Lenze at the Hannover Messe Digital
Applications of the digital twin
In the future, the digital twin will be as commonplace as the provision of data sheets on the website is today. This is why Lenze has been researching the digital twin for several years and is now taking further steps towards its application.
Developers and designers can use a web service, the Easy System Designer, to create the first digital image of a machine. Further web services then enrich this structure directly with technical data and documentation of the devices used. The resulting digital twin creates a new standardized and automated consistency of data and information and is therefore the basis for use in other tools and applications. And these are just the first steps.
"We will provide asset data for our system components, such as the digital type plate, technical data and documentation, via web services. This may not sound very exciting at first, but the added value over the entire life cycle of a system is enormous - because this data is passed on from engineering to commissioning and maintenance," explains Patrick Bruder, Business Development Manager Automation at Lenze.
Common data master
The provision of component data by the supplier simplifies integration processes in the development project. The aim is to bring products to market more quickly and cost-effectively by avoiding duplicate modeling work and, ideally, completely hardware-free development.
The automation specialists from Hamelin want to move away from the pure visualization of a product. A digital twin is the complete digital representation of a machine or system in all its aspects. It is not necessarily a specific file or a specific model, but rather a bracket around all versioned and referenced data of a product. This means that all tools can work on a common data master over the product life cycle, which is successively supplemented with additional information.
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