•You are limited to 25 blocks connected on a worksheet when you create a new simulation or model with the demo; however, you can use and work with any of the models already on the demo disk.
•Any changes to existing simulation worksheets cannot be saved, and you cannot save new simulations.
•You can create new blocks, hierarchical blocks, and libraries of blocks (the components of a simulation), and these can be saved. See the ModL™ language and function help topics, etc.
See the "Extend - General Usage" help topic for more info about using the demo.
Please feel free to copy and distribute this demo.
• PRICING
Extend™ 3.1 is $695.00.
Extend+BPR™ 3.1 is $990.00.
Extend+Manufacturing™ 3.1 is $990.00.
plus shipping and sales tax where applicable. Educational discounts are available as well as site and lab licenses. Please contact Imagine That! for information.
• Ordering/Support: dealer or direct.
• Free technical support is available when you purchase Extend, Extend+Manufacturing, or Extend+BPR.
System Requirements:
Macintosh
System 6.0.7 or greater; 4MB RAM (8MB recommended).
Windows PC (386+)
Windows 3.1, NT, or 95; 4MB RAM (8MB recommended).
• ABOUT EXTEND™:
Put simulation power on your desktop
Extend graphically simulates and validates your ideas quickly and easily...no matter what type or how complex of a theory, process, or system you have imagined! Extend combines the most powerful features of advanced simulation systems into one package. Extend has a flexible iconic user interface, expandable libraries of reusable blocks, hierarchy, animation, a built-in authoring environment, sensitivity analysis, Excel interfacing, and more.
The ultimate brainstorming tool
An Extend model (simulation) consists of a series of interconnected blocks which can be changed in seconds. Extensive libraries of pre-defined blocks make model building fast and easy. You can add blocks to your model, connect them with the mouse, then run the simulation to achieve graphical and tabular results. Extend makes it easy to try out your new ideas, and get answers quickly.
"What if..."
Extend users readily model continuous, discrete event, and mixed-mode systems. Versatility is built in, so you can create your own blocks, or customize any of the standard blocks. Extend's flexibility solves real world problems and is used for "what if..." analyses in every field, from engineering to business, electronics to science, etc.
Libraries
The basic Extend package includes the Generic (general purpose & business), Discrete Event (queues, networks and material flow), Engineering (Electronics, Filter, Digital), and Plotter libraries (for displaying results in real time).
• EXTEND+MANUFACTURING™:
To model discrete operations research, industrial engineering, and manufacturing systems, use Extend+Manufacturing. This bundled package combines Extend with two specialized libraries of blocks (Manufacturing and Statistics), an additional manual, and numerous examples.
Extend+Manufacturing allows you to model manufacturing systems, paper flow, material handling, service industries, networks, manufacturing systems, information processing, distribution systems, transportation, etc. It is an excellent tool to use to analyze options, predict bottlenecks, document operating procedures, and justify costs.
• The Extend+Manufacturing manual provides an extensive number of examples, concepts, and alternative approaches. It reviews resources and operations, closed and open systems, attributes, priorities and values, merging and routing streams of items or entities, setting processing time, joining items for processing, scheduling, routing decisions, choosing parallel operations, bringing a system on-line, shutting down operations, accumulating data, and more. To complement the examples in the manual, the +Manufacturing disk comes with over 1MB of example models to parallel the discussion in the manual.
• This package also contains a free Statistics library! Statistics blocks accumulate and report statistical information for particular types of blocks in discrete event models: activities, queues, or resources. In addition to the block label, block name, and the time the information was observed, each of the blocks report statistics that are specific to their type of block, such as utilization or average wait time.
About Extend+BPR (Business Process Reengineering)
Apply systems analysis techniques to TQM and process improvement efforts with Extend+BPR. This bundled package combines Extend with two specialized libraries of blocks (BPR and Statistics), an additional manual, and numerous examples.
Extend+BPR allows you to model organizational change, analyze new processes for technology insertion, and provide metrics for strategic planning. It is an excellent tool to perform cross-functional analysis of business processes, measure performance, manage just-in-time scheduling, improve marketing positioning, and contain costs.
• The BPR library contains blocks that resemble familiar flow charting symbols and represent personnel, measurement, operations, decisions, repositories, transactions, etc.
• The Extend+BPR manual provides an extensive number of examples, concepts, and alternative approaches. It reviews each block's function and applies it to real world usage. The +BPR disk comes with numerous example models which parallel the discussion in the manual.
• This package also contains a free Statistics library! Statistics blocks accumulate and report statistical information for particular types of blocks in discrete event models: activities, queues, or resources. In addition to the block label, block name, and the time the information was observed, each of the blocks report statistics that are specific to their type of block, such as utilization or average wait time.
For more information about Extend, please contact:
Imagine That, Inc.
6830 Via Del Oro, Suite 230
San Jose, CA 95119 USA
Phone: 408-365-0305 FAX: 408-629-1251
Extend and Imagine That! are trademarks of Imagine That, Inc. Other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
