We believe digitalization is the key to unlocking the full potential of an idea. Our digital solutions help manufacturers manage risk and protect the schedule by simulating a variety of scenarios at several points along the process of building an automated manufacturing line.
What if teams could have a virtual replica of an entire production line to visualize, simulate, and optimize operations? This would accelerate development, reduce on-site commissioning time, mitigate risks and costly delays, and enhance overall production efficiency. Leveraging digitalization, manufacturing leaders can also train and prepare teams across sites, ensuring they’re ready to meet the demands of today. ATS Industrial Automation’s know-how, combined with digital tools, can help manufacturers achieve new levels of precision and productivity.
Digitalization Helps
Accelerate line development and reduce on-site commissioning time.
Mitigate risk and demonstrate how design changes impact delivery and product performance.
Train and prepare operations employees consistently across sites
Every digitalization project is unique. Allow us to listen to your challenges and share how automation can launch your project on time.
What is a Digital Twin?
A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical machine, system, or process. It accurately reflects its real-world counterpart through real-time data and simulation. When connected with the real machine, a digital twin can continuously update with data from sensors and other sources to mirror the real machine’s characteristics and performance.
Benefits of Digitalization
Performance Prediction
Digitalization technologies provide predictive performance data so companies can virtually analyze, debug, and troubleshoot issues early on, saving time and money before project construction.
Factory Optimization
Digitalization revolutionizes problem-solving within factories—critical for resource-constrained environments with talent gaps and supply chain shortages.
Immersive Training & Simulation
Digitalization allows trainees to learn on-demand in virtual reality and beyond. Haptics let operators learn and experience tools and machinery in a realistic way.
System Integration & Optimization
Digitalization technology provides a comprehensive virtual representation of the entire system. This helps identify and address integration issues early in the process and accelerate the ramp up to production.
Leverage Virtualization with Simulations
Our digital twins offer machine performance simulations so engineers can benchmark and emulate operative components of the physical line. Testing, integration, and commissioning can be pulled ahead in time in a digital environment. Using our digital twin, leaders can run operational scenarios that provide real data to mitigate risk and reduce costly manufacturing gaps.
Reduce Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) with Virtual Commissioning
It helps identify system design and integration issues while assemblers build machinery. Virtual commissioning also allows teams to test and anticipate issues with system integration on machinery already on the shop floor. Virtual commissioning enables a concurrent schedule so manufacturers can preserve production time while undergoing line upgrades.
Optimize Lines with System Twins
System twins empower manufacturing teams to visualize, simulate, and optimize every part of operations. System twins reduce downtime and achieve unparalleled precision during production.
System twins virtualize entire manufacturing systems. A comprehensive digital model emulates the actual characteristics and behaviors of machines, robots, software, and other line components. This virtual system fosters a high-fidelity understanding of complex processes.
Enhance Training with Virtual Reality
In today’s fast-paced world, traditional training methods are rapidly becoming obsolete. UReality is a cutting-edge virtual reality (VR) training software suite that transforms how manufacturing companies train employees. Unlike traditional methods, VR training lets users engage in hands-on practice on-demand, without the risks and costs of real-world scenarios. The technology enhances retention by enabling learners to experience complex tasks and procedures in a controlled setting.
UReality makes training more effective, engaging, and cost-efficient than ever before.
Improve System Performance with Smart Maintenance
Improve maintenance operations by leveraging digital twin technology for virtual commissioning, predictive maintenance, and VR training, ultimately reducing downtime and maximizing throughput. This comprehensive approach ensures efficient spare parts management and provides a risk-free environment for training and performance testing. With the integration of PA Facts, a cloud-based IIoT solution, and Illuminate, a factory floor management platform, Smart Maintenance connects systems, contextualizes data, and simplifies data analysis to improve production efficiency and quickly address system failures.
