Simulation environments management

This page describes how to use Simulation environments in Axiodis and corresponding key points.

Goals

Simulation environment anagement allows the user to define some dedicated environment in which he can make some simulations (new constraints, new data, new optimization profiles, and so on) without any change within the operational environment.

The system can manage many environments, but the operational environment is always existing and is unique:

• If current environment is the operational environment, then the system shows all the module according to the licence,
• If current environment is a simulation environment, then the system shows only Data & Contraints and Planning modules,

WEB portal

Once the user is connected, a new combo-box is available within the WEB portal. This combo-box contains all the simulation environments allowed to the current user.

At the first time a user launch the application, this combo-box contains only the operational environment: OPE - Operational environment.

Then, the combo box will be automatically positioned on the last used environment when the user did a logoff.

If none environment is authorized for the current connected user, then the combo-box will be empty, and the user will not be able to launch the RCP application. He will have to ask an appropriate user in order to give him access to some environments (See Simulation environments management below).

RCP portal

Once the connected user choose one environment within the WEB portal, then he can launch the RCP platform. According to the type of the chosen environment (Simulation or Operational), the system show more or less modules.

 The RCP platform is always open for 1 and only 1 environment. We will see below how to swapp from one environment to another.

Also a new menu within the RCP platform, showing:

• All the environments allowed to the current connected user: by selecting one environment, the current connected user can easily swapp from one to another
• The option "Save as", if the connected user has at least the authorization to create a new simulation environment (See below in the Administration module),
• The option "Manage environments", if the connected user has at least the authorization to consult the existing environments,

Administration module 

The administration module is available only within the operational environment, according to the authorizations if the current connected user.

Authorizations profiles

Some new authorizations are available, visible according to the licence:

• Environments consultation : allows the user to access the environment management window
• Environments creation : allows the connected user to create new simulation environments within the system
• Environments modification : allows the connected user to modify simulation environments
• Environments deletion : allows the connected user to delete simulation environments

Also some new authorizations in order to manage the actions in the Planning module (so-called Tactical Planning module), when the user is connected to a simulation environment (but not for the operational environment).

Tactical actions

According to its authorizations, the connected user can add, modify or delete the standard action for the Tactical Planning module.

User definition

According to its authorizations, the connected user can modify its user scope, in order to use another tactical actions profile.

Environments management window

Accessible by the menu Environments + Manage environments:

This windows is enabled only if the connected user has at least the authorization to consult the environments. Then, according to the above authorizations, the connected user can add, modify or delete some environment.

 System forbids to delete the operational environment.

General informations

Some informations are read only and setted by the system when creating the environment:

• Type of environment : Simulation or Operational
• Owner: the user who created the environment
• Creation date: date the environment was created

Authorizations

Allow to list all the users defined in the system with access to the current simulation. By default, at the creation of a new simulation environment, the owner is part of the list. He can be remomved.

 System forbids

• to delete a simulation environment on which a user is connected
• to remove the authorization from one environment for a connected user on which he is connected

General management rules on Data & Constraints and Tactical planning modules

Displays and filters

Within the Data & Constraint module, filters and displays are only for the current connected user: there's no publication to other users as it exists within the cockpits.

So for this module, we consider that a connected user is using the same filters and displays, whether in a simulation environment or in an operational environment.

If he creates one filter or display in any environment (simulation or operational), then it will be available in all the other one.

Free informations

Within the Data & Constraints module, a connected user on a simulation environment is using the same definition of free informations as defined in the operational environment, and cannot define some new free informations, nor delete an existing one.

That means that, if he needs a new free information, he should first switch to the operational environment, and then create a new free information, according to its habilitations.

Note: Same behavior within the cockpit tactical planning

Authorizations profiles

For the Data and Constraints module, the authorizations taken into account within a simulation environment are those defined by the operational environment.

The authorizations are the same, whether in a simulation environment or in an operational environment.

Data & Constraints module

Usage cases:

• Case (1) (eg Alerts) 
  • Data from the operational environment (according to the user habilitations) is only editable in the operational environment
  • Data from the operational enviroment is visible in simulation environments (according to the user habilitations) and disabled (Gray, Italic, and read-only),
  • No specific data for a simulation environment
• Case (2) (eg logistic sites, trucks, trailers, optimization profiles) 
  • Data from the operational environment (according to the user habilitations) is only accessible from the operational environment 
  • Specfic data dedicated for each simulation environment,
• Case (3) (eg logistic profiles, legislation profiles)
  • Data from the operational environment (according to the user habilitations) is available on all simulation environment, with Read-Only access
  • Specific data dedicated for each simulation environment,

Tactical planning module

All the view are the same as defined for the planning module, according to the view profiles associated to the current connected user.

All the available actions are those defined in the Administration module, menu Tactical / Actions

www.maplink.global