What is Virtual Commissioning?
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...
Using Digital Twins to Correct Machine Performance Issues in the Field
When creating a new product – say, a new kind of aerial working platform for the construction industry – designers are now used to using CAE and digital models to develop and validate the...
Top 4 Applications for Digital Twins
The technology behind digital twins (and virtual commissioning) range widely, so it’s no wonder that these terms have seemed to pop up everywhere in automation recently. In the most general sense of the term,...
Virtual Commissioning Tutorial with B&R Tools
While we finish gathering responses to our virtual commissioning survey, let’s take a deeper look at how virtual commissioning looks with one of our most popular automation vendors – B&R Industrial Automation. Our video...
Fixing Vibrations on Aerial Work Platforms
While we gather results from all of you on our virtual commissioning survey, there’s some news to share in the world of industrial machines – namely, a company that used virtual commissioning when diagnosing...
Optimizing Control Strategies For Less
Out of all the use cases for virtual commissioning, optimizing control strategies is a topic that gets a lot of coverage. We’ve spoken before about how this can be done – and why it...
Developing Robot Models with Digital Twins
This week, we’re highlighting a case study from ABB Robotics. They were developing robot models, using digital twin to speed up their development processes. The tool used by ABB for model creation was MapleSim...
Optimizing Machine Design with a Digital Twin
Last week, we used an example to demonstrate how to create a digital twin that can be used for machine-level design improvements, and ultimately become the test platform for virtual commissioning. Before getting right...
Creating a Digital Twin – Step by Step
For most workflows that use virtual commissioning, creating a digital twin is the first step you’ll need to take. This digital twin can take several different forms, so depending on your application, certain digital...
Virtual Commissioning Review: 2020 Recap
As we close out 2020 and all look towards a brighter 2021, let’s take some time to look back on what’s happened this year with virtual commissioning. We’ll round out our content here by...