In mechatronic machine design and development, it is no longer enough to think about machine functionality and integration as machines are increasingly digitalized. Virtual upgrades are being made to manufacturing systems to keep up with the need for faster product cycles, higher quality, and the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies. The design and development of new mechatronic discrete manufacturing machines (MDMM) should thus include these characteristics in their design. However, most machine builders do not have the capabilities and resources to do virtual engineering (VE) at the required level, which means these machines are made with limitations or sometimes without their virtual counterparts. Reusable VE MDMM modularization allows machine builders to obtain these competencies quickly and with fewer resources. This research proposes developing adaptable digital twins (DT) by modularizing all virtual and physical mechatronic machine aspects. DTs are well-explored in literature, but re-engineering them requires massive resources and is often unviable. We introduce a new DT-based approach that allows machine builders to quickly re-engineer, adapt, and test machines, given its modular confined approach. Although VE on different abstraction levels still must be developed, confined modularization allows hiding the complexity into modules rather than addressing the entire machine simultaneously. Building machines through modularization is thus an investment, as machine builders and other stakeholders will be able to use and reuse them later for other machines, reducing the overall resources that go into the development. The paper shows how to develop adaptable DT machines using Siemens tools related to virtual engineering.

在机电一体化机器设计和开发中，随着机器日益数字化，仅仅考虑机器功能和集成已经不够了。制造系统正在进行虚拟升级，以满足更快的产品周期、更高的质量和引入工业 4.0 技术的需求。因此，新型机电一体化离散制造机器（MDMM）的设计和开发应在其设计中包含这些特征。然而，大多数机器制造商不具备在所需级别进行虚拟工程 (VE) 的能力和资源，这意味着这些机器的制造存在局限性，有时甚至没有虚拟对应物。可重复使用的 VE MDMM 模块化使机器制造商能够以更少的资源快速获得这些能力。这项研究建议通过模块化所有虚拟和物理机电机器方面来开发适应性强的数字孪生（DT）。文献中对DT进行了深入探讨，但重新设计它们需要大量资源，而且往往不可行。我们引入了一种基于 DT 的新方法，鉴于其模块化受限方法，该方法允许机器制造商快速重新设计、调整和测试机器。尽管仍然必须开发不同抽象级别的 VE，但有限的模块化允许将复杂性隐藏到模块中，而不是同时寻址整个机器。因此，通过模块化构建机器是一项投资，因为机器制造商和其他利益相关者以后将能够在其他机器上使用和重用它们，从而减少用于开发的总体资源。本文展示了如何使用与虚拟工程相关的西门子工具开发适应性强的 DT 机器。