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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/simul8-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/simul8-profile/alternatives/) # SIMUL8 User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 142 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.9/5 - Value for money: 4.5/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 89 reviews (63%) - 4 stars: 46 reviews (32%) - 3 stars: 6 reviews (4%) - 2 stars: 1 reviews (1%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - This simulator makes it possible to analyze different types of processes, services, and production to measure the key indicators and make decisions before carrying out any investment. - It's a friendly dashboard and analyssis tools that We can explore for simulaion, for modeling until for forecasting - We are working in a niche field with a lot of variables, yet we can still utilize Simul8 to its full extent to test real life scenarios. ### Most mentioned cons - I also found the labelling system not as effective as the codified attribute system in Witness, making it harder to change objects moving through the simulation. - I am an operations manager with a background in process improvement and business analysis, but not able to devote as much time or coding skill to master this as quickly as I would have liked. - The graphics are not quite as elaborate as some other packages, but those packages are more expensive. ## SIMUL8 customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 142 (page 1). ### We see Simul8 is a collaborator in teaching and research - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Navonil M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered 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! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### The best software to simulate discrete manufacturing processes simulation - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Shayan M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Textiles - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have a positive experience with Simul8. My final thoughts are:-If you are an engineer in a corporation and want to simulate discrete processes I absolutely recommend using simul8 over any other product in the market-If you are a freelancer or a simulation firm working for clients, this may not be the best choice for you. Either go for Anylogic, Simio, or Flexsim since they give you 3D capabilities #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have used Arena, Anylogic, and Simio prior to moving to simul8. I believe simul8 is the best option for 90% of users if you want to simulate discrete event processes. The main advantages of simul8 are:1) Extremely easy and intuitive2) Online trainings are helpful and set you up for success. You don't really need to google for majority of your needs3) Very affordable compare to other software that are usually +$20k per user. Simul8 costs only $5k / user Most importantly, based on my past experience you don't need a 3d simulation in your projects to communicate with stakeholders since they don't care about how beautiful your simulation is. Usually they don't even care how it looks!They only want results and recommendations. They know their processes very well and simulation is just a tool to help them make better decisions. So save your many and don't purchase an expensive software because they provide 3d visuals. Simul8 is the only tool you need if you are about to do discrete event simulation. #### Cons Simul8 has weakness in two areas:1) Charts are very old school. They remind you of Window 98. They are good enough for yourself, but if you want to have them in your presentation I recommend exporting the data and using excel.2) All features are somewhere in properties and tabs. You need take your time to learn where they are and this takes time if you are simulating complex processes #### Reasons for switching to SIMUL8 Two reasons1) Simul8 is 5 times more affordable than Anylogic2) stakeholders don't care about visuals and 3d models. They only care about recommendations and simul8 is powerful enough to model 90% of discrete event processes --- ### Great support staff. But poor documentation. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Iris O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Administration - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 1/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I value the availability of the support chat function. The support staff are very forthcoming and helpful. #### Cons I need to use the visual logic functionality for most of my modelling. But the documentation for this is lacking. Comprehensive documentation, tutorials and documented examples would improve the experience significantly. The VL interface is also quite frustrating as compared to normal programming languages. Finding commands is difficult, and the use of the interface is not intuitive. #### Reasons for switching to SIMUL8 The graphical visualisation of simul8 is more attractive to clients. #### Vendor response Hi Iris, Thank you for taking the time to write a review, user feedback is so important for helping us improve. We originally replied back in 2020, we wanted to follow up again as we've made improvements in the areas you suggested improvements. Firstly the Visual Logic editor has had a major update. Yourself and other users wanted us to make it completely free type like other programme editors you use. We've now done this, so you can type freely with no verification getting in the way. To help beginner users we've kept the line validation but moved it to a separate mode. So now all users can have VL behave as suits them. In terms of documentation we've since introduced Simul8 Academy and have introduced a range of new examples for Visual Logic. We'll keep adding to this bank each week so it will grow as a resource. Again, thank you for the feedback. It has been invaluable and directly inputted to our product development. Thank you. Frances Sneddon CTO, Simul8 Replied September 2022 --- ### Versatile software for trialing and optimization healthcare processes - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: John F. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We have been able to model several different clinical scenarios in our facility: post-acute care units, outpatient clinic patient flows, and vaccination clinics. We have also been able to optimize schedules to best meet demand by using the OptQuest interface. Building these processes in Simul8 and testing different configurations has saved us many weeks of PDSA trial-and-error testing in the real unit, allowing us to move much more quickly to ideal improvements. This has made our patient experience more pleasant and allowed our staff to focus more on patient care delivery. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Building process flows, decision points, distributions, and timings is intuitive. Data visualization tools allow you to see an analyze input and output variables and make reasoned conclusions. Integration with OptQuest can find ideal solutions, saving a lot of trial and error guesswork. #### Cons Some of the more advanced features require specific coding syntax that takes time to learn. However, once you get the syntax down, it's powerful. It just takes a little time to get over the learning curve. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 Simul8 had more features relevant to modeling process flows in healthcare. Arena works well in industrial modeling (as does Simul8), but not quite as well in modeling the variability in healthcare. #### Reasons for switching to SIMUL8 Simul8 had more features relevant to modeling process flows in healthcare. Arena works well in industrial modeling (as does Simul8), but not quite as well in modeling the variability in healthcare. --- ### World Class Simulation Software and Customer Support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Thomas L. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: February 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered An additional note on the consultant we worked with, not only is he thoroughly competent and knowledgeable about the Simul8 software features and functionalities, he was quite fun to work with and a great conversationalist. Simul8 clearly recruits great talent, both on a personal and professional level. Overall - Simul8 has been great to do business with and well worth the investment! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The software is very user friendly and the Simul8 consulting team is one of a kind. Our team had the majority of the model set up and ready configure within the first 2-3 weeks. We ran some test to see if the model was working properly before engaging with the internal consulting team, and we were able to do so with minimal effort - the software is quite intuitive. The configuration of the model did take some time, as our process is quite complex, but the consultant we worked with was a great resource and helped us get our model running accounting for all of our process specifics. An additional note on the consultant we worked with, not only is he thoroughly competent and knowledgeable about the Simul8 software features and functionalities, he was quite fun to work with and a great conversationalist. Simul8 clearly recruits great talent, both on a personal and professional level. Overall - Simul8 has been great to do business with and well worth the investment! #### Cons There are no cons about the software that we wish to report at this time. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 It's user friendliness and reasonable cost. AnyLogic was much more expensive and much less user friendly so Simul8 was a no brainer. --- ### Simul8 - Initial outlook - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Oliver D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Aviation & Aerospace - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very positive. The system is easy to use and the models I have created already (although on the simpler side) have allowed me to identify how to tackle complex problems. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simul8 is quite an intuitive software where models of processes can be readily made and adequately detailed without prolonged training. The user interface means that the system can quickly be understood and interpreted to complete tasks of increased difficulties. #### Cons I was using the 2004 version which had little support in creating neat simulation models in the workspace, this often meant I had to spend time to create a clear simulation by dragging boxes and lines. I also found the labelling system not as effective as the codified attribute system in Witness, making it harder to change objects moving through the simulation. #### Reasons for switching to SIMUL8 This system seems to have better toolbars ad a more structured was of interpreting the active / passive cells. However the attribute data in witness seems to be more powerful. --- ### Simul8 to sell - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Grace M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have worked hard to learn and understand it. Constantly changing what i use and how i use it. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Being able to prove to a customer that our conveyor system would work and to show any issues and changes that we would need to make. #### Cons Moving images and uploading your own small images for the activity icons would be good. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 I dont have experience with coding or software and simul8 doesn't need that as much. ( i haven't coded anything). --- ### Easy way of simulation - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Bruno S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience is very good, and is important to note that there is a free license for students which is an amazing opportunity. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simul8 is very easy and intuitive to implement my system and convert in a simulation, based on LCD´s and the final DCA. All the work items are easy to introduce and connect between them, which saves a lot of time and reduce the probability of errors. #### Cons The Simul8 is amazing but still can improve regarding the graphics. In fact, still use pixels items which reduced the probability to present a Simul8 system during a pitch or professional report. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 Alternatives can be excel, where you must make everything by hand. --- ### Easy, fast, and powerful simulations. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ben V. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall experience has been great. I have shared this tool with many other sites in Plexus as well as other non-competitive companies as a great asset. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The best part about Simul8 is how easy it is to pick up. I have easily trained many people how to become powerful users in a short time period to where they can create customer level simulations. #### Cons There are very few minor flaws in the software that are very industry specific. None that are worth mentioning due to insignificance. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 The price, ease to learn, and quickness to build were unmatched. Other simulations focused too much on aesthetics. --- ### Powerful simulation program with an incredible support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Stella J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Marketing and Advertising - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used other for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2020 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Simul8 provides extensive tools to create simulations and meets our needs about visual representation of the data. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simul8 is probably the the most comprehensive yet easiest to explore simulation creation program in the market. User interface is highly optimized to enable the user reflect the paper version of the model to the visual graph. #### Cons Simul8 has great 2D visualization tools however it fails when it comes to 3D visualization requirements. #### Reasons for switching to SIMUL8 Simul8's visulization tools were much more stronger. --- ### Easy to use software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ibrahim K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Building models simulating the manufacturing plant environment inculing assembly lines and production models #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The user friendly interface and to build the models quickly and intuitively #### Cons There is actually not a thing that I can say I do not like but maybe there could be flexibilities that two resources can be simultaneously assigned to a product in parallel two sided assembly lines --- ### SIMUL8 Initial Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ron M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall, using SIMUL8 to build trial simulations has been great and very easy to use. Learning the basics is easy, especially if you have previous knowledge of the foundations of discrete event simulations. Although I shared criticisms of the 'availability' of information for more complex modelling, I would like to comment that this is addressed by the level of responsiveness and support provided by SIMUL8 after purchase. When I had 'what if' questions with SIMUL8 or if I was looking to see if a particular modelling characteristic is possible, their help email is responsive (usually less than a day to respond) and detailed. They will work with you on recommendations on specific aspects of your simulations that you may have a question on. There are also forums that they provide for their users such as drop-in sessions where examples are shared by their consultants, which usually includes a question and answer period. Of course, their support team isn't going to build your simulations for you, but having a post-purchase support team that is able to answer complex questions through multiple forums (emails, drop in sessions) is extremely valuable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Although SIMUL8 has not been used in a formal project, I will comment on the positives of the solution in the context of building trial simulations of areas in a healthcare setting. Previously, I built basic queuing model through spreadsheets. This was time consuming and limited to the basic pathways. In addition, it was difficult to build pathways which required resources or loops. It was night and day going from so much manual work to SIMUL8. From my experience, SIMUL8 has made building straight forward simulations, assigning resources and timing very easy. I would estimate multi stage queuing models now take me an hour to build, whereas formulation on a spreadsheet would have taken multiple days. Most of the software for simple modelling is quite intuitive - especially the basic building blocks. The other aspect that I enjoy with SIMUL8 is the built in statistical distribution tests through STAT:FIT. A major component of discrete event simulation is data availability and identification of the best distributions. Having built it into SIMUL8 makes it seamless to import data, test for best distribution, and enter the information into SIMUL8. The last aspect I would like to comment on as it relates to SIMUL8 isn't actually related to the software itself; rather the post-purchase support provided by the SIMUL8 team. As someone fairly new to using discrete event simulation software, I appreciate the responsiveness and detail provided by the help team to my questions. #### Cons Most of the 'downsides' of the software I found isn't with the software itself, but the availability of information for new users. It would be helpful if the software came with a formal user manual or document. Although new users have access to SIMUL8 academy, the courseware does not cover all basic topics, so one would have to actively look for the information online on the SIMUL8 website. There is also minimal information or examples that is readily available around modelling more complex scenarios when one is more comfortable with SIMUL8. This information may or may not be on the SIMUL8 website. An example is the use of job matrix when resources aren't limited to one work stations or activity. This is a common occurrence in healthcare so having this taught as part of SIMUL8 academy would have been helpful. --- ### SIMUL8–A must have tool - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Joshua K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We use Simul8 to solve complex problems for our clients in healthcare, manufacturing and service industry. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It’s easy to use. Everything about the software is excellent. Each year there are awesome updates to the software, adding new features to put the power of simulation in the hands of users. #### Cons There is nothing l do not like about the software. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 I was introduced to different simulation softwares at school and Simul8 was easier to use and increased my confidence with using simulation to solve business processes issues. Simul8 is a tool l will not trade in for any other software out there. --- ### Simul8 Review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Harry B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Government Relations - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Initially, the product wasn't easy to use, as the variety of features made it hard to remember what each feature could do. However, as I gained in familiarity, the software become really easy to use and navigate around. The varied features allowed discrete event simulation modelling to be done with ease, and include significant levels of detail. The ability to record/ store results in simul8, at a very granular level, and then export them to Excel made the analysis of the model thorough and comprehensive. #### Cons Lack of available examples of Visual Logic coding online made it hard for me to do my work. I had to use simul8 support, which were very helpful. However, if more information was available online, I think this would benefit the wider community, and release strain on simul8 support. --- ### Simul8 Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Farid T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Glass, Ceramics & Concrete - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered - 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 #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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 #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 because the old price and benefit ratio for Simul8 was the best for us. the tool was cheap and offered the capabilities we needed. lack of 3D in Simul8 was not a problem for us. --- ### SIMUL8 for healthcare use - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Scot A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The tool is great for modeling and addressing process throughput and constraint troubleshooting and forecasting. The SIMUL8 support team is also responsive and knowledgable. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Creating initial models in SIMUL8 is very easy - like Visio on steroids. Once we got the flow parameters of the processes we were simulating, the current state model was built in hours, not days or weeks. Doing what-if adjustments and scenarios in cycle times etc to test future state is relatively easy. The model scenarios show 2 critical things very quickly; the points of constraint in the process, and the ability to meet end to end process throughput goals. #### Cons Would be great if the multiple scenario adjustments for future state modeling & results could be tried and recorded in more rapid fire/automated fashion. That would allow for quicker optimizing of future process throughput/cost etc. Another helpful tool enhancement would be to install SIMUL8 on top of current enterprise software platforms (ie. SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, etc) to monitor and record activity timing that would auto-create the current state SIMUL8 model. This is very sophisticated, I realize. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 All the positives above. --- ### Simul8: engaging, intuitive and interactive simulation modelling - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: William T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Simul8 allows for simulation models to be developed quickly and efficiently, due to the fact the interface and features are easy to use. My experience using Simul8 live in workshop settings in particular has been valuable - due to the ability to develop the simulations in an interactive and engaging manner. Further, the 1-to-1 coaching that Simul8 provide is brilliant - the coaches are very flexible, engaging and friendly, and really go the extra mile to support your development . #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Simul8 delivered the most value through the ability to build complex models with an intuitive and easy to use interface. This ensured that different simulation scenarios could be run quickly and with confidence live in a workshop setting. Various parameters of the simulation can be rapidly flexed, such as resource numbers, shift patterns, process timings, etc. In turn, this allows for simulation modelling to be engaging and interactive, as well as effective in terms of delivering an accurate model with informative and pertinent results. #### Cons As someone with no prior knowledge or experience in coding, I initially found it a challenge to get to grips with the Visual Logic code. However, after a few hours getting to grips with it, the language is actually quite intuitive, and more similar to excel commands in the way that it is used. Also, there is a sidebar that allows you to search for every command and provides a definition for what the respective command/Visual logic code does. --- ### An SME using SIMUL8 in the Airports sector - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Airlines/ Aviation - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very positive. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The people behind SIMUL8 want to help and get you to achieve what you want from SIMUL8. #### Cons It is quite expensive for an SME to purchase, maintain and learn. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 Wanted my own models. Other products ridiculously expensive. --- ### Simul8 for eCom fulfillment - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Steve H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I am making heavy use to the VL capability. Most of my Activities have an attached VL routine. I am simulating Robots and Operators in pick aisles using WMS simulated pick lists. Testing Optimization algorithms for efficient Robot travel, Operator travel, and Robot "swarming" to meet Operators at a pick face. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very flexible, fast, user friendly, and intuitive. #### Cons A little buggy. Crashes several times a week. Memory overflow seems to be the biggest cause. Also, multi Activity changes can cause crashes. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 Functionality and price. #### Vendor response Thanks for the great review! A member of our team will be in touch so we can look into your valued feedback. Replied June 2021 --- ### Powerful and intuitive - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Philippe B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2019 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I used SIMUL8 mainly in the healthcare sector. I may have done in the last 5 years approximately ten projects, big and small. I also use SIMUL8 with my students to teach operations management. SIMUL8 is powerful because it is fast but also because it is intuitive. This makes the results of a simulation easy to explain to customers that are not familiar with simulation. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The pros: The software is intuitive and easy-to-use. It has all the features to simulate complex organizations. I have been using it regularly since 2014. SIMUL8 is constantly being improved and users are involved in setting priorities for new developments. The SIMUL8 team offers excellent support. They have engineers experienced in all types of industries. In the field for which I mainly work (health care), I have always found all the support I needed for my projects. I have tested other simulation software and can confirm that SIMUL8 is powerful, well designed and robust. Its cost (license and maintenance) is very competitive compared to other simulation software. #### Cons 3D animation is not the strength of SIMUL8, but the 3D animation features offered by SIMUL8 are more than enough to test, debug and present the simulation results to customers. 3D animation is not the most important feature of a simulation program. Simulation speed and presentation of results are essential and SIMUL8 is fast and provides results that are easy to manage and interpret. --- ### Discrete Event Simulation in Civil Service - very helpful - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Civic & Social Organization - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Very helpful for facilitating Discreet Event Simulation Modelling, particularly for sharing with stakeholders. Sometimes a little slow and glitches do seem to appear, although this could just be me. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros Ability to label work items and visually show how they move through a system. Incredibly helpful Customer Service from [SENSITIVE CONTENT] following a bootcamp. #### Cons Slow to extract raw data from and glitches. #### Vendor response Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. It's greatly appreciated as it helps us improve. You said you found it slow to extract raw data from the simulation. We're currently developing a new feature to extract transaction logs of simulation data with just a few clicks. It'd be great to speak with you to get your feedback and share our beta versions with you. If you'd like to get involved please email support@Simul8.com and they'll link you up with our Product Development team. And thank you for your positive feedback on our customer service - our team are awesome - we're incredibly proud of them! Replied September 2022 --- ### "What If" analysis beyond Microsoft Excel - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Vineet D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Retail - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered We wanted to model our mechanized warehouse investments and thus have started to introduce the value of simulation and so far the feedback from the leadership has been "interesting, very interesting, let's see how we can use this..." #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros SIMUL8 has enough intuitive configuration based features coupled with visual logic that I spent most of time building the model as opposed to learning the tool. Given how quickly, I was able to setup my model meant that I soon found myself using step through logic features like "work item tracking" to validate the results my model was generating. #### Cons The share feature is a great way to engage others but the 1 week limit is a bit short - the base default should be longer. #### Reasons for choosing SIMUL8 Cloud based - instant access, although I use the desktop version (as it is faster). Visual logic capability gave me confidence that we could model almost any setup. Share feature so models become more accessible and not a "tech" thing. #### Vendor response Vineet, thank you so much for taking the time to write a review! We're delighted to hear you found our software easy to learn and spend most of your time building your model not learning our software - that's exactly what we want! Currently the share time is 7 days. We will pass your feedback to our products team that you'd like it to be longer. Meanwhile, you can re-share the same simulation again for another 7 days as often as you need. Again, thank you for taking the time to write a review, its greatly appreciated. Replied September 2022 --- ### User Feedback - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Pranav G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros 1. Ability to visualize results, KPIs in Result Manager 2. Ability to export results easily 3. Ability to have Visual Logic code at one place 4. Built in plot features e.g. Utilization, Contents #### Cons 1. Hangs/Crashes a lot if the simulation input data is huge 2. Takes huge time loading (on every click) if simulation input data is huge 3. Visual logic needs experience (unlike java or other commonly used languages) 4. The resource-pool size value changes after optimisation experiment is run 5. Their is no direct way to plot utilization for activities that have replications (>0) --- ### Simulation for Pre-op Clinic Redesign - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Remy G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall it was great and will definitely be using when designing or redesigning hospital space in the future. I'll be moving to a new hospital and leading a team in the new year and will definitely be keeping this software in mind for use there! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros My colleague drafted up various designs for remodeling our Pre-op clinic and was able to walk us through the pros and cons in a number of variables like patient wait time, count of patients waiting, anticipated overtime for clinic staff etc. It was great to be able to have this software to simulation redesigns like this. My past simulation experience is with Arena which was clunky in comparison and not as user friendly when setting up simulation designs as seen with my colleagues setup. #### Cons The reporting functionality was good but it looked like my colleague would have to manually add items to show up on the report as opposed to just providing all the information. This is really if I have to pick one con, it wasn't a big inconvenience. --- ### SIMUL7 Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Rajkumar k. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: May 2023 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience with this software is excellent. it helps me to improve my skills and knowledge of the work. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The learning curve is low. All of the modeling choices are standard and simple to explain to executives. Once you've got your simulation running well, you can go really fancy with it thanks to the scripting language. #### Cons The lagging of time and simulation is the least point about the software. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/collaboration/simul8-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- SIMUL8 Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice