Ondřej Kanich
Computer Simulation and Optimization Engineer
Taurid Ostrava s.r.o.
For more than a decade Ondřej Kanich works in Taurid Ostrava focusing on computer simulations, optimizations and use of digital twins. At start he dealt mainly with simulations and optimizations of bath pickling lines. These lines usually transport metal coils which have to be immersed into chemicals for specific process times and in accordance to chosen recipes. These times cannot be exceeded, but the customer wants the biggest possible production output. This creates a multicriteria optimization problem that needs to be solved. These simulations were often mainly used only for confirmation whether the customer requirements could be fulfilled with the designed system.
Using this knowledge, Taurid Ostrava started to simulate and optimize various production lines (often transportation of goods). The next step was the change from 2D digital models into 3D, which are often use to visualise and verify the results. In the last 5 years Taurid Ostrava started to focus more on virtual commissioning. They use these models for verification of the PLC algorithms. The most recent topic is the hybrid simulation. Mr Kanich is currently the Head of the Computer Simulation Department. Taurid Ostrava research, develop and most importantly use state-of-the-art methods for digital models and twins.
Hybrid Digital Twins for Virtual Commissioning of Production Lines
Presentation Abstract:
At start there will be brief introduction about the company Taurid Ostrava, presenting the automation, robotization and other provided services. After that the usage of the digital models (or digital twins) in scope of our company will be shown. These are capacitive (performance), planning of production mix, virtual commissioning and miscellaneous (internal or visualization). I will show typical problems solved by capacitive simulation, on use-case scenario from praxis.
This is followed by introduction of virtual commissioning, where we are focused mainly on verification of automatic mode in PLC and/or logistical layer in MES. After that basic principles of hybrid simulation will be presented. These are models which combines internal (simulated) with external (PLC) controls used for testing and verifying technological processes. All these concepts will be shown on another practical use-case, where we can see how beneficial the virtual commissioning is for everybody, not only the end customer. Lastly there will be discussion and summary of possible outputs from these simulations.