Virtual commissioning: A tool to ensure effective system integration

Vermaak, H.J.; Niemann, Johan

doi:10.1109/ecmsm.2017.7945899

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“…VC enhances real commissioning by detecting system errors and bugs in early stages before the real commissioning is started [27]. VC is "the simulation of a system in a virtual environment" [28]. VC starts in the early stage of system development before the physical system is built.…”

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Applying Digital Twin Technology in Higher Education: An Automation Line Case Study

Eriksson

Alsaleh

Far

et al. 2022

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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Production systems are being expanded to include Digital Twins (DTs) as part of increased industrial digitalization. DTs can bring benefits e.g., increase visibility, safety, and accessibility of the system. Further, digital experimentation can reduce time and cost. Though, application of DT technologies involves challenges i.e., model accuracy or errors in transferring data or codes between the DT and the physical twin. Many studies on DTs focus on industrial applications. However, DT technology has potential for implementation of digital labs in education. This aspect of DTs is of rising importance as distance education has increased over the last decade and access to physical laboratories can be restricted due to factors such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, there is a need to study the use of DT technology in higher education. To address this, we investigate possibilities and challenges of applying DT technology in education to conduct industrial-like labs virtually. A case of an automation line, with full scale industrial equipment, based at a research center, is focused. Results emphasize that the application of DT technologies require multi-domain expertise to understand the consequences of every single decision in the design process on every piece of equipment involved, making the modelling process complex and time consuming. Thus, when applied in education, test procedures need to be designed to focus on students’ motivation, improved learning and understanding of production systems. DTs are considered enabling technologies supporting the concept of Industry 5.0, thus stressing the human-centric aspects of advancing Industry 4.0. The predicted application of DTs emphasizes the need for educational curricula that include laboratory applications and theoretic understanding of DT technologies. This study focusses the application of DT technologies in higher education curricula, but the result of the study can contribute to other areas such as automation and virtual commissioning towards smarter manufacturing.

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Section: Virtual Commissioningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Applying Digital Twin Technology in Higher Education: An Automation Line Case Study

Eriksson

Alsaleh

Far

et al. 2022

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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“…Digital plant models still divide the geometry and physics of the system from the PLC control program and signals, which are tested within the control software development tool (i.e., without a direct vision of the process behavior). Alternatively, by exploiting the open platform communications (OPC) protocol, the real PLC system can be connected with a 3D virtual model of the cell, defined in DELMIA or Dymola environments, as in [30,31]. An example of OPC coupling, realized through the WINMOD and SIMIT packages, can be seen in [18,32], but it is limited to the Siemens platform, while open IEC-61131 PLC programs should also be emulated.…”

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Engineering Method and Tool for the Complete Virtual Commissioning of Robotic Cells

Raffaeli

Bilancia

Neri³

et al. 2022

Applied Sciences

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Intelligent robotic manufacturing cells must adapt to ever-varying operating conditions, developing autonomously optimal manufacturing strategies to achieve the best quality and overall productivity. Intelligent and cognitive behaviors are realized by using distributed controllers, in which complex control logics must interact and process a wide variety of input/output signals. In particular, programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and robot controllers must be coordinated and integrated. Then, there is the need to simulate the robotic cells’ behavior for performance verification and optimization by evaluating the effects of both PLC and robot control codes. In this context, this work proposes a method, and its implementation into an integrated tool, to exploit the potential of ABB RobotStudio software as a virtual prototyping platform for robotic cells, in which real robots control codes are executed on a virtual controller and integrated with Beckhoff PLC environment. For this purpose, a PLC Smart Component was conceived as an extension of RobotStudio functionalities to exchange signals with a TwinCAT instance. The new module allows the virtual commissioning of a complete robotic cell to be performed, assessing the control logics effects on the overall productivity. The solution is demonstrated on a robotic assembly cell, showing its feasibility and effectiveness in optimizing the final performance.

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“…It is also necessary to integrate the HMI for the manual operation of the conveyor itself. The Virtual Commissioning tool is used for testing of the various scenarios without the need for a physical device in the control program developing [10]. Experiments will be evaluated and the control program optimized with respect to the required material flow.…”

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The Simulation of Conveyor Control System Using the Virtual Commissioning and Virtual Reality

Ružarovský¹,

Holubek²,

Sobrino³

et al. 2018

Adv. Sci. Technol. Res. J.

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Designing of the conveyors and its control system with control program through the design tool "Virtual Commissioning" is very important in the digital era Industry 4.0. Virtual Commissioning was recently used to perform realistic virtual simulations in the early stages of development processes in automation of the conveyors too. The main benefit is the possibility of integrating and testing the control system through the simulation on the virtual model even before physically constructing the conveyor. The contribution focuses on the possibilities of transforming a real conveyor into a virtual model in the Siemens Tecnomatix Process Simulate program and integrating the Siemens S7-300 real control system to control the conveyor itself. In the model it was allowed to test and perform numerous variations and situations without physical intervention into the real conveyor and possible damage functional parts including through virtual reality. These experiments were subsequently evaluated and the control system optimized with respect to material flow and the developed PLC code on virtual model was verified on real conveyor control system.

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Virtual commissioning: A tool to ensure effective system integration

Cited by 16 publications

References 8 publications

Applying Digital Twin Technology in Higher Education: An Automation Line Case Study

Applying Digital Twin Technology in Higher Education: An Automation Line Case Study

Engineering Method and Tool for the Complete Virtual Commissioning of Robotic Cells

The Simulation of Conveyor Control System Using the Virtual Commissioning and Virtual Reality

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