Rockwell Automation Arena Basic Edition Users Guide - Manual (Page 64)

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throughout your organization so that everyone who has an interest in the process defini-
tion can access it directly through Visio.
With this approach, process maps can be created and shared throughout the organization
on any desktop with a Visio license. When simulation and animation are needed to visual-
ize and analyze the behavior of the process, the drawings can be transferred to systems
with the Arena Basic Edition. By using the Process Simulation template and checking the
process maps as they’re created, you can be confident that taking the step to move from
static drawing to dynamic simulation will be seamless.
Publish process maps on a Web page
You can share your process maps—the drawing of your process flowchart—with others
by using Visio’s HTML export feature to publish on an intranet. To save the drawing in
HTML format, select the File > Save As menu option in Visio and change the type to
HTML Files. (Refer to Visio’s online help for more information about the HTML export
feature.)
The value of modeling and analyzing your processes can be further exploited by saving
process performance information with the process maps. The results of simulation runs
can be saved in HTML format, providing a benchmark against which actual operations or
other improvement concepts can be compared. To save the reports, click the Export
button when you have an Arena report open and select the HTML option as the file type.