EcoStruxure™ Machine Expert Twin | Schneider Electric UK

Why EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin

EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin reduces your time to market, increases quality and saves cost.

50% faster time to market

Cut development cycles by up to 50% with virtual prototyping and simulation. Identify design flaws early and reduce reliance on physical prototypes to launch faster and smarter.
20% saved quality costs

Lower quality-related costs by up to 20% with a unified platform that enables real-time collaboration across disciplines, ensuring alignment from design to deployment.
60% reduced commissioning time

Shrink commissioning time by up to 60% using real-time physics simulation and business logic testing. Reuse the same software across the entire lifecycle-from design to training, to minimise toolchain complexity and reduce costs.
Enhance your after-sales business

Create your virtual reality using a simulation setup with tailored plugins and custom toolchain integration. Avail fulfilling opportunities for remote maintenance and customer support during troubleshooting, increase uptime and new service revenue streams.

Create a digital twin of your machine design
Load mechanical CAD files with a complete GUI-based import function.
Preserve the original file structure or create a grouped assembly.
Establish parent-child relationships between individual assemblies.
Assign movement axes with translation, rotation, or any combination of both.
New joint editor for maximum kinematic flexibility
Easily build and simulate your serial and parallel kinematics in minutes.
Define Physics Joints between assemblies to build custom kinematics.
Ensure accurate movement with physics simulation.
Handle serial and parallel kinematics in a single editor.

SmartVisu with Lexium MC12 multi-carrier support
With SmartVisu, you can:
Determine the ideal number of robots and achievable throughput.
Utilise predefined catalogues and ready-to-use mechatronic components.
Configure Pick-and-applications without extensive programming.
Automatically generate 3D visualisations.
Have complete control of load creation and manipulation.
Have support for conveyors, P- and T-series Delta robots, and the MC12 multi-carrier.
Seamless integration of robots from other vendors
Integrated robots allow you to:
Import complete kinematics, graphics, kinematic models, and collision detection using the Unified Robotics Description Format (URDF).
Utilise URDF to create a comprehensive robot description, including the mechanical structure, joints, 3D modelling graphics, motors, and colliders.
Take advantage of the free URDF model downloads provided by numerous robotic manufacturers for their devices.

Automate virtual testing with your PLC code
Leverage predefined catalogues and off-the-shelf mechatronic components to automatically create a 3D digital twin of your entire machine using your PLC code.
Have complete control over load creation and manipulation within the scene through PLC programming.
Validate your PLC code in an ideal virtual environment without physical interference.
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Virtual commissioning of agile machine design
Generate digital 3D models of your machines and lines to design and engineer in a risk-free environment, then perform the virtual commissioning right with the same tool.
Import machine designs from CAD files and third-party mechatronic components from URDF files to create your digital twin.
Emulate the entire machine with multiple Schneider and third-party PLCs in the loop.
Enable parallel engineering of mechanical and electrical controls, fostering agile development processes.
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With full access to our .Net-based architecture, you can tailor the software to your exact needs, from integrating it into your toolchain to adding custom protocols and interfaces. Whether you build it yourself in C#, or let our engineering team craft it for you, the result is a solution that works the way you do.

A one-stop 3D modelling platform
EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin Logistics and Warehouse is a versatile software that supports multiple applications such as:
Physics simulation.
Discrete event simulation.
Industrial communication, PLC control and WCS/WMS.
Integration of company workflow and project data.
You have a use case specific to your company? Easily implement your own software code as a C# plug-in.
Fast, complex and automatic model building
As a versatile software, EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin Logistics and Warehouse offers solutions to get started quickly or to dive deep into the complexities.
Use standard catalogues to start testing your setup with a proxy model.
Create custom components to better resemble your real-life setup.
With custom catalogues and naming in place, use Excel sheet for automatic building.

Optimise your production line layout
Less production downtime or efficiency losses due test new line logic. Setting up your production line in EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin Logistics and Warehouse allows you to:
Track the product path through your site to identify potential problems early.
Perform capacity tests to avoid expensive bottlenecks.
Test different solutions in the software before implementing it in real life.
Create massive models
No need to worry that your model is too large to run in EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin Logistics and Warehouse. The lightweight discrete event engine allows you to emulate every step from manufacturing to packaging to warehousing. Giving you the opportunity to:
Follow your products through massive production halls.
Divide your site into smaller segments to view separately, or combine them all and view them together.
Perform capacity and flow tests in up to 10x real time.

Built to fit. Powered by you.

With full access to our .Net based architecture, you can tailor the software to your exact needs, from integrating it into your toolchain to adding custom protocols and interfaces. Whether you build it yourself in C#, or let our engineering team craft it for you, the result is a solution that works the way you do.

One solution for complete machine lifecycle

EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin covers all machine life cycle stages, from design to commissioning to after-sales. It offers benefits such as increased modularity and flexibility, reduced footprint, ensured production performance, and accelerated time-to-market.

ACMA
Maximise performance with optimised designs

Discover how EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin facilitates agile and full virtual machine engineering. Explore how this virtual environment enhances flexibility, accelerates engineering processes, and elevates machine performance.

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Unlock operational and design flexibility

Watch how the combination of Lexium MC12 and EcoStruxure Machine Expert Twin empowers modularity and flexibility, revolutionising machine designs and delivering a competitive edge in performance, energy efficiency, and quality.

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