What is the best way to transfer design changes in existing systems to existing digital twins? At SPS 2019, Aucotec AG will be showcasing solutions based on its own Engineering Base (EB) platform. The EB platform works with the „OPC UA“ interface standard and recognises when a device in the system has been changed or replaced.
The new „Hart IP Gateway“ from Phoenix Contact, which can be easily clamped onto a top-hat rail in the field distribution board and can convert the usual hard signals of the devices into OPC UA „translated“, explains Aucotec.
Engineering was developed in co-operation with Phoenix Contact
Aucotec and Phoenix Contact will present this solution at the SPS 2019 after it celebrated its public premiere at the Namur main meeting at the beginning of November. It will then be presented to a wider audience at SPS shortly afterwards. In a live demonstration at the Aucotec stand, visitors will be able to see how quickly a device replacement can be mapped in the entire system documentation.
„EB is data-centred, not file-based and therefore updates not just any document, but the entire data model of the Digital Twin.“
Martin Imbusch, Product Manager at Aucotec
Developed in collaboration with Phoenix Contact, the digital upgrading of Brownfield plants and its documentation is a logical next step for Aucotec. At the 2018 Namur Annual General Meeting, the company, together with the ifak Institute at the University of Magdeburg and the IGR in Höchst, demonstrated for the first time ever that and how a system can communicate with its digital twin using a test system. This has now resulted in a practicable solution for Digital twins in systems in real operation.
Aucotec at the SPS 2019: Hall 6, Stand 110
[infotext icon]Aucotec: Engineering software for the entire life cycle
Aucotec AG has been developing engineering software for the entire life cycle of machines, plants and mobile systems for more than 30 years. The solutions range from flow diagrams to control and electrical engineering in large plants to modular wiring systems in the automotive industry. Aucotec software is used worldwide. Headquartered in Hanover, Aucotec has six other locations in Germany as well as subsidiaries in China, South Korea, France, Great Britain, Italy, Austria, Poland, Sweden and the USA.
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