In the simplest terms, virtual commissioning is the practice of using “virtual” simulation technology to “commission”—design, install or test—control software with a virtual machine model before you connect it to the real system. While commissioning is a crucial part of the process, it typically occurs rather late in development. And while it actually only accounts for 25% of the total development time, it’s during this phase that most of the delays occur (Hoffmann et al. 2010). In fact,...
Organizations are under increasing pressure to minimize the downtime of their manufacturing facilities and plants. This is especially challenging when they are commissioning systems for assembly lines and cells. Virtual commissioning, a model-based approach,...
Commissioning is a vital tool in the development of today’s manufacturing systems. Over the last decade, it has helped alleviate financial and time pressures on organizations that are trying to minimize downtime at their...
In the age of Industry 4.0, digital twins help bridge the gap between the physical and digital worlds. A digital twin is a dynamic, virtual representation of a corresponding physical product. These models can...
There’s no doubt about it: today’s production systems are becoming incredibly complex. Machinery, cells, lines, and entire facilities leveraged new and innovative sensors, electronics and programmable logic controllers (PLC) to do some pretty amazing...
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What’s the Value of Virtual Commissioning? Let’s talk about that next. Okay, so what is the value of virtual commissioning? So I think to have a good rounded conversation around this, we really need...