Creating a Pause Activity

This procedure describes how to add a pause activity to a simulation.
This pause occurs during the simulation and continues until the user selects the Run, Jump to beginning, Step forward (to beginning or end) buttons on the Process Simulation pop-up toolbar.

A pause requires you to take an action to recommence the simulation. The need for user intervention differentiates a pause from a delay, which occurs for a user-specified time.

  1. Click Pause  from the Simulation Activity Creation toolbar.

    The Activity Creation Options dialog box appears asking where to place the pause activity.

  2. Select the location for the activity and click OK.
When running the simulation, the simulation halts when it gets to the end of the pause activity.  The activity becomes highlighted: 
And a message window appears:
To continue the simulation, select a button (e.g., Run, Jump to beginning, Step forward, etc.) from the Process Simulation pop-up toolbar.
Generally, pause activities have a duration of 0 (i.e., the start time equals the end time), so the practical effects of when the pause starts are not noticeable.  However, if the pause activity occurs in parallel with other activities, the concurrent activities begin before the pause activity halts the simulation.