ReliaSim Guides —
Throughput, Explained Properly
Practical explanations of the things that decide throughput on a real line — written for the people who have to defend the number in a meeting.
Asset Efficiency vs OEE
The two can agree within 1% on a 24/7 line and differ by 30 points on a one-shift line. The denominator decides it, not the model.
Read the guide → ThroughputHow Big Should a Buffer Be?
A buffer never makes a line faster; it only buys time. The decoupling arithmetic, and why the curve has a knee much earlier than people expect.
Read the guide → DiagnosticsStarved vs Blocked
Both look like a stopped machine and have opposite causes. The real bottleneck is the machine that is neither.
Read the guide → ModelingAccumulating vs Non-Accumulating Conveyors
One moves material, the other moves and holds it. Pick wrong and your line looks either far more fragile or far more forgiving than it is.
Read the guide → DiagnosticsFind the Real Bottleneck
The busiest machine is rarely the constraint. How to locate the step that actually limits output.
Read the guide →Looking for product reference instead — menus, file formats, node parameters? That lives in the ReliaSim documentation.