Projects and Studies are how you organize your work in Ionworks. They provide a structured way to manage your research, simulations, and data.

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Core Concepts

  • Projects: High-level containers to group related research efforts. Think of them as folders for different initiatives or client work.
  • Studies: Live inside a Project and represent a specific investigation, like a set of experiments or a particular analysis.
This creates a clear hierarchy for your work: 
Organization
└── Project
    └── Study

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Projects

Projects help you organize different research areas. For example, you might create projects like “New Electrolyte Development” or “Customer X Cell Performance.”

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Key Features of Projects

  • Grouping Studies: A project can hold multiple studies, keeping all related investigations in one place.
  • Data Scoping: All the data that belongs to a Cell Specifications that is associated with a project is available to the project. This includes all the Models and Simulations that belong to the cell.
  • Collaboration: All projects within an organization are accessible to all members of that organization. Access to specific actions within a project is managed by organization-level roles and permissions.
When a new organization is created, a “Default” project is automatically created to get you started.

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Studies

Studies are where you’ll do the detailed work of your analysis. They live inside a project and are used to encapsulate a focused piece of work.

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Key Features of Studies

  • Focused Investigations: Use studies for specific tasks like parameterizing a model, comparing cycling protocols, or investigating a failure mode.
  • Simulations: You can run and manage simulations directly within a study. The platform is smart about this:
    • Reusability: Before running a new simulation, the system checks if an identical one has been run before. If so, it reuses the existing results to save time and resources.
    • Association: New and existing simulation results are associated with your study, keeping everything organized.
This structure allows for a clear separation of concerns, flexible data organization, and streamlined collaboration.
Studies only provide “views” into a simulation result, so a simulation result can be associated with multiple studies without needing to be re-run or duplicating the data.When you remove a simulation from a study, it is not deleted from the simulation results. It is simply unlinked from the study.