DIGITAL TWINS
revolutionizing product development
Digital twins speed up design and engineering cycles and reduce costs by optimising R&D processes. Interacting with, or modifying a product or machine in a virtual environment is faster, easier and safer than doing so in the real world.
- A RISK-FREE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
- QUICKLY EVALUATE NEW DESIGNS
- DEEPER INSIGHT INTO THE BEHAVIOUR OF A PRODUCT OR MACHINE
- SIMULATE THE IMPACT OF NEW PROTOTYPES
- REDUCE THE COST OF TESTING AND PROTOTYPING
with digital twins, you make decisions with confidence that have a big impact on your product or machine.
how a digital twin can transform your product
Product Digital Twins create a virtual model of your physical product. This allows you to conduct thorough testing of your machine or product, predict bottlenecks and quickly perform virtual optimisation. Based on our experience, we have found that our customers like digital twin technology:
- INCREASE SALES BY UP TO 10%
- ACCELERATE TIME-TO-MARKET BY UP TO 50%
- IMPROVE PRODUCT QUALITY BY UP TO 25%
The technology is developing rapidly and is no longer preserved for market leaders.
with Dual, vintecc offers a digital-twin-as-a-service. Your questions answered with an affordable customized simulation.
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DIGITAL TWIN SOLUTION
a clear answer to your product needs
virtual commissioning
Virtual commissioning of machines avoid interrupting ongoing operations and minimize checks and physical tests.
- Reduce factory-floor commissioning time by up to 75%*.
- Test, debug, and validate PLC or machine software in advance.
- Reduce the risks and costs of physical testing or prototyping.
*Reinhart, G. & Wünsch, G. (2007). Economic application of virtual commissioning to mechatronic production systems. Production Engineering – Research and Development, 1(4), 371–379.
machine simulation & analysis
Save significant time during various stages of the product development process, resulting in faster delivery, fewer errors, faster optimization and lower costs!
- Avoid unnecessary guesswork during machine design.
- Quickly simulate different operational scenarios.
- Check machine dynamics and motion profiles, and avoid collisions before production.
machine PLC simulations
Digital twins connected to PLC software are a powerful tool to improve the design, validation, efficiency, and safety of industrial systems.
- Validate and test PLC code using a digital twin.
- Optimize PLC logic and system parameters for different operating modes, loads, and faults.
- Make unlimited changes to PLC logic until the desired result is achieved.
machine and yield optimization
Shorten the commissioning of new concepts or machines and produce at the right capacity faster.
- Explore 'what if' scenarios without having to experiment on the machine or the production process itself.
- Optimization of your existing hardware often already ensures more efficient production and products.
- Effortlessly reduce your amount of scrap and waste.
delivering value in product development
product optimization
Optimize complex product parameters, optimize your sequencing of operations and eliminate automation errors.
optimize your technology
Validating algorithms or PLC software in a simulated environment is safer and cheaper than real-world tests.
reduce physical trials & prototypes
No need to test new product designs in real-life. Test virtual and save a lot of ressources, modifications, time and thus money.
accelerate time to market
Digital twins allow finding design solutions between cross-functional development teams and reduces the time taken to reach agreement.
validate machine design
Simulations can help identify valuable improvements and optimize your machine performance and profitability.
improve future product generations
Incorporating data from real products into simulations, allow you to upgrade and develop future control software or product designs.
cost-effective decision making
Gain a comprehensive 360° view of your product performance, empowering data-driven decisions to reduce or optimize costs.
handling high level of complexity
Include an AI/ML-agent to evaluate the likely performance of new designs in seconds and drastically cut the overall end-to-end design cycle times.
no need for in-house talent
Dual, vintecc’s digital-twin-as-a-service platform solves the problem of a lack of in-house talent capable of building and deploying a digital twin solution.
integrate in your industry 4.0 approach
A digital twin can seamlessly connect all complex data sources in such a way that insights are consistently formed, creating a single source of truth.
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visualize
- Collect and verify data about your product, machine process, or system complexity.
- Think CAD-, PLC-, mechanical-data, and more. All input is welcome.
- Based on your needs we start with a minimum viable product and gradually add complexity as needed.
- Our simulation engineers help you setting up your digital twin in record time.
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set objectives
- To effectively use a simulation, you must define your machine objectives, constraints, and performance indicators precisely.
- Accuracy is increased as real-time data, speed and physics can be included.
- Simulation parameters and variables are added to set-up multiple simulation scenario’s.
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test scenarios
- Our simulation platform Dual allows you to set, run and compare different simulation parameters.
- Connect to your PLC/control software. Dual supports common industrial protocols and co-simulations.
- Setting different parameters you gain insights into how your product/machine operates in different scenarios.
- To speed up scenario’s we can easily multiple time with a factor of x30.
- Our simulation engineers can help you simulating the required scenario’s.
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analyze & optimize
- The outcome of different simulation scenarios is delivered to you.
- Your team can analyze the outcome and easily request, set or deliver new simulation parameters to optimize the process.
- Make endless iterations on your PLC or control software.
- Our data analytics team can support you in identifying the perfect process optimization with help of AI algorithms.
use case
virtual commissioning
The New Holland IntelliFill™ system enables operators to drive the harvester while filling a trailer accurately even when visibility is limited.
Fast iterations of the algorithm model were possible. Using the simulation model, the development time could be cut in half. The team spent less time doing bug fixing.
use case
machine simulation
For our client we created a digital model of a new load assist system and tested different handling scenarios before the machine was built.
Using virtual simulation we were able to test client specific communication protocols, simulate real-time physics and improve the PLC-software.
at vintecc, we help you set up your simulation so you can simulate and analyse multiple scenarios.
product development made easy with Dual
Dual is vintecc’s digital-twin-as-service platform
- We start with a simple and basic simulation model and gradually add complexity as needed.
- You gain insight into your product or machine by simulating different scenarios and new prototypes.
- AI & digital twins are the perfect duo. The digital twin is no longer a mirror image, but can even predict the best optimization.
- Building an in-house team from scratch is time-consuming and costly. The best alternative is to create a replica with Dual, vintecc's affordable and reliable digital-twin-as-a-service solution.
Dual is a device agnostic platform
This means that machine data can be integrated from different software sources such as PLC data, IoT sensors, industrial machine protocols… and more. Third party API’s can be integrated as well.
curious how digital twins can work for your company?
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