a particular type of model element (customer order Entities, truck Resources). In SIMPROCESS terminology, we say that attributes are either globally defined or locally defined. Model attributes are only globally defined.