DELMIA Virtual Production for Production Performance
DELMIA Automation Offers a New Paradigm for Control Engineering
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DELMIA Automation helps to significantly reduce product launch time by allowing manufacturers to test, Validate, and debug your system before physical commissioning. DELMIA Automation offers powerful solutions for control engineering and automation lifecycle management that enables validation of this Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) against a virtual machine, a cell, or an entire line and the performance analysis of these systems.
DELMIA Automation solutions allow the control engineer to leverage the virtual model of the machine or cell to explore different “what if?” scenarios that are otherwise very difficult to validate. What if one robot is running slow? What happens when the line transitions from product A to product B? How will the system react to an operator hitting the emergency switch, and how the machine will start again after the emergency stop to resume full production rate? -- Weeks before integration of all components and systems occur, the control engineer can test all fault conditions, saving costly down time once the system is in production.
In addition to testing and debugging the PLC code, DELMIA Automation solutions allows the engineer to perform a virtual integration of all devices and check the engineering in the different disciplines. Are the hydraulic, pneumatic and electrical systems complete and properly defined? DELMIA Automation allows control departments to work in parallel and share information with mechanical and electrical departments earlier in the development process allowing optimization of engineering processes.
DELMIA Automation provides a natural extension to the DELMIA PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) offering. While PLM solutions simplify and enhance end-to-end product management, Automation solutions validate and improve the internal behavior of control systems. PLM Data can also be reused and integrated into DELMIA Automation for a truly powerful solution that extends beyond the product lifecycle cycle to secures a true digital factory vision.
Automation will be a key part of our end-to-end factory simulation improving global industrial performance.
What is Virtual Commissioning?
Virtual Commissioning allows the debugging of the code on an actual Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) that will be on the shop floor, weeks or months before the integration of all the devices from tooling, robots, clamps, safety devices, electrical, hydraulics and pneumatics on the shop floor occur.
Questions to ask Yourself to Address Your Manufacturing Challenges:
- Do you always meet your ramp-up to line rate schedules on new production systems?
- Are your delays in the schedule due to the first build?
- Are your delays in the schedule due to tear down and shipping?
- Are your delays in the schedule set-up time and re-debug on the shop floor?
- Do you have delays in the schedule of new production systems in engineering?
- What is the time and cost involved in training line operators?
By building a virtual environment in DELMIA Virtual Commissioning that is the exact reproduction of a production cell, a control engineer will be able to see this virtual cell come to life as it interacts with the PLC. DELMIA Virtual Commissioning solutions can save weeks in the debugging process by enabling the user to setup workcells with smart devices and link the logical behavior for those devices or machines in the workcell and simulate real production operations to validate them before commissioning on the shop floor.
Benefits:
- Work with any PLC on the market such as Schneider, & Omron, Rockwell Automation
- Ease-of-use allows a wider range and adoption of the technology
- Helps achieve a significant reduction in risk and start-up time
- Provides virtual production training with simulation
- Review safety aspects in a virtual 3D environment
- Reduce cost of ramp-up support during commissioning