Essential Training for ExtendSim

Accelerate your success with ExtendSim by learning proven modeling techniques directly from experienced simulation professionals. Whether you're new to simulation or looking to become more productive with ExtendSim, this hands-on course provides the practical skills and confidence needed to build, analyze, and communicate simulation results.

From your first session, you'll create and run models while learning industry best practices for simulation design, model validation, data management, debugging, experimentation, and results analysis. Through guided exercises and realistic case studies, you'll see how ExtendSim can be applied to solve complex operational and business challenges

The Essential Training course provides the practical foundation needed to apply simulation effectively in real-world projects and quickly become productive with ExtendSim.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for:

• New ExtendSim users.
• Engineers and analysts responsible for process improvement.
• Supply chain, manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics professionals.
• Managers who need to evaluate system performance and alternatives.
• Beginning and intermediate simulation modelers.
• Anyone who wants to learn simulation modeling using real-world examples and hands-on exercises.

Topics include:

• Understanding fundamental simulation concepts.
• Modeling with ExtendSim.
• Working with data.
• Learning debugging, validation, and verification techniques.
• Model analysis.
• And much, much more.

Online Instructor-Led Essential ExtendSim Courses

The online course covers the same content as the 4-day In-Person Essentials workshop, but in an online instructor-led class through GoToMeeting™. You’ll learn the basics of discrete event simulation plus get an essential understanding of the ExtendSim architecture.

The US based online course consists of nine 1.5 to 2 hour sessions over the course of 2+ weeks plus an optional one-on-one post-course session. Sessions will be held Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays throughout the 2 week training course beginning at 3pm EDT/UTC-4. The ninth session, held on the third Monday, will review concepts covered in the course and answer any remaining questions.

Homework assignments will be given on most days so attendees can practice concepts covered in class, plus a couple of case studies will be assigned each week to be completed outside of class time. It will be expected that each student plan to spend 1 to 2 hours outside of class each day completing assigned homework to fully comprehend the material.

The Australia based online course is comparable to the In-Person Essential ExtendSim course, but is presented in 4 full days via Zoom by Authorized ExtendSim Trainer Insight Acumen. For more details and registration information for the Australia based course, see the Insight Acumen site.

Prerequisites and Preparation for the Course

Basic Windows computer skills and a knowledge of basic statistics (random distributions and confidence intervals) is recommended.

Before your first day of class, it will be extremely helpful if you familiarize yourself with ExtendSim. If you have not already done so, please go through the Tutorials in the Discrete Event Quick Start Guide or watch its video.

For the online course, be sure you have a Model Developer Edition of ExtendSim Pro installed on your computer. If you have not yet purchased and activated ExtendSim, you may use the Trial version. Just be careful not to begin your Trial period with the software any earlier than the week before the online course begins as you only have 30 days in your Trial period.

Included with the Course

Course manual with case studies.

Solution files for all course-based case studies and exercises.

Book of additional case studies with solutions for post-course practice.

Certificate of Completion.

Plus, if you have a few more questions within the first year after completing this course, you qualify for a free online coaching session from your trainer.