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SIMIT for simulating new machines during development

SIMIT allows you to simulate the interaction between your machine tool or production machine and your automation system at all stages of product development, from commissioning through to sales and after-sales.

Long before you finish developing a machine and building a prototype, you can simulate its performance using SIMIT. For this purpose, the automation system is simply coupled with a virtual behavioral model of the machine. This coupling has been optimized for high-performance machine tools and production machines with state-of-the-art control technology from Siemens such as SINUMERIK and SIMATIC.

Your automation system – fully integrated

SIMIT is a simulation system that supports a wide range of hardware and software interfaces to the automation system: PROFIBUS, PROFINET, PRODAVE, PLCSIM, PLCSIM Advanced, SIMIT Virtual Controller, External Coupling, OPC and Shared Memory. If you want to connect the entire Control Unit, e.g. including the CNC, PLC and the Human Machine Interface to a machine model in SIMIT, you can simply use a hardware interface for PROFIBUS. The axis values of the CNC are transferred to the PLC using the software option SINUMERIK Run MyCC /ADAS and thus become visible for SIMIT. SIMIT provides consistent support for the exchange of data with the engineering environment of your automation system.

SIMIT makes simulation as simple as it can be

Even though computer simulation is often regarded as a highly complex process, you do not need to be a simulation specialist to work effectively with SIMIT. All you need to do is operate the ergonomically designed, graphical user interface of SIMIT, while the application itself processes all mathematical and IT procedures associated with the simulation invisibly in the background. Furthermore, a 3D VRML Viewer (integrated in SIMIT) permits simple visualization of machines and plants.

In addition, it can also be connected to tools such as the Siemens PLM Mechatronics Concept Designer via the Shared Memory interface – for extensive 3D physics simulation.

SIMIT – modeling the machine

Based on a modular principle, the simulation model of the machine is created on the SIMIT graphical user interface by the joining together of individual components and Control Units. Simulation elements are simply dragged from the library and dropped into the machine model. The extensive basic library supplied with SIMIT provides you not only with standard arithmetic and logic functions, but also blocks for interfacing a broad range of I/Os of your automation system.

Using SIMIT’s component type editor, you can create completely new types of component and use them in your simulations. You can freely define the connections and states of these component types as well as their functional and graphical response, allowing you to work extremely efficiently even when your machine models are complex.

SIMIT Unit

The coupling with SIMIT allows an efficient engineering workflow for hardware-in-the loop simulation. Carrying out load tests and safety tests prior to actual commissioning ensures added protection for personnel and for the machine/system, as well as a reduction in time and costs due to error detection at an early stage.

Simulation of PROFINET

The SIMIT Unit PN offers a comprehensive, reaction-free simulation of the behavior of up to 256 PROFINET I/O devices at the fieldbus in real time.

Simulation of PROFIBUS

The SIMIT Unit PB-2 offers a comprehensive and reaction-free simulation of the behavior of up to 125 PROFIBUS devices at the fieldbus in real time.

• SIMIT combines savings in time and cost with enhanced product quality in machine tool and production machine building. SIMIT supports you during key phases of the development of machine tool and production machine products: development, commissioning, testing, and service.
• The automation solution used, including all of the software modules developed by the machine manufacturer, can be tested with SIMIT in advance and in a reproducible manner – all without having the real “steel and iron” version of the machine at hand.
• A new machine can be tested without being subjected to any risk since proper functioning is checked in virtual reality. After the development work on the new machine has been completed, the virtual machine that has been generated can also be used for training, pre-sales and after-sales purposes.

Four software packages ranging from SIMIT Engineering S to SIMIT Engineering XL are graded in accordance with the project size. SIMIT can therefore be ideally adapted to all individual requirements. The software packages do not have any differences in functionality.

The following functions are available for SIMIT Engineering:

• Portal view with workflow management for creation of the simulation project
• Standard components library
• 3D viewer based on the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)
• Interfaces for PROFIBUS DP, PROFINET IO, and PRODAVE
• Interface for SIMIT Virtual Controller and OPC DA
• Trends and messages (TME)
• Scripting environment
• Editor for the creation of macro components (MCE)
• Editor for the creation of dynamic graphics and animations (DGE)
• Automatic Control Interface (ACI)
• Automatic generation of signal lists from SIMATIC Manager data
• Runtime for components developed using the component type editor
• Interfaces S7-PLCSIM, S7-PLCSIM Advanced, OPC UA and Remote Control
• Change of the simulation model during runtime
• Simulation in a virtual period
• Engineering efficiency for SIMATIC PCS 7 (SMD)
• Automatic generating of models based on templates
• Bulk engineering
• Shared Memory interface as high-performance coupling
• XML interface for the automatic generation of models and connections
• Development environment CTE for own components (optional, not included in the engineering package)

Requirements:

• Operating system:
  • Windows 7 Professional SP1 (32/64 bit)
  • Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 (32/64 bit)
  • Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (32/64 bit)
  • Windows 10 LTSB 2015 (32/64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2016 (64 bit)
• Software option
  SINUMERIK Run MyCC /ADAS axis data output via PROFIBUS