TwinCAT Simulation Manager

The TwinCAT Simulation Manager is a tool for the configuration of a simulation environment, which integrates itself perfectly into the TwinCAT system environment.

Machine hardware and software are often developed in parallel by different persons or become available at different times. Testing of individual machine components requires a simulation environment. The TwinCAT Simulation Manager supports creation of a “virtual machine” the temporal behaviour of which corresponds to the real machine.

 

In the past the TwinCAT Simulation Manager ran the actual PLC/NC in a run-time system on the controller and the simulated process in another run-time system. Remote capability has now been integrated in order to ensure separation of the actual PLC/NC and the simulation process. The actual control system can thus run on the control computer and the simulation process on another PC. The link between control system and simulation process is realised via real-time Ethernet and the TwinCAT network variables.

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TwinCAT Simulation Manager	licence for using the TwinCAT Simulation Manager