Virtual commissioning of an industrial production cell

Sammanfattning: Nowadays, in the manufacturing industry, it is essential to test new ideas before implementing them. In this way they avoid making unnecessary expenses and losing time. This is why virtual commissioning is being implemented in many places. In this case, Simumatik, a company that develops an open emulation platform, wants to create an emulator to show their potential customers the opportunities their software offers. That being said, the aim of this project is the just mentioned one, to create a demonstrator of a collaborative indutrial cell as well as a simple industrial robotic cell. The design and creation methodology has been followed, which is a five phase method. After making a research about the devices, that are nowadays used in the manufacturing industry, the frame of reference and the literature review of this project have been studied. Subsequently, the development of the project has taken place, which involved creating and programming the necessary components (products, sensors, actuators…) as well as programming two robots along with the control program of the entire system. At the same time all this process has been taking place, the implementation of the components has been carried out. Some of the main conclusions drawn from this project are that sufficient time is crucial when creating a realistic industrial production cell that fulfills the expectations. Additionally, the difficulty in representing a realistic system lies in achieving the desired level of accuracy for both the individual components and the system’s overall performance.