Cycle-time lets you generate and collect a bunch of useful metrics about the amount of time that material spends "in process", or moving through a conserved flow chain. These metrics can be helpful in a lot of modeling contexts. Specifically, cycle-time metrics can be valuable when you're engaged in process re-engineering or process improvement. The clear, unambiguous cycle-time metrics the software gives you can help both to diagnose process problems and to test and evaluate any proposed alternatives.
The topics in this section tell you about cycle-time functionality. It's divided into three parts:
Cycle-Time Concepts gives an overview of the cycle-time concepts incorporated into the software.
Incorporating Cycle-Time into Models walks you through a simple process for putting cycle-time into a model. Along the way, this section gives an overview of the Builtin cycle-time functions.
Cycle-Time Rules details the "rules" of cycle-time, for a main chain with multiple flows and for a Sub-model, with a brief discussion on the changes in internal calculations that happen when cycle-time is brought into play.
Each cycle-time Builtin function is documented in detail in Cycle-time builtins, in the Builtins section.