Study overview

Studies (subscopes) can be used to define a scope of work. You can use studies to further refine the content of a station using Teamcenter, Process Simulate, or NX.

In order to properly validate and/or simulate information, it is often necessary to temporarily bring together information from different scopes into a single, common scope. This is accomplished by creating a study object that is specifically intended to manage these scopes. You add the station process and any related product and resources to the study. You then manually copy and paste any additional resources that are needed, but not related, such as conveyors or guarding, that are not part of the station resource.

There are two types of studies:

• Shared Study – The study can contain processes (with assigned product, features, and resources) and plant structure. Any changes made in a study are directly reflected in the source structures.

• Isolated Study – The study can contain processes (with assigned product, features, and resources) and plant structure. Any changes made in a study to plant structure are directly reflected in the source structures. However, changes made to the process structure are stored only in the study and are not reflected in the source process structure.