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 recent efforts promise to drive the country’s virtual transformation of production and economic recovery.
One such effort is the virtual factory test.The validation of the appliance and generation needed to maintain the plants and infrastructure operational prior to installation was performed on the user with the supplier and operator engineers, but the social distance and critical body regulations of workers temporarily replaced that.In reaction to COVID-19, many assignment and product managers relied extensively on virtual technologies to temporarily conduct online product acceptance and commissioning tests.
These virtual approaches have helped group allocation dynamics and protect workers across 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 company results.
In addition, assignment managers must move on to visitor factory acceptance tests.Remote testing can allow assignment managers to turn travel time into valuable painting 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, infrastructure brands and operators can improve the virtual testing strategies used by COVID-19, while acquiring the ability to perform long-term remote operations and maintenance.
Virtual FAT: from choice to need
By early March, plant managers guilty of ordering 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 in fulfilling customer orders.
As a result, many product commissioning groups have become virtual, a video conferencing platform, and virtual cameras to perform virtually FAT.Using video technology and webinars, the virtual solution reproduces the delight in person as much as possible.
What was once a theoretical control 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 virtual ATF through video, employing a dual virtual in product testing has been an option for some time.they play a more important role in the commissioning of the product and the broader procedure of testing a product, its structure and acceptance phases.
Virtual dual allows developers to perform an additional check of a product before building it using highly detailed physical and environmental simulations; once established, 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 be based on a highly informed position, which is of paramount importance, as the quality of an engineering task will have to be superior as soon as you can imagine in the product.life cycle.
The debugging capability and flexibility of a virtual commissioning procedure can help product developers achieve cost savings for themselves and customers.Increasing cost 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 witness an online functionality than is simply perceived in person.
The equipment can work perfectly in face-to-face testing, but 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 errors.factory before delivery of the product.
Virtual sessions also offer more staff the opportunity to engage and engage with consumers who may not see in person in a different way. For example, an assignment manager in one state can manage a virtual check at a factory in another state while communicating with a consumer sitting in a third location.
Taking into account so many variables preemptively accelerates physical production and, with it, shipping and installation on the customer’s premises.
Reducing equipment bottlenecks
Latency can be a problem with face-to-face acceptance tests.Instead of traveling to compare an unmarried team, 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 the virtual ATF, a manufacturer can send product information 24 to 48 hours after the unit is manufactured to show capacity to the customer, which can accelerate performance and provide 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 operates as expected through virtual testing can in particular reduce the time spent installing and commissioning the device in customer operation.
In fact, using virtual twins in the plan-making phase to locate potential errors or malfunctions, rather than in the progression lab (original parts rework), commissioning or genuine operation (the device that works at the customer’s factory), can save a lot.time and money.
The benefits of virtual testing and the commissioning strategies used may not have been as visual without the pandemic, but these approaches make sense and increase value.
These technologies only provide opposing safeguards to emerging disruptions and protections for human health, but also pathways to more competitive business models.
Ruth Gratzke is Senior Vice President of Siemens Smart Infrastructure in the US.But it’s not the first time Matt Schoessler is Vice President of Sales at Siemens Digital Industries.
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