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Digital Twin

More productivity during design

Who are they aimed at?

Developers of CNC and MC applications based on ISAC products End users who want to verify machining strategies before bringing them to the machine.

Advantages

Collaboration between mechanical and automation design. Verification of manufacturing processes, product quality, and production times.

Why choose them

Simon interprets the machining program using the same CNC engine. He also uses and interacts with the machine's automation logic to maximize simulation accuracy.

Simon It is ISAC's Digital Twin, capable of simulating the processing cycles on machine tools, robots or systems in maximum detail.

Simon allows you to simulate multi-channel concurrent machining operations and complex machining cycles consisting of interpolated movements, synchronized movements, and other automatic or pneumatic movements. To do this, it uses the same controller engine and PLC logic installed on the real machine for absolute fidelity.

During the simulation, Simon identifies mechanical collisions, syntax errors, limit switch violations, physical and kinematic constraint violations, and trajectory deviations from the programmed path. He records the state of the controller and the machine at all times. At the end of the simulation, he makes the recording available for investigation around the identified events or for later playback.

Simon collects data collected by the real controller during a real job, correlates it with the state of the simulation, and then uses very powerful data analysis tools to identify critical job issues and deviations from the ideal model.

Simon carves the raw material with realistically shaped tools and obtains an approximation of the finished part to be created, then allows the machining result to be compared with the model to be obtained, and highlights gouges and excess metal left.

Simon also interacts with the machine's control logic to stimulate it under operating conditions and cover possible use cases in the verification, or simulate the desired behavior before programming the automation components.

Agile Design

Simon allows you to apply the Agile methodology during the design of a machine or system. Thanks to accurate simulation available from the early stages of mechanical design, you can simultaneously set up the automation project and verify the feasibility of the planned processing cycles, as well as accurately estimate their timing.

Profiling of the application created

Simon allows you to identify bottlenecks and points for improvement in very complex processes involving several channels and independent movements.
Simon uses the recording of the simulation or operation to runtime of the Costantino CNC, and instantly correlates the physical state of the machine with the operations performed by the CNC and the automation logic, then uses refined analysis scripts to identify the problems or points to be analyzed in greater detail.
It therefore allows you to maximize the productivity of the machine or system being analyzed, to test variations without endangering the mechanical components and without introducing machine downtime.

Predictive maintenance

Simon uses the recording of the simulation or operation to runtime of the Costantino CNC to identify worn mechanical and electrical components, and alerts the control logic to plan maintenance interventions. 

Collision during processing

Checking the machining strategy

Simon verifies the strategy generated by the CAM before passing it to the CNC with the same operating conditions present on the real machine, then identifies mechanical interference, syntactic or logical errors in the machining sequence, and overshooting of limit switches and operating space.
It therefore helps prevent machine downtime and mechanical damage.

Simulation of material processing

Simon uses the stock, finished part, and tool models to simulate material processing, with the desired level of precision. He can simulate material addition or removal for machines with additive, subtractive, or hybrid technology.
Simon identifies any tool gouges and any excess material.

Material removal simulation.

Processing time forecast

Simon accurately estimates the machining times of the simulated part program, even in the case of machining operations with constant modulation of the machining speed. 

Simon uses the same CNC settings for the interpolation of the programmed path, and estimates the times of the accessory operations

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