Available from adept scientific (Letchworth, Herts), the MapleSim connector for B & Automation Studio is the result of a partnership between the Maplesoft and B & R, a world leader in industrial automation, is formed to bring together products from both companies save engineers time and effort for hardware-in-the-loop simulation and controller development.
MapleSim is an advanced physical modeling and simulation tool that applies modern technology to model development and analysis dramatically reduce the time while producing fast, high-fidelity simulations.
(B) & Automation Studio is an integrated development environment for technology that enables the controller, drive, communication and visualization phases of a development project for all configured in a single environment.
With this new connection between products, complex technical systems models quickly developed and optimised in intuitive visual modeling environment of MapleSim. High-performance, high-fidelity MapleSim models are automatically converted to code for simple integration into Automation Studio B &. The model code is fully optimized for high speed, real-time simulation that allows engineers to achieve the required performance for hardware, software, and operator-in-the-loop testing without sacrificing fidelity.
"Engineers can save much time by determining the characteristics of their systems before building a physical prototype through system-level modeling," said Dr. Laurent Bernardin, Executive Vice President, R&D, Maplesoft. "With drag-and-drop physical modeling environment in MapleSim Automation Studio users can easily add a system level modeling phase their workflow without difficult, time consuming and error-prone mathematical derivations. With a system-level model engineers can optimize for individual elements without the risk of unexpected side effects desired behavior in other parts of the system. "
"This partnership offers our customers many tangible benefits," says Kurt Zehetleitner, technical manager Automation software, (B) & r. "using MapleSim MapleSim and connection B & Automation Studio, Automation Engineers can dramatically reduce the amount of time they spend developing and analyzing their models with the potential to save literally months of work in some cases. The resulting high-fidelity models are so fast that they can be used directly in hardware-in-the-loop simulations.
"With more precise models in testing phase fewer expensive physical prototypes needed. Additionally, the controller design and optimization started in MapleSim then continue in hardware-in-the-loop tests with B-level Automation Studio & Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). "
Maplesoft products are delivered and supported by adept scientific in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Scandinavia and the Nordic countries.
If B & R
(B) & R is a privately held company with headquarters in Austria and offices around the world.
As a global leader in industrial automation combines B & R state-of-the-art technology with advanced technologies to offer customers in virtually every industry with complete solutions for machine and process automation, motion control, HMI and integrated security technology.
With industrial fieldbus communication standards such as POWERLINK, and openSAFETY as well as powerful automation Studio software development environment, (B) constantly redefine the future of & R automation technology.
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft has over 20 years of experience developing products for engineering education and research, offers a solution for every aspect of academic life. Product suite reflects the philosophy that people can do great things considering the great tool.
Maplesoft's core technology is the world's most advanced symbolic computation engine which is the basis for all products, including maple ™, technical calculations and documentation. MapleSim ™, high-performance multi-domain modeling and simulation tool for physical systems. and Maple T.A., a Web-based system for creating and evaluating online tests and assignments.
About adept scientific plc
Adept Scientific is one of the world's leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, technical, scientific and technological applications on desktop computers and has offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and throughout the North. Full details and contact information for all the skilled scientific international offices is available at http://www.adeptscience.co.uk; or telephone + 44 (0) 1462 480055.