As a result of the growing demand for highly customized and individual products,\ncompanies need to enable flexible and intelligent manufacturing. Cyber-physical production systems\n(CPPS) will act autonomously in the future in an interlinked production and enable such flexibility.\nHowever, German mid-sized plant manufacturers rarely use virtual technologies for design and\nvalidation in order to design CPPS. The research project Virtual Commissioning with Smart Hybrid\nPrototyping (VIB-SHP) investigated the usage of virtual technologies for manufacturing systems\nand CPPS design. Aspects of asynchronous communicating, intelligent- and autonomous-acting\nproduction equipment in an immersive validation environment, have been investigated. To enable\nmanufacturing system designers to validate CPPS, a software framework for virtual prototyping\nhas been developed. A mechatronic construction kit for production system design integrates\ndiscipline-specific models and manages them in a product lifecycle management (PLM) solution.\nWith this construction kit manufacturing designers are able to apply virtual technologies and the\nvalidation of communication processes with the help of behavior models. The presented approach\nresolves the sequential design process for the development of mechanical, electrical, and software\nelements and ensures the consistency of these models. With the help of a bill of material (BOM)- and\nsignal-based alignment of the discipline-specific models in an integrated mechatronic product model,\nthe communication of the design status and changes are improved. The re-use of already-specified\nand -designed modules enable quick behavior modeling, code evaluation, as well as interaction with\nthe virtualized assembly system in an immersive environment.
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