A Delay Profile determines how and when Entities are delayed when they are affected by a Delay Point. They are used to model temporal elements such as the time taken to be serviced at ticket machines or the length of time passengers spend inside a store.

As well as specifying a delay period, you can also define at which time over the course of a simulation, this delay period is effective. For example, you can create a Delay Profile which delays Entities for 12 seconds but is only active for a certain ten minute period of the simulation.

You can set a profile which endures throughout the whole length of the simulation, or one that is effective at different periods of the simulation. You can also specify whether a delay is fixed, whether it applies until a certain simulation time or whether it varies.