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REAL-WORLD APPLICATION

Virtual commissioning and testing

Use Siemens Digital Twin to create a virtual replica of your automotive production line, boosting efficiency. Accelerate production ramp-up with virtual commissioning, validate producibility and continuously optimise your value chain using live production data from digital shadow.

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Challenge

Continuous adaptation and optimisation are needed for automotive production lines. Vehicle electrification creates complex, multi-platform production lines and delayed testing of automatic processes until lines are built leads to quality issues.

Solution

With Digital Twin virtual commissioning, you can test your production setup digitally before it’s built, reducing errors and saving time and money.

Simplify plant optimisation

The Siemens Digital Twin provides an accurate and interactive model for analysis and scenario testing. This risk-free environment leads to more efficient adjustments. Reduce engineering and commissioning time with early issue detection and virtual system optimisation.

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Early issue detection

Virtual commissioning enables comprehensive pre-testing digitally, so you can catch issues long before installation.

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Optimised engineering

Parallel development and accurate simulation minimise rework and downtimes.

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Simplified plant operation

A risk-free environment leads to more efficient adjustments.

CASE STUDY

Virtual Commissioning

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Company: Ingemat Engineering Solutions

Location: Spain

Siemens Software: Process Simulate (OLP&VC), S7-PLCSim Adv., Process Simulate

Ingemat chose Siemens for virtual commissioning of production lines and robot cells, leveraging our automotive expertise and digitalisation portfolio to reduce on-site changes, increase competitiveness and standardise engineering processes.

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