Arena Professional Edition Forward Visibility for Your Business™ Technical Data

he design and implementation of supplier, manufacturing, T customer, and internal organizational processes all have a critical impact on the bottom line — and your ability to stay competitive. Poorly planned implementations can have disastrous effects, resulting in frustrated customers, lost business, and sinking profits.

Arena® simulation software protects your business by predicting the impact of new business ideas, rules, and strategies before implementation — offline, without causing disruptions in service. When the life of your business is at stake, Arena helps in selecting only the most beneficial strategies, empowering you with the confidence to “go live,” while avoiding unnecessary expenditures, optimizing investments, and strengthening customer relationships. Key Features Leading organizations have come to rely on Arena to help them Arena is designed for use throughout an enterprise, supporting improve customer service, capitalize on new business both in-depth analyses of a particular functional area (e.g., opportunities, and maximize profits. Arena has enabled manufacturing, logistics, customer service) and analysis of organizations around the world to: processes that span several functional areas. • Avoid costly mistakes caused by implementing decisions based Arena offers the unparalleled ease-of-use, flexibility, scalability, solely on intuition. and domain expertise required for modeling any aspect of a • Design processes to withstand the rigors and uncertainty of business enterprise. A flowchart-style modeling methodology, system randomness and variability. hierarchical modeling, and an extensive graphical library are just • Reveal hidden value and eliminate wasteful bottlenecks in some of the features that make Arena the world’s leading existing implementations and internal processes. simulation system. Here is a brief summary of Arena’s features: • Maximize customer relationships through exceptional service and delivery. Creating simulation models • Completely scalable, enterprise-wide modeling to model any aspect of your business Organizations worldwide have realized a return of more than • Intuitive flowchart editor to describe processes 15 times their investment in Arena and achieve these returns • Optional convenient spreadsheet data entry within a few weeks to a few months. • Powerful modeling of expensive and critical constraints and resources such as staff, equipment, and other investments • No “brick walls” — robust modeling for detailed studies of • Generate custom user and data interfaces with Microsoft Visual complex systems Basic® for Applications (VBA) and ActiveX® controls • Hierarchical aggregation and decomposition to aggregate or • Customizable toolbars, context-sensitive menus, and online help expand system components • Powerful template development environment to create and • Free library of more than 200 tutorial models (SMARTS) to help distribute custom libraries of modeling constructs you learn Running simulations Data integration and model customization • Automatic flowchart animation for dynamic visualization of • Graphical editor to describe schedules associated with staff and process flows equipment, as well as arrivals of customers, parts, or other • Compelling system animation for presentations and system system entities validation with a vast collection of customizable icons and • Input data analyzer that automatically fits raw data to the best dynamic business graphs statistical distributions • Run-control features, including powerful debugging tools such • Reuse existing knowledge and data through built-in spreadsheet as graphical object browsers, watch windows, breakpoints, and interface to standard databases such as Excel and Access and more

2 • Easy distribution of models to others for viewing and Extendible and customizable experimenting Arena’s standard, open architecture enables the creation of custom interfaces and applications. As an enterprise matures in Viewing results and making decisions its use of simulation, Arena Professional provides the development

• Comprehensive reporting capability through Crystal Reports®, platform for organizations to craft their own suites of custom including graphs publishable as HTML, Word, Excel, and more simulation tools. • Automatic roll-up of statistics through process hierarchy so that you can view costs, times, and other information at the lowest level … and also see their accumulation in departments, workcenters, or entire facilities • Detailed activity-based costing, custom statistics, and automatic confidence intervals • Powerful output analysis tools to compare results from different scenarios • Find optimal answers with industry-leading optimization package – OptQuest®

Benefits Natural and consistent modeling methodology Many simulation software packages require users to learn and apply different and confusing modeling methodologies, depending upon the complexity of the application. Arena utilizes a familiar, flowchart-style technique for model building — regardless of the detail of complexity of the application being modeled.

Scalable architecture Arena offers powerful simulation software in a natural, graphical interface. Designed to suit the needs of the beginner, yet powerful enough to satisfy the demands of the most advanced user, Arena adapts to both the application being modeled and the experience level of the user.

Open architecture To enhance the value of simulation and its use of existing corporate information assets, Arena delivers built-in, flexible interfaces to leading desktop applications, as well as embedded VBA for creating custom interfaces. ActiveX controls can be inserted into a model to enhance its UI or logic. Model logic and data can be transferred from Visio drawings using Arena’s Visio stencil. In addition, data can be incorporated directly from

3 Microsoft Excel into models or it can be input using Arena’s • Hard drive with 75-250MB free disk space (depending on convenient spreadsheet data interface. operating system and options installed). • Access to a 3.5" diskette drive is necessary to use master disk Complete simulation project support activation (not necessary with FactoryTalk® Activation™). Arena provides a complete set of tools to support simulation • 64MB RAM (recommended 128MB RAM or higher, depending on project activities from start to finish, including statistical analysis of operating system). input data, an exhaustive collection of model-building templates • Minimum Pentium® processor 300Mhz or higher. and constructs, animation to visualize how your process works and Note: The running and animation of Arena and some large communicate system behavior to others, powerful debugging tools, simulation models can be calculation-intensive, so a faster output analysis tools that help you statistically compare simulation processor with additional memory may result in significantly run results to make decisions, optimization capabilities to improved performance. In addition, a larger monitor and a screen determine automatically optimal answers to selected scenarios, resolution of at least 1024 x 768 are recommended for improved and run-time capabilities to distribute your models to others for animation viewing. viewing or experimentation. Under Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, and Windows XP, you must have Administrator privileges to install System Requirements the software. Minimum requirements/recommendations for running the Arena software include: Catalog Numbers ® • Arena software, version 9.00.00. 9502-ARPEENE Arena Professional Edition node locked ® ® • Microsoft Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 (Service 9502-ARPEENF Arena Professional Edition concurrent Pack 3 or later), Windows Server™ 2003, or Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later). • Internet Explorer 5.01. (This does not need to be your active browser, but some Internet Explorer components are necessary for Arena to work.) • Adobe® Acrobat Reader 6.01 or later to view documentation.

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