Architecture for modeling and simulation of technical systems along their lifecycle

Abstract

Modeling and simulation is an established scientific and industrial method to support engineers in their work in all lifecycle phases—from first concepts or tender to operation and service—of a technical system. Due to the fact of increasing complexity of such systems, e.g. plants, cyber-physical systems and infrastructures, system simulation is rapidly gaining impact. In this paper, a simulation architecture is presented and discussed on three different industrial applications, which offers a client–server concept to master the challenges of a lifecycle spanning simulation framework. Looking ahead, open software concepts for modeling, simulation and optimization will be required to cover new co-simulation techniques and to realize distributed, for example web-based simulation environments and tools.