DYNSIM is part of the Dynamic Simulation Suite from Invensys, assisting in process design, controls checkout, and control system design. DYNSIM is a comprehensive, dynamic process simulator that enables users to meet and beat the dynamic challenges of designing and operating a modern process plant safely and profitably. It expedites your comprehensive engineering workflow: design, operational analysis, dynamic simulation, operator training, plant performance improvement to reduce capital investment costs, improve process yields, and enhance management decision support while leveraging your existing technology investments.

Installation of DYNSIM: Dynamic Process Simulation Software

There is no Mac OS X, Windows 8, or Windows 10 version of DYNSIM: Dynamic Process Simulation.

Installation for Windows PC Instructions

  1. Download the Package for Version 5.1 here  or Version 5.2 here
  2. Extract the DYNSIM package, you will need 7zip or a similar extraction utility to do this.
  3. Open an administrator command prompt (you can do this by right clicking on the cmd app)
  4. Navigate to the DYNSIM folder that you extracted. (i.e. if saved to desktop, cd c:\users\myusername\Desktop\DYNSIM)
  5. Run "setupdynsim.bat" which is located inside the folder you extracted
  6. To run DYNSIM, make sure you are connected to the engineering VPN server; login -> username: simsci password: simsci