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Virtual commissioning and Virtual Reality

Virtual commissioning and virtual reality

Virtualization has long since found its way into everyday industrial life and is opening up new potential for optimizing processes. onoff engineering is implementing a digital model of a metal forming system in a customer project. The result: the plant operator can “walk through” and operate the virtual plant using VR glasses and controllers. The required products are inserted into the forming system as semi-finished products, then the forming process is started by two-hand operation and the finished product is removed – all digitally, in virtual 3D space and without any risk for man or machine.

Project goals

  • Increase planning and training quality through the use of virtual reality (VR)
  • Interaction between man and machine is implemented in the digital model with virtual reality (VR)
  • Virtual commissioning takes place with the “walk-in system”
  • Training for system operators as well as maintenance and servicing are carried out realistically

Characteristics

Commissioning on the digital model

Going digital in the system

Real operation – virtual reality

Technical realization

  • Development of the digital twin in 3D and coupling with the system control (SIEMENS TIA S7-1516F)
  • For virtual commissioning (VIBN), the machine or system design was exported from CAD into virtual reality (VR), virtually equipped with the automation components and connected to the programming systems for commissioning the prepared software
  • In order to be able to depict reality for the system operator, the representation takes place via “virtual reality” in the room

Project summary

Thanks to the smooth coordination of assembly and commissioning by the companies involved, the project objective was achieved without any significant delays in the individual trades.

Thanks to the modular automation system implemented by SpiraTec, the customer is able to realize a highly flexible production of active ingredients for several products with short changeover times. This allows production to react quickly to the respective customer and market requirements within a short period of time.