Challenges & Objectives
Seeking to take the next step in the digitalisation of its value chain, SOLU-TECH aimed to improve collaboration between mechanical, electrical and automation engineers during the design phases.
Objectives:
- To reduce commissioning times at customer sites through the virtual commissioning of machines in advance.
- To provide clients with tools to boost industrial performance by streamlining their production lines with advanced digital tools.
Challenges:
- To reduce testing and commissioning times prior to production.
- To optimise collaboration between technical teams.
- Evaluate concepts and validate specifications.
Key to success
- Deployment and training of teams in 3 days by DV DIGITAL.
- Precise identification of requirements to serve as the basis for prototyping.
- Completion of a POC: full modelling of the line’s mechanisms in NX, with virtual simulation of the digital twin in NX MCD.
DV DIGITAL Solution: NX MCD Digital Twin
With NX Mechatronics Concept Designer, engineers design complex systems using simplified models. They can quickly define a specialised machine incorporating sensors, actuators, joints, conveyor belts, etc.
Virtual simulation enables:
- Animation of models taking into account the laws of physics (gravity, acceleration).
- Early detection of design flaws through the animation and simulation of collisions or falling parts.
Customer benefits
- Faster design decisions thanks to the digital twin
- Shorter machine design lead times
- Improved communication between teams (design, production, projects, installation)
- Virtual validation of installations prior to commissioning at the customer’s site
- Reduction in technical risks during the actual installation phase
- Reduction in design and integration errors
- Optimisation of project time (more time for validation, less for correction)
- Ensuring safe commissioning at customer sites
- Improvement in the overall quality of projects
- Increased reliability and industrial performance
