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What was once a theoretical verification option became a necessity, the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted U.S. production as the core of U.S. infrastructure.
Manufacturing priorities have become national priorities as leaders rethink the industry’s roles for a more resilient future. And ongoing efforts promise to drive the virtual transformation of the country’s production and economic recovery.
One such effort is the factory virtual test. The validation of the appliance and the generation needed to maintain the plants and infrastructure operational prior to installation was done in user with engineers from suppliers and operators, but the social estrangement and critical regulations of the workers’ body temporarily replaced that. In reaction to COVID-19, many assignment and product managers relied extensively on having virtual technologies to temporarily bring product acceptance and commissioning testing online.
These virtual approaches have helped group allocation dynamics and worker protection by supporting physical distance to reduce the threat of viral exposure. Giving consumers the ability to log in and view a remote acceptance check can also help the company’s results.
In addition, assignment managers must move on to visitors’ factory acceptance tests. Remote testing can allow assignment managers to convert travel time into valuable paint time.
All of this highlights an even greater opportunity as brands try to prepare for long-term shocks in the form of some other pandemic, excessive weather and more. By leveraging virtual technologies, brands and infrastructure operators can improve the virtual testing strategies used by COVID-19, while gaining the ability to perform long-term remote operations and maintenance.
Virtual FAT: from option to need
By early March, plant managers guilty of commissioning products across the country had begun to realize that physical distance regulations to combat COVID-19 would reduce in-person factory acceptance testing (FAT), one step to meet customer orders.
As a result, many product commissioning groups have become virtual, using a video conferencing platform and virtual cameras to virtually carry out the ATF. Using webinar and video technology, the virtual solution reproduces the user’s joy as it should be.
What was once a theoretical verification option has become a necessity for production to continue the early stages of the pandemic in the United States.
Digital Twin: complete product start-up
Like the virtual ATF via video, the use of a virtual double in product testing has been an option for some time. Now, motivated by the same cases that arose from the pandemic that led to the adoption of remote FAT video, virtual dual generation is about to play a more important role in the commissioning of the product and the broader procedure of testing a product, its structure and acceptance phases. .
Dual virtual allows developers to additionally verify a product before building it through highly detailed physical and environmental simulations; Once set, numerical simulations can be adjusted to take into account the variables found in production, offering a deeper verification process.
This validates the operating habit of the device before and during manufacturing. Actual commissioning and production can start from a highly informed position, which is of paramount importance as the quality of an engineering task will have to be higher as soon as possible in the product lifecycle.
The prospect of debugging and the flexibility of a virtual commissioning procedure can help product developers achieve cost savings for themselves and their customers. Increasing load savings on production lines has the ability to generate more business and charge significant value.
More brains in the room.
Another key merit of virtual testing via video and dual virtual programs is the ability for more people to attend an online functionality that can be noticed in person.
The team can paint perfectly in face-to-face tests, however, when it arrives at the site, customer engineers expect something different. As more and more people can participate in a virtual remote test, they may encounter factory errors before delivering the product.
Virtual sessions will also give more staff the opportunity to engage and engage with consumers they wouldn’t otherwise see in person. For example, an assignment manager in one state can manage a virtual check at a factory in another state while communicating with a consumer in a third location.
Having so many variables taken into account in a preventive way accelerates physical production and, with it, shipping and installation in the customer’s home.
Reducing bottlenecks for equipment
Latency can be one thing with face-to-face acceptance tests. Instead of traveling to compare single equipment, consumers can wait until a full multi-portion order is ready. If a visitor has ordered 10 analyzers, for example, and nine are finished but production of the tenth component is delayed, acceptance testing for the entire order may be delayed.
With virtual ATF, a manufacturer can send product knowledge 24 to 48 hours after the drive is produced to display capacity to the customer. This can accelerate performance and deliver data to consumers much faster.
Product developers can use a dual virtual to debug various codes in a virtual environment before the software is programmed on a physical appliance. Ensuring that the automation appliance works as expected through virtual testing can particularly reduce the time spent installing and starting the device in client operation.
In fact, the use of virtual twins in the phase of drawing up plans to locate possible errors or malfunctions, which in the progression lab (reworking genuine parts), at the beginning or when operating in the true global (the device operating in the customer’s factory) can save a lot of time and money.
The benefits of virtual testing and commissioning methods being used today might not have become so visible without the pandemic. Yet, such approaches make sense and provide value.
These technologies only provide safeguards opposed to disruptions and emerging protections for human health, but also paths to more competitive business models.
Ruth Gratzke is senior vice president of Siemens Smart Infrastructure of the U.S. Matt Schoessler is vice president of sales for Siemens Digital Industries.
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