What's New in Automation Studio™ P7

Once more, Automation Studio™ P7 - Professional Edition pushes the ‘Trade-Oriented’ concept implemented in the software a step further, always with the same objective : achieve higher productivity with less effort. The designers, test and reliability specialists, trainers and maintenance technicians and engineers will all appreciate the new features and functions and add them to their toolbox essentials.

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*Some of the new features' availability is subject to the configuration of the purchased license.

FLUID POWERarrow down

Hydraulic Block Manifold Workshop


Create and edit manifolds in Automation Studio™ with the new Hydraulic Block Manifold workshop. An Auto-Create function can quickly propose up to 100 manifold solutions based on your Automation Studio™ schematic and set constraints. You are then able to tweak the proposed designs to your liking. Take pressure and flow measurements at any point in time during simulation.

Hydraulic Block Manifold Workshop
Hydraulic Block Manifold Workshop
Hydraulic Block Manifold Workshop

New & Updated Manufacturers' Catalogues


Many Manufacturers' Catalogues have been added and updated. The new technical data allows compatible manufacturer's components to be used within the Hydraulic Block Manifold workshop, and enables direct integration of the pre-configured and documented manufacturers' components into your Block Manifold in Automation Studio™. The manifold compatible components are identified in the Catalogue Manager.

  • Automation Studio™ Electrical - Variable Frequency Drives NEW
  • CKD Corporation SOON
  • Continental Hydraulics Valves NEW
  • Cy.Pag. NEW
  • Danfoss Orbital Motors UPDATED
  • Doosan Mottrol NEW
  • Eaton Sectional CLS & CMA Mobile Valves UPDATED
  • Humphrey Products NEW
  • IMI Precision / Norgren SOON
  • Koganei UPDATED
  • Linde Hydraulics UPDATED
  • Mitsubishi Electric SOON
  • Shanghai Guorui Hydraulic Technology co (GRH) POWER Valves NEW
  • SMC Pneumatics NEW
  • Tecnord SOON
  • Wandfluh NEW
  • Zhejiang Gaoyu Hydraulic Machinery Co Ltd NEW

Additional Manufacturers' Catalogue components are added and updated on a weekly basis.

Updated Manufacturers Catalogues

Online Manufacturers' Catalogues


The Automation Studio™ Web Catalogues lets you drag & drop components directly from the web browser interface to your Automation Studio™ schematic. These components are always the most up-to-date version. Therefore, there is no need to locally manage multiple manufacturers' catalogue files. The Web Catalogues for Automation Studio™ will be made available shortly after the release of Automation Studio™ P7.

Online Manufacturers' Catalogues

New Hydraulic Components


  • Planetary gearboxes
  • Differentials and torque converters
  • Separate control surface valves
  • Pressure compensated flow dividers
  • Jumps with label frame

Improved Hydraulic Components Simulation Models


  • Hydraulic motor plates can now have a limited stroke
  • Added an exchange surface area for the external dissipation of hydraulic heaters
  • Improved curve tracking in pressure regulators
  • Pressure compensated flow dividers
  • Improved manual directional valve commands
New and updated hydraulic components

Support of Transmission Shafts in the Mechanism Manager


The Mechanism Manager now accepts rotating drive shafts. This implies that all rotating elements, such as hydraulic, pneumatic, electric motors and gearboxes, etc., can now be simulated in the Mechanism Manager.

Support of Transmission Shafts in the Mechanism Manager

New Pneumatic Components


  • Compressors
  • Vacuum generators
  • Vacuum cups
  • Normally closed flow sensors
Additional Pneumatic Components

TROUBLESHOOTINGarrow down

Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)


Quickly obtain and communicate system failure information, thanks to the new FMECA module of Automation Studio™. It is based on, but not limited to, [IEC 60812] Failure Modes & Effects Analysis. This can greatly reduce troubleshooting time and increase system reliability.

ailure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA)

CUSTOM TRAINING LIBRARIESarrow down

Renewable Energy Custom Library


The new Renewable Energy library is made with illustrated components. It enables to create and simulate circuits with look-alike components from real-world applications. Some components even animate during simulation, creating an optimal experience for training activities.

Renewable Energy Library

PLC Custom Library


This library was created to enable trainees to actually wire up the PLC (Allen Bradley, Eaton, Koyo, LS Electric, Mitsubishi, Omron, Siemens, etc.), write the Ladder Logic and run the simulation to see the inputs and outputs being triggered on the PLC according to their ladder diagram.

Renewable Energy Library

DC Electrical Custom Library


This illustrated library is intended for DC electrical circuits. Components can be connected directly or by using the breadboard to create and simulate your circuit.

Renewable Energy Library

Residential Electricity Custom Library


Trainees can now quickly build residential electrical circuits using common components which they are familiar with.

Renewable Energy Library

Hydraulic Cross-Section View Library


Create your circuit using hydraulic components with a cross-section view that is animated during simulation. Trainees can now quickly visualize the flow movement in the circuit.

Renewable Energy Library

Hydraulic Cylinders with Load Custom Library


This custom library allows to quickly vary the cylinders load during simulation and instantly see how it affects the system.

Renewable Energy Library

ELECTRICALarrow down

Terminal Strips Builder


New terminals with jumper channels management of different categories were added:

  • Feed-Through
  • Ground
  • Feed-Through with Ground
  • Knife Disconnect
  • Disconnect
  • Sensor / Actuator
  • Fuse Holder
  • Distribution Blocks

Simplified terminals are still available. The new builder allows complete management of the terminal strips, including the accessories management and the part numbers. Terminal strip export and import functions are also available.

dditional Electrical Components

New Semiconductor Devices


New semiconductor components have been added to the Electrotechnical library, such as:

  • Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT)
  • Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET)
  • Metal-Oxyde-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET)
  • Thyristors

Thyristors, bipolar transistors and field effect transistors have been introduced. The thyristor can be controlled by a variable or by an external circuit and the transistors have been designed to operate in both switching and amplification mode.

dditional Electrical Components

Improvement of the Battery Component


  • The ageing effect on the battery capacity is now taken into account
  • OCV hysteresis effect is taken into account by differentiating OCV vs SOC curves during charge and discharge
  • New advanced model taking into account the voltage transients' behaviour during charge and discharge
  • Predefined battery parameters for the different available battery types
Improvement on the Battery Component

CONTROLSarrow down

AB-500 and AB-5000 Compatible Functions and Addresses


These new libraries are an update from our original library that did not include all the major functions. These two new libraries enable you to create control circuits using addresses (AB-500) or tag names (AB-5000).

Ladder for Allen-Bradley 500 PLC and 5000 PLC

Additional Math Block Components


Adaptors in (math) blocks enable the creation of complex behaviours for fluid power and electrical components.

Additional Math Blocks Components

FORUMarrow down

New Discussion Forum


Many customers want to share their schematics with other parties or simply share their experience. The new Forum allows access to demonstration files, custom libraries and other information that can be helpful to your applications. We hope that you will also share your experience with everyone. If you don’t have an account in the Forum, register here

Discussion Forum

VIRTUAL SYSTEMSarrow down

Virtual Systems Using Unity 3D


Virtual systems created using Unity 3D allow for a training experience with a high level of realism. These systems can be controlled within Automation Studio™ using Electrical Controls, PLCs and/or Sequential Function Chart. Access the Forum to download the files and procedure to install the Unity 3D models. New virtual systems are frequently added.

Virtual Systems

APPLICATIONarrow down

Online Help


You can now access Automation Studio™ help documentation online. The online help documentation is constantly improved and updated based on users' support cases and feedback. Also, the software installation file size is reduced.

Online Help

Mouse Options Configuration


The new mouse button configuration menu allows users to set their desired mouse buttons behaviour in Automation Studio™.

Mouse options configuration

Smaller Simulation Pace


New simulation steps of up to 1 micro-second are available to allow finer simulations. This feature is particularly useful to simulate high frequencies phenomena (up to 100kHz), especially in the electrical workshop.

Smaller simulation pace

Conservation of the Internal Identifier of a Component When Replaced


Component internal identification can be maintained when replacing the component. This is useful for systems that have a unique identifier for each component.

Other Customer Requested Improvements & Bug Fixes


  • Performance improvements
  • Fixed the radial speed variable of the transmission power units
  • Fixed discrepancies of the output pressure value of the "Pressure and Temperature Flow Control" component
  • Fixed the flexible lines acting as a plug after a while in simulation
  • Fixed the behaviour of unloading valve with check and drain
  • Changed the image shown in the component properties of the "Bidirectional Motor with Shaft"
  • Fixed the Curve Export API not exporting all curves
  • Fixed an incorrect pressure at port 2 of the pneumatic "Remote Pressure Reducing Valve" component
  • Fixed unhandled exception error in PLCs when the '&' character was inserted in the description
  • Fixed BOM order changing when a model is saved
  • Fixed an issue with the BOM and lines when exporting to PDF