Getting started
Install ProcessModel, get to know the workspace, and build your first working model.
- How ProcessModel Improves ProcessesHow ProcessModel helps you improve a process: model it, run it, find the bottlenecks, and test changes before you make them for real.
- What is ProcessModelWhat ProcessModel is: process simulation software to model, run, and improve a process before changing it.
- Model ElementsThe building blocks of a ProcessModel model: entities, activities, queues, resources, routes, and more, dragged from the palette onto the canvas.
- Industry palettes and the lensThe industry palette adds curated elements for one industry. The Software and Emergency Department faces go further as lenses: they rename the fields and relabel the report without changing the arithmetic.
- System RequirementsThe hardware and Windows requirements to install and run the current version of ProcessModel.
- The Welcome screenThe first screen ProcessModel shows: start a new model, pick up a recent one, open Settings and What's New, and see how your license stands.
- PM AI BridgeLet your own AI app on this computer read, change and run your models in ProcessModel, with a four step setup and a Take control button that hands the model back at any time.
- SettingsChoose the canvas aids, light or dark display and currency symbol, turn on PM AI Bridge, show the Learning Hints again, and reset your preferences.
- Navigating the canvasFind your way around the modeling canvas with the minimap, alignment guides, and auto-framing, and tidy your layout from the Arrange menu.
- The Fastest Way to Build a ModelThe quickest ways to a working ProcessModel model: start from a sample, draw it on the canvas, import an existing model, or have your own AI app build it.
- Demo ModelsReady-to-run example models grouped by industry, each built around a real bottleneck. Open one and run it straight away.
- Starting, opening and saving modelsStart a new model, open a saved or recent one, and save a model as a .pmd file, with what ProcessModel asks before it replaces the open model.
- Import legacy models and Visio drawingsImport a model package from the earlier version of ProcessModel or a Visio drawing. See what each kind brings and what is listed before anything is added.
- Import RecipePaste a formula and its ordered operations, map the columns, answer what the recipe cannot state, and build a working model from it.
- Why Variability MattersWhy variation, not averages, drives queues and delays, and how ProcessModel models it with distributions and replications.
- Best Practices for Model BuildingPractical habits that make a ProcessModel model faster to build and easier to trust: get the flow right first, animate, add detail in layers, and validate.
- What to Collect for a ModelWhat to gather before you build a model: the goal, the flow, resources, times, and arrivals.
- Annotations and labelsPlace text labels, shapes and images on the canvas in Annotation mode, put them in front of or behind the model, and align a label's text.
- Find and ReplaceSearch a model by name to jump to any shape or annotation, and rename shapes, routes and labels one at a time or all at once.
- Keyboard shortcutsEvery keyboard shortcut for the canvas: the ones shown in the menus, the ones that are in no menu, and the keys for annotations, runs and Demo Models.
- PrintPrint your model to a PDF file or to a printer, with a live preview that shows exactly where the page breaks fall.
- Protect ModelLock a model with a password so it cannot be opened without one, or hand out a copy that can be run but not changed. Includes what happens if the password is lost.
- BackupsProcessModel keeps timed copies of the models you work on. Open the Backups window to take one, browse what has been kept, and bring a model back.
- PM SoterixPM Soterix is a shared model library with governance: publish models, control who is changing them, classify them, and get a change approved before it becomes the version everyone uses.
- License and activationActivate ProcessModel on a computer, check what is active and for how long, move a license between machines, and sign out.
- Tutorial VideosVideo tutorials that take you from process-simulation basics to advanced techniques in ProcessModel.
- Updates, About and helpCheck for a new version, see which version you have in About, open help from the Help menu, and read what is new after an update.
- ChangelogA version-by-version history of ProcessModel releases, features, and fixes.