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If you don’t want to see the animation anymore during the simulation run, click the Fast
Forward ( ) button to run the simulation as fast as possible without animation update. Also
you can start the simulation run via the Run > Fast-Forward menu.
4.3 Reviewing the output reports
At the end of the simulation run, a message box will prompt to ask you whether you would
like to view the reports. Clicking Yes displays the reports as shown below.
In the Reports panel, you can see the list of reports provided by Arena. By clicking one of
them, you can see the corresponding report. The above figure shows the Category by
Replication report which provides the output results for each replication. As we specified in
Run Setup > Project Parameter, statistics are collected in four categories (Entity, Process,
Queue, and Resource) in addition to the system category (default statistics collected by
Arena).
The statistics provided in Arena’s reports can be classified into three types of statistics:
Tally statistics: it refers to the statistics such as average, minimum, or maximum of a
series of numbers. For example, the average and maximum of the total time in the
system of entities are 0.1145 hour and 0.3123 hour, respectively.
Time-persistent statistics: it refers the statistics such as time average, minimum, or
maximum of a plot of something during the simulation run. The time average is the
accumulated area under the plotted curve divided by the simulation length. For
example, one of time-persistent statistics is the average of the number of entities in
the queue at the machine that can be found in the Queue Other Number Waiting
of the report tree located to the left of the report. Also, the instantaneous utilization of
the resource (Resource Usage Instantaneous Utilization) is one of the time-
persistent statistics.
Counter statistics: it refers to the statistics of accumulated sum of something. One of
the counter statistics is the number of entities that entered or left the system which
can be found in Entity Other Number In or Number Out of the report tree.
According to the figure above, ninety jobs entered the system and eighty-nine of them
left the system.