energy
Securing stable energy production and distribution is the basis of modern societies.
Automation systems are increasingly networked and must be designed with particular attention to
fail-safe and cyber security can be tested using robust simulation scenarios.
Due to extreme requirements for operational safety and reliability, as well as high maintenance costs, for example in the offshore sector, new methods such as automated software testing are being introduced in this area in particular.
WinMOD has established itself both for testing complex process control systems in power plants using fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) and in the field of decentralised energy supply, based on series-produced power generation units with worldwide delivery.
Due to the ever-increasing demands on automation, corresponding applications are also increasingly being used in the field of renewable energies – for example, in hydropower (pumped storage plants, weir systems) and, especially since 2015, in wind energy (wind turbines, wind farms), where highly autonomous automation technologies are used.
Market-leading companies in wind turbine construction, which have been using WinMOD for many years, are increasingly going one step further and using simulations for both individual wind turbines and entire wind farms.
