Automation Process Composer

Automation Process Composer enables you to build a process that can automate your simulations and manage data.

This app is suitable for methods developers (that is, simulation experts) automating simulations or capturing best simulation practices in an automated process.

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Automation Process Composer provides an interactive environment that allows you to assemble a sequence of adapters into a workflow and to define the flow of data through the workflow, as shown in the following figure:

Adapters make up the steps of a simulation process. Flow adapters (such as the Loop adapter) drive the process. Utility and application adapters (such as OS Command, Calculator, and Excel) perform a specific function or invoke an application that is external to Automation Process Composer.

Automation Process Composer is a native app that lets you:

  • Create a graphical representation of your process using adapters as building blocks.
  • Configure the execution of adapters and the data that passes between them.
  • Define the data sources and the data dependencies.
  • Manage centralized data storage that any user connected to the server can access.
  • Encapsulate knowledge and know how to eradicate manual simulation processes, significantly improving efficiency and traceability.
  • Capture complex integration workflows that robustly take into account the variability of a high number of design variables and multiple simulation tools for use in design exploration.
  • Interact with other apps to deploy modeling and simulation best practices to be repeatable, reusable, and accessible. For example, a methods developer can use Automation Process Composer to define a workflow that captures company-wide standards and best practices. They can then use the Process Experience Studio app to create a template based on the workflow. A wider audience of users can then use the Performance Study app to open the simulation template, make changes within the specified limits, and run a new simulation process.

After your process runs, you can use the Performance Trade-off app to examine the data generated from running the Automation Process Composer workflow.

For information on accessing Automation Process Composer, see Opening an App from the Compass.