Learn how to build simulation models using ExtendSim 7. This 3 day hands-on workshop covers the basics of discrete event simulation. Topics include:

	Understanding fundamental simulation concepts
	The basic item handling blocks
	Using key value handling blocks
	Working with item properties, such as attributes and priorities
	Creating, editing, and accessing an ExtendSim database
	Routing items
	Batching & unbatching items
	Presentation features including hierarchy, cloning, and 2D animation
	Using and scheduling resources
	Working with Equation blocks
	Advanced processing and queuing concepts

Essential Training is designed for those who are new to ExtendSim 7 or new to simulation modeling. Students will build, run, and analyze a model on Day 1 and explore more modeling components and concepts on subsequent days. The focus is on discrete event modeling, but the class is also essential for new rate-based modelers. Course materials include:

	Laptop computer for each student's use
	Course manual with case studies
	ExtendSim User Guide
	Solution files for all exercises

This course is offered publicly at various locations throughout the year (see schedule of course dates and times below).

Prerequisites: Basic computer skills (Windows XP or Vista). Knowledge of basic statistics (random distributions and confidence intervals) recommended.

On-site Essential Training

This course may also be scheduled at your convenience and in your facilities as a privately held on-site training. We will send one of our authorized expert instructors to your site for an intensive, hands-on, 3 day Essential Training for ExtendSim.

For a class of up to 5 students, the cost is $5500 plus instructor expenses (quoted on a "not to exceed" basis). Additional students are $400 each, up to a maximum of 10 students.

May also be combined with the Modeling Techniques course. See Essential Training + Modeling Techniques. Contact Imagine That Inc. for quote and availability of on-site training.

This 5 day hands-on workshop covers the basics of discrete event simulation modeling using ExtendSim while applying it to a class oproject. The workshop is divided into two modules - 3 days for Essential Training and 2 days for Modeling Techniques.

This module takes the concepts learned in the Essential Training module and applies them to a class project. The students will spend time building the model from the ground up. This gives the students time to reflect upon and apply the concepts they have just learned while being coached by the instructor. The students then learn and apply more advanced concepts to the model to understand appropriate analysis techniques. Topics include:

	Expanded work on building models
	Applying optimization in ExtendSim
	Understanding basic simulation statistics
	Learning validation and verification techniques
	Data management and exchange with an ExtendSim database
	Debugging and trouble-shooting

This course is designed for Engineers, Managers, System Analysts, and anyone else who wants to learn simulation modeling and/or get up to speed quickly with ExtendSim. It is appropriate both for those who are new to ExtendSim 7 and for beginning/intermediate simulation modelers. Course materials include:

	Laptop computer for each student's use
	Course manual with case studies
	ExtendSim User Guide
	Solution files for all exercises

This course is offered publicly at various locations throughout the year (see schedule of course dates and times below).

Prerequisites: Basic computer skills (Windows XP or Vista). Knowledge of basic statistics (random distributions and confidence intervals) recommended.

On-site Essential Training + Modeling Techniques

This course may also be scheduled at your convenience and in your facilities as a privately held on-site training. We will send one of our authorized expert instructors to your site for an intensive, hands-on, 4.5 day training.

For a class of up to 5 students, the cost is $7500 plus instructor expenses (quoted on a "not to exceed" basis). Additional students are $700 each, up to a maximum of 10 students.

Contact Imagine That Inc. for quote and availability for on-site training.

This two day, on-site instructor-led course explores ExtendSim's extensive data exchange, storage, and management capabilities, including:

	User interfaces for data exchange
	Internal data storage and management methods
	Blocks for data management and exchange
	Creating ExtendSim databases
	Establishing Parent/Child relationships
	Dynamic linking between a database and data
	Using the Excel Add-In for databases
	Database management

The focus is on creating and using internal ExtendSim databases, but other data exchange and storage capabilities will also be discussed.

Contact Imagine That Inc. for pricing and availability.

Pre-requisite: Essential Training for ExtendSim and Modeling Techniques courses, or, on instructor approval, a comparable proficiency.

Learn how to use the new discrete rate (rate-based) capabilities of ExtendSim AT. A hybrid of continuous and discrete event modeling, discrete rate modeling simulates rates of flow that change when events occur. This is the most common, and most efficient, method of modeling high-speed, high-volume systems such as packaging lines, mining operations, the manufacturing of powders and fluids, chemical processes, and so forth.

This course explores each block in the Rate library and presents modeling techniques such as:

	Sources, storage, and units
	Defining rates and critical constraints
	Methods for merging and diverging flow
	Control logic, including goals, hysteresis, shifts, and changeovers
	Mixing flow and items, such as for filling and palletizing operations

This course is available as either an online webinar or an onsite course. The webinar is spaced over four days in two hour sessions; the onsite course is more detailed and is presented over two days.

Contact Imagine That Inc. for pricing and availability.

Pre-requisite: Completion of an Essential Training for ExtendSim class or, on instructor's approval, a comparable proficiency in ExtendSim. This requirement is absolutely necessary before taking this course.

Course under development

ExtendSim provides both an internal programming language (ModL) and dialog editor. These two integrated features allow you to create custom modules and capabilities for ExtendSim, including accessing code written in external languages. This workshop covers the common uses and features of ModL, as well as the mechanics of creating code.

	ModL code overview
	Creating a custom block, with icon, connectors, tabbed dialog, and Help text
	Adding user interaction features and intermediate and final data reporting
	Adding animation to the block's dialog and icon
	ModL structure, system variables, and global variables
	Tips for enhancing block dialogs and capabilities
	Problem solving using the Source Code Debugger

Students will start by building an ExtendSim block and storing it in a library. After taking this course, you should have sufficient knowledge to create custom components in ExtendSim.

This course is available as an onsite course at customer request; contact Imagine That Inc. for onsite pricing and availability.

Pre-requisites: Proficiency with ExtendSim and/or programming (C++ recommended).

This course is available as an onsite course at customer request; contact Imagine That Inc. for onsite pricing and availability.