Simulation komplexer Kommunikationssysteme in der Fertigungsautomatisierung

Description

The increasing networking of machines and plants, the growing heterogeneity of communication participants, and the convergence of IT and OT applications in the course of Industry 4.0 pose major challenges for planners of industrial communication networks. Up to now, industrial communication networks can only be sufficiently validated after completion of the engineering phase. This leads to high costs due to undetected errors in the early phase of the life cycle of an automated production plant. The aim of this work is to enable validation of the planned communication network in the early planning and design phase of an automated production plant. For this purpose, the co-simulation framework PLANET is introduced, which validates the industrial communication network based on application related communication requirements and a combination of material flow and communication simulation. For this purpose, industrial applications are structured with respect to communication requirements based on a communication technology portfolio. By modelling application-related communication requirements, a description language is defined in the asset administration shell for use in simulations. Furthermore, the overall architecture of the co-simulation is also presented, which uses this information and validates the results using a prototypical implementation.