User Guide

Each page here describes one part of desflow: what it does, how to use it, how it works and its limits. Read a page when you need that part. To learn DES and desflow from the start, follow Learn instead. To do one task step by step, see How-To.

Group	What it covers
How desflow Works	how desflow is built: the parts that run a model, why each exists, and how a run moves through them
Writing a Model	the three ways to write a model: a YAML blueprint, the builder API and the low-level API
Model Parts	the parts a model is made of: arrivals and services, input fitting, task flow, and stores and containers
Tasks and Processes	tasks, processes, the signals they wait for, and failures
Resources	priority and preemption, tasks that hold several resources, and resource types of your own
Time and Pacing	the simulation clock, pacing against real time, and how long a run lasts
Results	what a run measures, replications and experiments
Live Runs and Connectors	parameters that change during a run, and the connectors that bring changes in and write records out