Coffee, car, office, workshop, customer – until a few weeks ago, that was the daily routine of our automation engineers. Until everything changed overnight. Lockdown restrictions forced our staff to work from home, and supply shortages delayed the assembly and commissioning of our special-purpose machines.
Turning the crisis into an opportunity
Some of our control engineers and robot programmers would have been unable to work from one day to the next.
Testing and programming on the digital twin works from home, too
“Would have been” – note the conditional. We are a little proud that digital twins have long been a fixed part of our automation projects. We build digital twins, we test our control software against those digital twins, and we use digital twins of machines already in operation to further develop and maintain existing control software. In times like these, the benefit of these mysterious digital twins is perfectly clear: independence of location – yes, digital twins work from home, too.
So not all that much has changed for our control engineers. Of course, nobody used to ask “Dad, what’s the robot doing there?”, and a quick look into the workshop would be helpful now and then. But we still write control software, we still test it the way we did before, and we still deliver the same quality.
Thanks to virtual commissioning on the digital twin!
