2.3.1.4 Process Designer Study

Process Designer study is an essential element for the simulation of the designed digital factory in Process Simulate. A study contains a workplace design with its layout and object placements. You can create any number of study in a project.

Creating New StudyFolder and New Study Node in the StudyFolder

A Process Designer study can only be saved in a Study Folder. Therefore, before you can create a study, it is essential that you create a Study Folder first in the project structure.

1. Select the project node in the Navigation Tree.
2. Open the New dialog window using one of the following steps:
   • Select Edit > New from the menu bar,
   • Right-click the selected node and select New from the context menu,
   • Click the New button on the toolbar.
3. Check the box StudyFolder and click OK.

After you created the Study Folder you can create new study node as children of the Study Folder.

1. Select the Study Folder node in the Navigation Tree
2. Open the New dialog window using one of the following steps:
   • Select Edit > New from the menu bar,
   • Right-click the selected node and select New from the context menu,
   • Click the New button on the toolbar.
3. The New dialog window with a list of available study types appears. Select one or more study types and click OK.

Figure: New Study from StudyFolder

Save Scenario in a Study

Instead of creating a new study file with the described option above, you can also use the Save As or Save Scenario command to create and save a new study. This option is also recommended to create a new study instead of the previous option, because the new study created is independent of type. The Save As command saves the engineering data from the current session, such as objects position or mount information, to a selected study. After the data has been saved, if you load the study again within Process Designer, the saved engineering data will be automatically opened.

1. Select File > Save As from the menu bar.
2. The Save Scenario window opens.
3. Save the current scenario using one of the following steps:
   • If you want to save the current scenario in an existing study, select the study node under the Study Folder to save the current scenario. A message is then displayed asking whether to overwrite the data already contained in that study.
   • If you want to create a new study, select the Study Folder and enter the name in the Study Name field.
4. Click OK. If you created a new Study, Process Designer then adds the new study under the Study Folder.

Figure: Save Scenario Window

Objects in Study

To add objects to the study file, select a compound part, resource, and/or operation from the collection folder in the Navigation Tree and drag and drop them into the study node under the Study Folder node in the Navigation Tree. Process Designer only adds a shortcut to the (compound) part, resource, or operation object in the study node. Thus, if the object is updated or new children objects are added to the compound object, the objects in the study are automatically updated.

Process Designer also displays the resource objects in the Resource Tree, the part objects in the Product Tree, and the operation object in the Operation Tree. If a child of the selected compound object already exists in the target study, the new object item is added as a parent object of the existing one.