SAS Simulation Studio 1.6

SAS Simulation Studio is a graphical application that enables you to build, run, and analyze discrete event simulation models. Application areas include retail, customer service, health care, transportation, and many other industries. The graphical user interface of SAS Simulation Studio provides extensive modeling tools suitable for both novice and advanced simulation users.

In SAS/OR 9.3, SAS Simulation Studio 1.6 provides the following enhancements:

  • support for the 64-bit Windows platform along with the 32-bit Windows platform support it has always offered

  • improved features and usability:

    • a new set of icons for all blocks

    • new graphics technology for graphical display blocks (bar charts, scatter plots, histograms, and so on)

    • cut-and-paste capabilities to aid in replicating sections of models

    • a new Snapshot feature that provides a scaled-down view of the entire model, which can be used to navigate to sections of interest in larger models that extend beyond the boundaries of one monitor screen

  • enhanced ability to work with data and generate samples from probability distributions. You can now sample from nonhomogeneous Poisson processes and empirical distributions (discrete and continuous). Integration with JMP® distribution-fitting capabilities is tighter than in previous releases: you can now select a candidate fitted distribution from JMP software and with one click transmit the distribution and parameter settings back to the appropriate Numeric Source block in SAS Simulation Studio.

  • new blocks:

    • The Observation Source block enables you to sample an entire observation from a source data set in a single step; this is useful when many variables from the same data set are used in a simulation model.

    • The Dataset Writer block, when signaled to do so, saves data collected during a simulation model run to a specified location.

    • The Dataset Holder block also receives data collected during a simulation model run but makes the data available for queries during the same run.

    • The Stopper block enables you to create a signal that immediately stops a simulation model run and can also trigger the saving of key simulation data near or at the end of the simulation model run.

    • The Stat Collector block enables you to collect time-persistent statistics and values.

  • access to SAS software (to run SAS programs during or after a simulation model run) not only on the local PC but also on a remote SAS server