The Template Model Approach For PLC Simulation In An Automotive Industry

Product systems are quickly and frequently changed because product life cycle is continuously reduced and adopting new product is steadily fast. Thus, various studies are progressed using PLC simulation which is one of control level simulation. The research that is concerning simulation of control verification for shortening the commissioning which has a lot of trial and error is in progress. Also, simulation of control verification has strength that it can catch the errors in advance. However, a virtual device in simulation needs both physical and logical model for representation of control information. For this reason, excessive time and energy is put into constructing virtual models. So, in this paper, we proposed the template model approach for the PLC simulation to cope with this problem. The proposed template model approach provides an efficient construction method for a virtual model based on control information, extracted from the test run procedure of the PLC program. We can minimize the set up time of the PLC simulation environment, as well as cut process time down using our suggestion.