What is system simulation for Industrial Equipment and why does it matter ?

System simulation for industrial equipment models how mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and software systems work together before hardware exists. Engineers use it to validate performance early, reducing costly design issues down the line.

How does system simulation reduce development costs and risks in Industrial Equipment ?

System simulation catches design issues before costly physical testing begins. It validates scenarios virtually, cutting rework, prototype builds and late-stage failures—lowering budgets and strengthening reliability.

What role do Virtual Twins play in Industrial Equipment simulation ?

A virtual twin mirrors how a machine behaves under real conditions, letting engineers simulate performance, predict failures and optimize designs across the full lifecycle—linking design, testing and operation into a single source of truth.

How does system simulation accelerate time-to-market for Industrial Equipment ?

System simulation runs design, integration and validation in parallel, so teams don't wait for physical prototypes. This shortens development cycles and helps manufacturers bring new equipment to market faster.

Dymola Solutions for Industrial Equipment

Design, test and optimize industrial machinery and production lines virtually with Dymola's high-fidelity multi-domain simulation software.

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Simulate First. Build with Confidence

Before a single component hits the factory floor, simulate it. Dymola lets you design, test, and optimize industrial equipment in a high-fidelity virtual environment from hydraulic and pneumatic systems to full production lines. Reduce risk, eliminate bottlenecks, and maximize process efficiency before any physical deployment.

Industrial Equipment Libraries

Process Modeling

Industrial Mixing & Fluid Processing Machinery

Accelerate process innovation with a comprehensive library of high-fidelity models for thermal separation, extraction, phase separation, and chemical reaction systems. Develop, test, and optimize complex process plants in a virtual environment, reducing engineering effort, minimizing risk, and shortening time to market.

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Pneumatic Systems

High-Speed Factory Automation & Pick-and-Place

Accelerate factory automation throughput. The Pneumatic solution empowers machinery manufacturers to model high-speed pneumatic cylinders, directional valves, and vacuum pick-and-place systems. Capture precise thermodynamic heat transfers and non-linear flow restrictions to optimize energy consumption, shrink cycle times, and prevent industrial machine downtime.

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Fluid Power

Critical Aircraft Hydraulic Actuation

Ensure reliability for flight-critical actuation systems. The FluidPower Library allows aerospace engineers to virtualize complete aircraft hydraulic networks, including landing gear deployment and flight control surfaces. Simulate transient cavitation risks, extreme temperature-dependent fluid viscosity changes, and component failures to thoroughly test safety margins and control system backups.

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Flexible Bodies

High-Speed Flexible simulation and visualization

Achieve easy modeling and simulation of mechanical systems that comprise a mixture of rigid elements and flexible structures such as beams, annular plates, anti-roll bars and bodies of any shape. The Flexible Bodies solution empowers engineers to incorporate the analysis of of flexible bodies into their models, where the gross motion of the floating frame of reference and the small elastic deformation are superimposed.

Animate the torsion, lengthening or other deformations for visualization. Import finite element (FEM) structures directly into multi-body system models with a Standard Input Data (SID) file.

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Sustainable Supply Systems

Discrete Material Flow & Production Buffer Optimization

Master the complexity of decentralized energy grids. The Sustainable Supply Systems (SuSy) solution provides a robust, drag-and-drop environment to model interconnected hybrid energy systems spanning electricity, heat, fuels, and water. Designed for the early conceptual phases when extensive parameter data is scarce, SuSy simulates a full year of multi-domain operations in under ten seconds. Rapidly evaluate techno-economic tradeoffs—balancing upfront capital expenditure against 20-year utility savings and carbon reduction targets. Optimize district heating networks, evaluate smart-building grids, and bridge the gap between initial feasibility studies and real-time control strategy deployment.

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ClaRaPlus

Power Plants and Energy Systems

Create digital twins of power plants and energy systems to analyse transient behaviour, gain deeper system understanding, and optimize performance for future energy markets. ClaRaPlus supports all project phases, from concept evaluation and component design to control optimization, virtual commissioning, and operation. It is designed for conventional and renewable power plants, waste heat recovery and ORC systems, industrial energy systems, refrigeration cycles and heat pumps, district heating networks, and the interaction between electrical grids and power plants, among many other applications.

Industrial Process Simulation

Automation Tuning for Process Machinery

Deliver highly reliable process simulation. The Industrial Process Simulation solution empowers equipment manufacturers to design, size, and verify multi-domain industrial processes. Combine standard components like pumps, heat exchangers, valves, and pressurized vessels with domain specific models to construct digital twins of complex pulp & paper, steam, or mining processing systems. Optimize and validate automated control system code directly against realistic plant physics loops prior to physical manufacturing. Shave weeks off your structural commissioning timelines, eliminate layout errors early, and easily export high-fidelity models to client operator-training platforms for value-added simulation delivery.