Digitalisation & Networking in Production
Digital twin for virtual commissioning of parcel centres
Digitalisation & Networking in Production
Digital twin for virtual commissioning of parcel centres
Customer requirements
- Validated commissioning of the parcel centres
- Verification of control changes during the operation of the parcel centre
Solution
- Design and implementation of a flexible emulation environment (FEE)
- Emulation and virtual commissioning of a parcel centre
- Development of protocol adapters for the control system, material flow computer and the emulation model
- Agile software development (scrum)
How the customer benefits
- Validation of the commissioning of parcel centres (sorting 50,000 parcels an hour)
- Increase in performance by testing different material flow strategies
Further project key data
- Client: DHL Sorting GmbH
- Product: Parcel service
- Location: Germany


Customer requirements
- Validated commissioning of the parcel centres
- Verification of control changes during the operation of the parcel centre
Solution
- Design and implementation of a flexible emulation environment (FEE)
- Emulation and virtual commissioning of a parcel centre
- Development of protocol adapters for the control system, material flow computer and the emulation model
- Agile software development (scrum)
How the customer benefits
- Validation of the commissioning of parcel centres (sorting 50,000 parcels an hour)
- Increase in performance by testing different material flow strategies
Further project key data
- Client: DHL Sorting GmbH
- Product: Parcel service
- Location: Germany