Virtual Commissioning Implementation of Industrial Painting Process

Traditional virtual commissioning solutions are characterized by their verification and validation process that tests the simulation components on their individual software platforms, implying that industrial communication protocols among the different pieces of the process do not have communication bottlenecks and data loss, which does not correspond to an accurate representation of a real scenario. To improve the previous, this paper presents an efficient virtual commissioning implementation for a novel painting process for aeronautic industry environments using a software toolchain based on OPC UA network. This toolchain consists of an OPC UA semantic layer able to map variables among simulation layer (process digital twin), execution layer (industrial controller), and supervisory layer (SCADA). Results of Software in the loop simulations of the toolchain demonstrate high design flexibility and data transfer reliability among its components.