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Applications

Simulator Manager
More:

Introduction

Interaction

Configure Simulator window

Operation

Simulation run

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Applications > Simulator Manager

Introduction

Simulator Manager manages the simulation process. This allows a few parameters to be modified
prior running the application.

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Applications > Simulator Manager

Interaction

The diagram below illustrates how Simulator Manager is integrated into the MAROS simulation
development cycle.

1. Develop and build a model with MAROS

2. Run the simulation from within MAROS, this launches Simulation Manager

3. When Simulation Manager successfully completes it will launch Results Viewer to display
the results

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Applications > Simulator Manager

Configure Simulator window

When the user clicks on the crystal ball ( ) at the toolbar to run the application, another dialog
will be shown. The “Configure Simulator” window allows modify a few parameters prior running
the model.

More:

General folder

Detailed Output

Diagnostic

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Applications > Simulator Manager > Configure Simulator window

General folder

This window allows the user to control parameters defined at the Simulator Parameter:

- Change the System Life

- Change the Number of Simulations

- Select the number of cores to run the simulation

- Toggles Maintenance Resource Modelling on and off

- Generate animation data

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Animation data
The Generate animation data for the period below” box allows the user to control the amount of
data generated for the Animation mode in the Asset view. Once the box is checked, the following
options become available:

- To specify the simulation cycle of interest use the drop down list. This contains only the
cycles scheduled to run.

- To specify the period of interest enter the start year and the end year. Note that the years do
not have to be integers, e.g. 0.5 to 1 will generate data for the second half of the first year.

If no animation data is required ensure that the Generate box is unchecked - this will also disable
the remaining controls.

Multi-core run
In MAROS it is possible to run a single project file on multiple processor cores by splitting out
the individual life cycles on separate cores in parallel.

Following the example below, if a Quad Core Processor (4 Cores) is available, the user can
choose the number of the cores to use to run the simulation.

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MAROS will automatically track the number of cores available from your computer. The user
has to select from the drop-down list the number of cores to be used during the simulation.

Upon completion of the run, MAROS will merge the results from the different run set.

Applications > Simulator Manager > Configure Simulator window

Detailed Output

The Detailed output window allows the user to control the resolution of the results. This is really
important as this will control the reporting interval for all the results. The default value is
30.41666 day which will produce results on a monthly basis. The user can change this to High
Resolution and see the results on a daily basis. The user can also define the time step.

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Applications > Simulator Manager > Configure Simulator window

Diagnostic

The Diagnostic window enables the user to generate data for quality assessment on the
completion of the simulation.

The filtering options if for software support purpose and it will not be available for users.

The “Single cycle fixed sampling test mode” enables MAROS to run using a deterministic
approach. This method has two methodologies available:

- Sample from the statistical distributions and use the first sampled value to simulate the entire
life of the system

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- Use the mean value

This method is for testing purposes and the benefit is running the model with a great degree of
complexity but also predictability.

Applications > Simulator Manager

Operation

When Simulator Manager starts the simulation, an icon will be shown at Windows system tray
(when a simulation is running the tray icon will be animated).

It is possible to stop the simulation by right mouse-clicking on the icon to access the application
menu.

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Applications > Simulator Manager

Simulation run

The simulator tracks the mean efficiency of the system over all the simulations. When operating
in large mode this data is displayed as a graph on the main window. This view is often useful to
determine the stability/convergence of the results.

There are two controls in this view, these are discussed below:

Stop: The stop command sends a request to the simulator to finish once the current simulation
cycle is complete. At the end of the cycle the simulator will complete the standard clean-up and
analysis phase and present the results so far.

Abort: The abort command sends a request to the simulator to finish immediately. No processing
is performed and the results so far are discarded.

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In addition, this dialog gives another two options:

- Display the progress status for each simulation which might degraded the simulation time

- Auto close the window on completion of the simulation run

Applications

Results Viewer
More:

Introduction

Interaction

Views

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Applications > Results Viewer

Introduction

The results tables and graphs are embedded in MAROS. However, MAROS has an application to
manage results, the Results Viewer. The features available are:

- Reporting view of simulation results

- Detailed view and analysis of simulation results

- Ability to publish and redistribute Results Viewer packages

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Applications > Results Viewer

Interaction

Results Viewer can be used as a standalone application to view results, it is also possible to
distribute a version of Results Viewer and these results in a single, self-contained file. The
diagram below illustrates how Results Viewer is integrated into the MAROS simulation
development cycle.

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Applications > Results Viewer

Views

The Results Viewer can be used as part of MAROS or as a standalone application.

When run as part of MAROS, the Results Viewer will generate another two tabs at the top of the
software which will display a summary of the results and the all raw data generated on the
completion of the simulation process.

The interface of the Results Viewer when run as a standalone application is shown below:

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Applications

Information and Diagnostic tool

More:

Introduction

File menu

Tools menu

Other Menus

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Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool

Introduction

The “Info and Diagnostic” tool has been designed to assist clients on analysing problems with
installation of the application and models. This utility has two main purposes:

1. Analyse a Maros or Taro file to see what version the model file was saved with and the last
simulation engine version used. From the file menu select Analyse File.

2. It can help diagnose installation issues after a failed installation attempt. From the Tools
menu select Validate Installation and review the section where error messages are
explained. This diagnostic report can also be created and emailed from the File menu by
selecting Email Diagnostics.

This tool can be found under the following folder:

· Maros: C:\Program Files (x86)\DNVGL\Maros9”.

· Taro: “C:\Program Files (x86)\DNVGL\Taro”.

By selecting the executable file “InfoAndDiagnosticTool.exe”, the application will be initialised:

Figure 866: Information and Diagnostic Tool

The different diagnosing features are available in the toolbars. The following section describes the
features available in each menu.

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Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool

File menu

The file menu has two features:

· Analyse a file: load a model file which will be further investigated; this will change the
interface

· Email Diagnostic: diagnose installation process and send an email to DNV GL’s Software
support group.

In this menu, the user can also exit the application.

Figure 867: File Menu

More:

Analyse a file

Email Diagnostic

Error messages

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Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool > File menu

Analyse a file

This option will load a model file and provide initial information of what it contains. This
includes

· File Status: the file name, when it was created and last modified and the size

· Document Information : Template ID, Application Name, Application Version and

Simulator Version

· Date and time when the report was generated

Figure 868: Documentation Information

This feature is also accessible by clicking on the Open button as shown below:

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Figure 869: Open button

Once the model has been analysed, extra menus and buttons will be available:

Save: The report can be saved in a rich text format (.rtf), by clicking on the Save
button;
Copy: After selecting a text in the report, the user can copy the selection to the
clipboard
View: Print preview
Print: Print the report
Help: Access the Help button

Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool > File menu

Email Diagnostic

The process of analysing the installation of the application will check all files in the installation
folder. Select “E-mail Diagnostics” and the appropriate tool to send an email to our Software
Support team. This will include a Microsoft Excel list which compares the installed files.

Figure 870: E-mail Diagnostic

The main reason a failed installation is usually that the user does not have Windows
Administrator privileges. If this is the case, please get your IT department to give your computer

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administration rights before proceeding with the installation.

Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool > File menu

Error messages

The following errors messages are displayed in case of an inconsistence of the installation
process.

· Microsoft .Net 4.51 or above has not been found.

o Application may install but not run correctly. Microsoft .Net 4.51 or above
needs to be installed. Please contact IT to install this or download and
install the latest Microsoft .Net Framework from the Microsoft website.

· Cannot find the main application file

o This tool is configured to look in the default install directory which, for
Maros is c:\program file (x86)\dnvgl\maros and for Taro c:\program file
(x86)\dnvgl\taro. Please ensure that the software is installed in the
default folder to perform the diagnostics.

· Cannot find the installation file list Maros Setup.csv

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o To get an installed file report this needs the installation files list. If
this is not there is usually means that the installation is older than Maros
9.3 or Taro 5.3. Please upgrade to the latest version.

· Some files are newer, older missing or not matching.

o Newer files may be ok but missing or older files may indicate a failed
installation. Please use the Email Diagnostic option to send the report to
software support.

· SimEngine.exe cannot be found in c:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\SimEngine.

o This file is used by Maros and Taro to invoke the simulation engine. Please
use the Email Diagnostic option to send the report to software support.

· SimEngine.exe LocalServer32 is not registered.

· SimEngine.exe TypeLib is not registered.

o SimEngine.exe must have failed to register. Please to uninstall and

reinstall making sure that you have administrator privileges.

· SimEngine.exe LocalServer32 is not registered in common files: <registered path>

· SimEngine.exe TypeLib is not registered in common files: <registered path>

o An older or newer installation may be conflicting or SimEngine has been

manually registered. Please to uninstall and reinstall making sure that you
have administrator privileges.

Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool

Tools menu

This menu includes several features:

Figure 871: Tools menu

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The features are described below:

· Installer Logging:

· Validate Installation: gives the same functionality as the

· Anonymise File: this removes all data from the model and it substitutes with untraceable
numbers

· Add XML data: this allows Maros/Taro to be manipulated in Synergi Plant, DNV GL’s
Asset Integrity Management System

Applications > Information and Diagnostic tool

Other Menus

Other menus will be available when a model file is selected:

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Figure 872: Info and diagnostic button

Edit menu will allow users to copy text in the report and send to the clipboard.

Figure 873: Edit Menu

View menu will allow users to change the different views of the application.

Figure 874: View Menu

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