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What is SIMUL8?
Decision making happens every day, at every level, in every business.
Make your best decisions, every time - and deliver serious impact fast - with Simul8.
Base decisions on truth, not hunches. Understand and maximize flow. Reveal and inspire new ways to operate. Forecast and plan with confidence. Challenge the status quo. It's all possible with Simul8.
From decisions that save millions, to saving lives, organizations in every industry are driving transformative changes with Simul8.
Who Uses SIMUL8?
Simul8 is the most intuitive and fastest simulation engine on the market. Before Simul8, simulation software was costly, resource-hungry and time-intensive, Simul8 makes simulation accessible to all.
Where can SIMUL8 be deployed?
About the vendor
- SIMUL8
- Located in Glasgow, UK
- Founded in 1994
SIMUL8 support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, Japanese
SIMUL8 pricing
Starting Price:
- Yes, has free trial
- No free version
SIMUL8 does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. SIMUL8 paid version starts at US$4,995.00/year.
Pricing plansAbout the vendor
- SIMUL8
- Located in Glasgow, UK
- Founded in 1994
SIMUL8 support
- Phone Support
- Chat
Languages
English, Japanese
SIMUL8 videos and images
Features of SIMUL8
Alternatives to SIMUL8
Reviews of SIMUL8
We see Simul8 is a collaborator in teaching and research
Comments: My experience with Simul8 has been excellent. I was introduced to the software by my PhD supervisor. My PhD was in distributed computing and a research project focussed on distributed simulation. Simul8 provided me with multiple licenses for the Researcher edition of their software and technical support. This helped me better understand the technical aspects of the software, which was necessary for the intended purpose of distributed execution of models. My students have also continued to receive such exceptional support. Several of our received papers have used Simul8!
Pros:
Simul8 is a versatile discrete-event simulation (DES) software. It has a programming language called Visual Logic (VL). For learning and teaching and the implementation of a wide range of DES projects, the Simul8 visual interface, which supports drag and drop, is sufficient to develop fairly complex models. With VL you can do a lot more! As an educator, I continue using the software to introduce simulation to new cohorts of MSc students in Operations Management and Business Analytics. The students love it! On the research side, the MRes and PhD students I supervised have used Simul8 to develop proof-of-concept models for their Modelling and Simulation research and also full-fledged models to support decision-making. The customer support that we have received over the years is exemplary! This goes to the extent that the Simul8 representatives you meet at conferences are happy to go through the model and provide advice.
Cons:
From the education and teaching perspective, Simul8 is a perfect solution and students will love it! On the research side, if you were to develop integration with other models and modelling paradigms, it would require assistance from Simul8 technical support. With open-source software, integrating libraries and code offers many opportunities, especially for those who know coding. However, with Simul8, some additional integration work to achieve similar objectives may be needed. The software continues to evolve and this may be possible in the near future.
Thank you for your cooperation
Comments: Overall experience is simply great, whole support of MA and PhD students for their thesis.
Pros:
Quite easy to learn and understand the Simul8 environment. At the same time possibility to make advance complex models.
Cons:
Everything was fine, no cons were identified.
Alternatives Considered: Arena, AnyLogic and Simio
Reasons for Switching to SIMUL8: Great Academic Licence support allowing to support also students and teachers.
Simul8 Review
Pros:
It has some good features such as importing/exporting data via Excel easily. It provides ready to use simulation results. Visual logic is perfectly helpful for interact the simulation as user wants.
Cons:
The software always hangs while we're using/creating simulations. In addition, due to huge amount of data is imported to the software, it slogs on to process the data. The graphs display poor visualisations.
Powerful tool
Comments: A powerful tool for process simulation. While the user interface may appear outdated compared to state-of-the-art options, this doesn’t reflect its robust capabilities. Initial training is essential, and at least 120 hours of practice are necessary to become reasonably proficient in performing reliable simulations of medium complexity
Pros:
The functionality and capacity to replicate "real life scenarios" .
Cons:
The number of hours required to become proficient with the tool is reasonable. Given the variety of options and scenarios available, the trade-off between output and effort is more than acceptable
Alternatives Considered: FlexSim
Reasons for Switching to SIMUL8: Better price and industry feedback. I had a first contact with SIMUL8 in 2017.
Simul8 Review
Comments:
- active weekly usage for the last 6 years
- the team has done a great job improving the tool recently
- keep adding more and better capabilities
- drop-in sessions are great. keep them going!
- increase the price of the product but don't raise by a lot since it is hard to convince management to keep allocating budget
Pros:
- ease of use - used to be cheaper than most alternatives (which makes it easier to convince the management to allocate budget for it) - ability to use both coding (Visual Logic) and drag-drop
Cons:
- charts and visualizations - sometimes unexplained bugs happen. rebuilding the model helps - recently raised prices. it is totally ok to raise the prices especially since the product got better recently. but be careful to not raise prices to the level of FlexSim and AnyLogic. In that price category, users might prefer FlexSim/AnyLogic over Simul8
