Simulation with Arena
Learn process analysis, queueing models and production simulation in Rockwell Arena from scratch, by building them.
What you will learn
6Fundamentals
The interface, and how a flow chart thinks.
Process modelling
Customer and product arrivals, service times, decision logic.
Resource management
Staff schedules, breaks, and unplanned machine failures.
Advanced flows
Assembly lines, batching and separating entities.
Visualisation and animation
Leaving grey boxes behind: moving people, machines and live statistics on top of your model.
Hands-on projects
Building systems from scratch — a hotel, an emergency department, a freight operation.
About the course
Built on learning by doing rather than on theory and formulas, this course takes you through Rockwell Arena from the first module to a finished model.
It is for the industrial engineering student who wants to do well in exams and projects, and equally for the professional trying to clear a bottleneck in a factory or a service operation.
Testing a system in real life is expensive and risky. Here you will model it on a computer instead — hospital queues, production lines, and much in between.
Nothing is memorised: every new module is tried immediately on a real project, a bank branch or an assembly line.