Faster projects thanks to the digital twin
The digital twin is revolutionizing processes along the entire value creation chain. It gives you a virtual image of the product, production or performance, which allows you to seamlessly link the individual process steps. It increases efficiency overall, minimizes the error rate, shortens develop-ment cycles and also opens up new business models.
Zimmer Group offers support for engineering and virtual commissioning through movable 3D models for almost all CAD systems. Furthermore, Zimmer Group offers intelligent digital twins for the leading VIBN systems (ISG Virtuous including TwinStore and Siemens MCD). These already contain the physical behavioral models and communication interfaces for carrying out your automation in advance using a virtual PLC in addition to the normal engineering process. This makes it possible to create and test large parts of the PLC program in the virtual environment at an early stage.
INFORMATION
- Provision of 4D models of our components for setting up digital twins via CADENAS for Siemens MCD and via the TwinStore for ISG Virtuos (a)
- Creating digital twins for complex installations and systems (b)
GETTING THE SYSTEM UP AND RUNNING FASTER THANKS TO A DIGITAL TWIN
The digital twin virtualZ revolutionizes the processes performed throughout the life cycle of a system. In the design phase, virtualZ from Zimmer Group provides support in testing the system functionality and capacity based on a model-in-the-loop simulation by providing module and component models for the digital twin. In the development and commissioning phases, virtualZ offers comprehensive options for simulations from the software-in-the-loop simulation to the hardware-in-the-loop real-time simulation. In the operational phase of the system, the digital twin virtualZ can operate as a digital shadow in a virtual space with a time delay from the real system to perform optimizations and validations via test runs in the virtual world. The digital shadow can interpolate wear in advance or display notes on the causes of this wear using comparison data.