Even outside of the actual mechanical engineering - from conception to go-live - a virtual commissioning with ISG-virtuos brings advantages.

• For the sales department: The sales engineer does not have to resort to drawings, photos and videos of an existing plant that may not meet the current customer requirements. Instead, he shows him a moving, already customized 3D model and can even run through different layouts or designs with him.
• In service and research & development: Virtual commissioning is also used for existing plants to test alternative scenarios in terms of their feasibility, cost effects and process optimization. For new developments, the time-to-market is shortened considerably.
• In training and further education: New employees benefit from virtual commissioning data by receiving hands-on training - on digital plants whose counterparts exist in real life. The digital twin can also be used for training operating personnel and in the training of apprentices and students.

Thanks to virtual commissioning with ISG-virtuos, the entire value chain can be mapped digitally and optimized both technologically and organizationally - for example, with regard to supply chains.

Increasingly, component manufacturers are supplying not only the real components but also their digital images: Interfaces, parameters and key behavioral characteristics are replicating reality. The structure of the digital twins of intelligent components corresponds to the structure of the real systems. The component models, templates and interfaces available in the TwinStore enable simulation tool users to model and perform high-quality simulation for virtual design, validation and commissioning.

Users select the components they need from the virtual product catalogs of the companies represented in the TwinStore. Extensive documentation is stored for each simulation model, containing information about the functions available in the model.

Thanks to the seamless integration of TwinStore components in ISG-virtuos, these and, if necessary, other customer-specific components are then combined and used directly in the simulation tool to form the digital twin of the individual plant: Be it for a virtual commissioning or also parallel to operation for e.g. training purposes or service cases.

In an industry as diverse as wood processing, market-driven production costs, short throughput times and low inventories are crucial. For this, flexible and well thought-out automation solutions are needed, whose most diverse application scenarios should already be extensively tested with the delivery. 

This is where our simulation platform ISG-virtuos comes into play together with ISG-dirigent. With ISG-dirigent, a wide variety of tests of simulation models and control software (PLC, CNC) are performed automatically and thus reproducibly and qualitatively secured. In the automated test of control software, the behavior is tested both in normal and in the usually much larger number of irregular operating cases and recorded in a sequence protocol and test report. Thus, an audit-proof test documentation is available for delivery.

Speed and a high level of quality are often either very costly or difficult to combine. In an industry where both are essential to keep your head in the race, innovative and simple solutions are in high demand. 

ISG, for example, has been deeply anchored in the field of simulation for several years. Be it with machine and plant manufacturers, component manufacturers, engineering offices, system integrators or the manufacturers as operators of the plants.

We have noticed that, in contrast to a few years ago, when suppliers were the driving force behind the use of virtual commissioning, manufacturers are now increasingly demanding that their suppliers deliver an operational digital twin to the real plant. 

In most cases, the combination of our simulation platform ISG-virtuos and the TwinStore is used. 

In the TwinStore, on the one hand, individual components already created by component manufacturers or simulation specialists - such as ISG - can be obtained in order to build up a simulation model more quickly. Here, too, our customers provide their suppliers with specially created libraries of special components to ensure standardization and the associated quality assurance of the digital twins of the plants.

In ISG-virtuos, a wide variety of systems and processes can be modeled and extensively tested in control real time.

Plants in the field of medical technology and pharmaceuticals must meet the most stringent requirements, and they must be tested and commissioned with corresponding care. Automated testing of the control technology and the virtual plant can be performed using ISG-dirigent and documented in the form of test documentation.

In ISG-virtuos, fast and small-scale processes can be mapped using real-time physics simulation to meet the high requirements of this industry. 

Especially in the food industry, the requirements for smooth, accurate and, above all, fast production and manufacturing are very high. The focus is on factors such as energy efficiency, hygiene and reliability. This makes it all the more important to have a suitable combination of different machine applications in order to be able to access an efficient automation solution in the end. 

Especially combinatorics, interlinking and the related test scenarios can be optimally mapped in ISG-virtuos - and thus the plant can be put through its paces and statements on the output of a plant can be made.