Model-Based Design and digital twin

Interview with Sébastien Saliou, head of control activities and co-founder of Acsystem, on the optimization of process performance thanks to the digital twin.

At a time of performance research, it is becoming essential for manufacturers to find methods to design new optimal processes or to improve existing processes. The adjustment and test phases on the systems are time-consuming, very costly, and require regular plant downtime. The model-oriented design approach (model-based design or MBD) has been used for more than 20 years in the aeronautics and automotive sectors, with success. It is now accessible to all sectors: finance, industry, agri-food, energy...

Through this approach, the process is modeled to simulate life scenarios on a computer and to develop the optimum settings without shutting down the plant. This is particularly the case mentioned here by Sébastien with the management of a risky process in a fertilizer manufacturing plant. This approach provides obvious time and performance savings, a new decision support tool, and makes it possible to use all the data from the process, and thus to move towards a digital twin to carry out predictive maintenance.

Link to the article: http://www.acsysteme.com/fr/interview-sebastien-saliou