Create accurate “digital doppelgons” for complex devices

As one of the first ten scientific and technological innovation projects of CITIC Group’s “14th Five-Year Plan”, CITIC Deca has high hopes for the research and development of this equipment, not only to speed up the research and development and manufacturing cycle of the equipment, but also to have a high process stability, simply put, “fast and good”. For such a “heavyweight” device, how to achieve the goal?

PXle-5122 Experts from Siemens Research Institute have held several “Digital Twin Co-creation workshops” with customers to study and solve problems together, introducing the concept of Siemens Digital Twin technology (DT) and Industrial Metaverse from the equipment development stage. The whole life cycle digital twin model is established for die casting machine, which runs through design, manufacture, operation and maintenance, and simulates key processes and equipment operation conditions such as injection and electromechanical hydraulic coupling.

“Citic Decca – Siemens Digital Twin Co-creation Workshop”

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In this way, before any part is put into production, the digital twin can assist customers to complete complex demonstrations at a controllable cost, and guide subsequent design optimization, saving a lot of money and time costs for experimental demonstration. According to reports, with the blessing of the digital twin, the R & D manufacturing cycle of this 7500T integrated die casting machine has been shortened by about 50%.

PXle-5122 At the same time, design engineers can also superimpose virtual equipment models and real-time data into real scenes through Augmented Reality (AR) technology, visualizing and immersively experiencing the “industrial metauniverse”, realizing detailed observation and real-time interaction of equipment structure, workflow and performance. It can help engineers better understand and optimize equipment design, reduce errors and test costs.

This also provides more convenience for cross-departmental and cross-disciplinary collaborative design. In the installation stage, due to the huge equipment, through the integration of AR and real space, it is also possible to better analyze the potential installation space dry load bearing requirements to ensure better installation effects and equipment operating quality.