Creating a Task Plan

Creating a task plan involves adding components for eventual use in the task plan and specifying which of these components will actually be used during execution. You can add as many components as you want but use only a few for your model’s execution. The unused components are saved and can be used at a later time.

  1. From the Design Gateway, verify that you have created a model that contains a Task component in the location where you want to create a task plan.

  2. Double-click the Task component.

    The Task Component Editor appears.

  3. Click Execute the specified Task Plan.

    The options for defining a task plan become available. Isight will execute the components specified in the task plan in the defined order when you run the model. All process components in the task plan will execute the original analysis simulation flow.

  4. Click the component that you want to add to the task plan:

    • DOE component.

    • Monte Carlo component.

    • Optimization component.

    • SDI component.

    • Six Sigma component.

    • Any component found in the library.

    For more information on how application and process components are handled in the simulation process flow, see Display of Task Plans in the Design Gateway.

    Isight adds the component to the Available Components list with a default name. In its current state (in the Available Components list) the component is not included in the simulation process flow. However, it is saved by Isight and can be configured.

  5. Select a component, and click to configure the component.

    Tip: You can also double-click any component to access its editor.

    If desired, you can configure the component after adding it to the simulation process flow. Refer to the Isight Component Guide for information on configuring components.

  6. Add components to the simulation process flow by selecting the desired component, and clicking the button.

    Isight adds the component to the Task Plan Execution list. You can remove components from the simulation process flow by clicking the button.

  7. Move the components added to the Task Plan Execution list up or down using the and buttons to create the desired task plan simulation process flow.

    The components are executed in the order in which they appear in the list, with the top component executing first.

    Tip: You can edit, rename, or delete the component by right-clicking the component in the Available Components list or the Task Plan Execution list.

  8. If desired, click the Model View tab to view the entire simulation process flow layout.

    You can use the buttons on the left side of the tab to alter the presentation of the model layout (you cannot directly alter the actual simulation process flow from this tab). For more information on using the buttons, see Manipulating Model Simulation Process Flows.

  9. If you are connected to a SIMULIA Execution Engine, click Fast Path execution to ensure that the Task component executes without being dispatched to a station.

    For more information, see About the Task Component in the Isight Component Guide.

  10. Click OK to save your changes and to close the Task Component Editor.

    If you are saving a task plan but you have not added any components to the Task Plan Execution list, Isight displays a message prompting you to set the execution mode to execute the analysis flow once. If you click No and leave the editor set to execute an empty task plan, upon execution the Task component will complete without executing anything.

  11. After you have created a model with a task plan, you can return to the Task Component Editor to change the task plan.

    Alternatively, you can use the Exploration tab on the Design Gateway. The Exploration tab is similar to the Task Plan view in the Task Component Editor; however, the Model View is not available, and you cannot use fast path execution.