Title
Digital Twin for Legacy Systems: Simulation Model Testing and Validation
Abstract
In this paper, an approach to incorporate a digital twin for legacy production systems is presented. Hardware-in-the-loop setups are routinely used by manufacturing companies to carry out virtual commissioning. However, manufacturing companies having online legacy production systems are still struggling to incorporate a digital twin due to the absence of verified and validated simulation models. Companies that use virtual commissioning as a part of their engineering tool chain, usually perform offline verification of the simulation model. This approach is typically based on visual inspection and is a tedious task as each aspect of the model has to be visually validated. For legacy systems, only assessing the behavior visually in the absence of updated documents can result in an incorrect simulation model, i.e. simulating incorrect behavior with respect to the specification. Due to this, such simulation models cannot be incorporated in the engineering tool chain, as the simulated results can lead to improper decisions and can even cause equipment damage. This paper presents a platform and an approach, based on model-based testing, that is a first step for manufacturing companies to incorporate a validated simulation model for existing online production systems that will serve as a digital twin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/COASE.2018.8560338
2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)
Keywords
Field
DocType
legacy systems,incorrect simulation model,engineering tool chain,model-based testing,manufacturing companies,validated simulation model,online production systems,digital twin,simulation model testing,hardware-in-the-loop setups,virtual commissioning,online legacy production systems,verified simulation models,validated simulation models
Visual inspection,Software engineering,Computer science,Project commissioning,Simulation modeling,Model-based testing,Legacy system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2161-8070
978-1-5386-3594-0
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adnan Khan121.12
Martin Dahl210.77
Petter Falkman34610.37
Martin Fabian420427.91