Virtualization for digital twins of your drives

As a standardized FMU model, the virtual drive is compatible with many market-standard simulation programs:

• SIMIT
• Simcenter Amesim
• NX Motion
• Matlab Simulink, Ansys TwinBuilder, ISG Virtuos

And in combination with other virtual Siemens solutions (e.g. SIMATIC S7-PLCSIM Advanced or NX Mechatronics Concept Designer), it’s possible to implement an integrated, model-based development process.

The SINAMICS DriveSim Basic models incorporate practical knowledge of drives and controllers obtained from the SINAMICS device development process. They were also validated against real SINAMICS drive combinations in the Siemens test lab. The review used the same test vectors as used for the release process for the real SINAMICS devices.

When you use SINAMICS DriveSim Basic, there’s no need to go to the effort of generating your own models for your simulation tasks: SINAMICS DriveSim Basic provides closed and tested models based on existing logic diagrams. Unlike the real product, you only need to configure the part of the drive that’s actually needed for the simulation. Just how detailed your model is can be individually adjusted accordingly.

Using SINAMICS DriveSim Basic, you can save a lot of time compared to using simulation programs to simulate your own drives manually. Previously, most time was taken up by testing and validating against the real drive, but the new simulation solution now makes it possible to design the customer application quickly, without being restricted to a particular drive type.