Research on selection of commercial industrial simulation software oriented to virtual commissioning

Abstract

Virtual commissioning can find problems in the PLC program earlier and improve the efficiency of on-site commissioning. When constructing the FMS digital twin system with Beckhoff TwinCAT as the master control system for virtual commissioning of the production line, in order to select the most suitable modeling environment, this paper conducts research of predecessors based on commercial industrial simulation software. The four common commercial industrial simulation software with virtual commissioning function (Visual Components, Tecnomatix Process Simulate, Emulate3D, Flexsim) are introduced, analysed and compared from the two perspectives of software functions and features. Finally, it explains which commercial simulation software should be used for simulation and virtual commissioning in different scenarios.