Report - WinMOD Real-Time Simulation Center for Automation

Software Testing and Process Simulation with WinMOD
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Mewes & Partner
WinMOD System Software 5
Real-Time Simulation Center for Automation Technologyy
WinMOD 5 for extended and intensified use
of WinMOD Simulations in Automation Technology:
· Efficient engineering of WinMOD projects.
· Extended functionality with simulation elements.
· Purposeful information for comprehensive simulation.
The WinMOD System Platform has proven and developed its performance
during more than a decade of application of real-time simulation
in automation technology. The experience gained by our customers
and the visions for new applications and usages guided the development
of WinMOD 5.
WinMOD 5 brings significant developments in systematics of simulation
during the engineering as well as during the usage of simulation
projects:
•Additional
applications in further industrial sectors.
•Extended
depth of simulation, for deeper software testing and new
usages in planning, service and operator training.
•Fundamental
optimization of work flows.
The advances and benefits of WinMOD are significant and will become
indispensable in the future. This proven technology saves costs, improves
quality with clear competitive advantages.
Experience fromApplication
Strongly shortening commissioning
times by assured software quality
played the dominant role for the application
of WinMOD. The required software
tests take place with a real-time
simulation of the real installation and a
real-time coupling with the real control
system hardware or a compatible soft-
PLC.
These goals were achieved with great
success, in especially where installations
are not yet available for software
testing, where a large spatial distance
to the construction site exists, or
where modernizations have to be performed
reliably within shortest commissioning
times.
What are the global trends in
automatization ?
Pre-testing automation software with
the WinMOD Simulation of a machine
or an installation is broadly recognized
as a considerable advantage.
As a consequence, WinMOD Simulations
are increasingly required in
tender documents.
Automation System SPS SPS SPS
Real Virtuell
This poses tangible requirements to
project design and project handling. It
has to be possible to easily exchange
simulation projects between suppliers
and customers, and the re-usability of
simulation models has to be increased.
The depth of simulation has to be extended,
in order to develop further usages
like planning installations and optimizing
the automation software.
These are the global future trends that
form the foundation for the advancement
of the WinMOD System Software.
They form three lines of development
(Figure 1).
Efficient Engineering with
Project Standards
Efficient work flows are supported by
extended functionality. Project performance
can be unified by company
specific definitions and simulation projects
are efficiently embedded into operating
procedures. With the
W i n M O D A d d - o n " W i n M O D
EngineeringAssistance" the automatic
creation of WinMOD Projects is
enabled.
Rationality
- utilization of engineering-data
- devices- and process libraries
- automatic project generation
Transparency
- online-monitoring of signals
- manuell interaction
- analysis of functions
Functionality
- virtuell devices
- manufacturing simulation
- process simulation
Figure 1: WinMOD 5: The lines of development focus on
the user. Optimal handling and extended utilizations bring clear
advantages in efficiency, quality and costs.

Device Simulation
Process Simulation
Figure 2: The WinMOD System Platform combines various representations
and simulation models with sectoral optimizations of
project design and workflows.
Rationality, Functionality, Transparency
and Controllability
The WinMOD simulation elements are
the fundament for the excellent realtime
performance of the simulation of
component behavior as it is typical for
WinMOD.
With little efforts the elements are configured
to form devices, modules or
process models. These are used repetitively
in further simulation projects.
This proceeding is the key for efficient
work, for clearness of results
and for control of complexity and size.
In WinMOD 5, state and flow machines
were developed that are easy
to handle and to configure. They are
used for the simulation of intelligent devices
like frequency converters and
robots.
Simulation elements support the requirements
of transport simulation for
piece goods handling and for bulk material.
With configurable table elements characteristic
curves, signal progressions
and material sequences are defined,
possibly based on recordings from
real installations.
Further elements facilitate the simulation
of operator panels of components
and enable descriptive visualization.
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Recordings
Signal Map
Extensive Functions for Purposeful
Information during the use of
WinMOD Projects
In order to use WinMOD Projects without
special qualification, and in order
to facilitate using WinMOD as a
means to specify the behavior of devices,
machines and installations,
new innovative functions were introduced.
These include tool tips, directly
following cross references, textual
and visual animations and further improvements.
The functions are integrated
into the respective user interface
areas.
ExpandedApplication area
WinMOD 5 is well proven in practical
application. The concepts and their implementation
met a very good response
at the users. Many companies
also use the systematic introduction of
WinMOD by project consulting and
support by the Application Engineering
of Mewes & Partner.
Numerous reference projects are
available with optimized workflows for
Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) and
validation of process install-ations, for
the virtual machine with 3Dvisualization,
for virtual commissioning
of manufacturing cells for automotive
body-in-white, for the test of traffic
facilities in waterway construction, for
transport installations for piece goods
and bulk material.
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Applications in all areas shows that
the concepts, systematics and
workflows drastically reduce efforts
and extend utilization. Through increases
in efficiency and performance,
WinMOD 5 is a quasi-standard
in its class.
How to proceed ?
The WinMOD System will permanently
adapted to real changes within
the automation industry, e.g. automation
systems. High benefits for the
user and the development of further
application areas for WinMOD simulation
projects are substantial goals. In
addition to new possibilities for simulation,
the systematic application of
WinMOD is important, in especially
the questions:
• What is to be tested?
• How will it be tested ?
• Where will evaluation and
documentation take place?
•When
will testing take place already
during planning ?
These and further questions will be
tackled, together with our users.
Further developments are in progress
or already completed, in especially
for WinMOD Add-Ons and WinMOD
System Configurations:
•Further
development of the Add-On
WinMOD-3DView with 3D Assistent
and Communications Editor.
•New
System Configurations for automation
systems from Siemens,
PHOENIX CONTACT, Bernecker +
Rainer (B & R), BECKHOFF, etc.
•New
Configurations for PROFINET,
for EtherNet/IP, for Modbus TCP/IP
and INTERBUS G4.
As the result, the WinMOD Simulation
Platform is
• open for all systems,
• open for all technologies,
• open for all utilizations.
The further increase of customer satisfaction
remains the company goal of
Mewes & Partner. WinMOD 5 is the
right step to this direction.
You can participate !
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