Simulate your drive or power converter environment

Start your simulation journey with Danfoss Drives

Simulate your drive or power converter environment to benefit from fast response time and flexibility in product development. This approach helps you go to market faster and gain competitive advantage. MyDrive® simulation tools from Danfoss Drives put the best predictive simulation software and hardware tools in your hands, equipping you with the tools and expertise necessary to achieve your design goals.

Comprehensive range for HIL, SIL, and cloud-based simulation

Discover the transformative power of simulation and how it can elevate your business operations, in our latest video. Join us as we explore the world of simulation, its numerous advantages, and the innovative tools offered by Danfoss Drives. Whether you're new to simulation or looking to optimize your current processes, this video is packed with insights and practical solutions.

In this video, Norbert Hanigovszki, Head of Drives Intelligence at Danfoss Drives, explains how the use of simulation can give you peace of mind, reduce your risks, and give you an optimized and efficient design.

Gain more insight into these tools from Danfoss Drives:

  • MyDrive® Virtual, which offers you high-fidelity drive models that are compatible with over 150 simulation tools worldwide

  • MyDrive® Simulation, which is a cloud-based platform for enhanced collaboration between colleagues, for high efficiency

  • MyDrive® HIL, which lets you experience real-time hardware in the loop simulation. This tool combines actual Danfoss control components with virtual applications, offering unmatched fidelity and cost savings

Go to market faster

With stringent quality demands and complex challenges in design, test and commissioning of new machines and product lines, digital tools facilitating SIL or HIL testing enable you to achieve the best results faster. Which means you can go to market ahead of your competitors.

Win competitive advantage with MyDrive® simulation software

Enable a more sustainable approach using system simulations

Physical prototypes are expensive. To optimize design and gain a more sustainable approach to test systems, MyDrive® digital tools enable you to simulate testing and commissioning, before entering the workshop or lab in practice.

Simulate real hardware to optimize cost and efficiency

Digital tools such as HIL or SIL simulators offer a range of cost benefits. These empower designers to predict the performance and lifecycle of power converters with minimal capital investment (CAPEX). With these tools, designers can thoroughly test every aspect of an idea with no need for physical prototypes, test benches, or travel expenses.

Collaborative simulation - a new culture in hardware and software development

Simulation facilitates collaboration in an open environment, enabling experts to discuss freely and develop ideas together. Simulation comprises both solution and context in a dynamic and interactive way. The multidisciplinary synergies fostered by simulator tools help you to explore possibilities (“what-if" scenarios) and find innovative solutions, in a manner that uses engineering hours highly efficiently.

Cloud-based solutions make simulating easily accessible, since no IT infrastructure is required.

Future-proof your solutions with digital twins, HIL, and SIL tests

Future-proof your systems using our unique simulation offering. Product development using our tools equips your products with new functions and features reliably and quickly, since the simulator tools mirror our physical products exactly. Software updates of installed drives are also reflected in these Danfoss digital tools.

HIL (hardware in the loop) simulation: Here you get real-time behavior using the same controller electronics as those integrated in the physical drive. Expand the system with your own electronic and software parts as desired. This is the most advanced simulation tool, typically providing the best most accurate performance.

SIL (software in the loop) simulation: Here you get maximum flexibility. Put the system together freely on a desktop computer or get started fast with a cloud-based solution.

Build a digital twin of your own system, using our simulation products. Use the digital twin for monitoring, optimization and more, to revolutionize your systems.

Verification and validation with simulation

Simulation has a positive impact on the quality of the final product delivered. Verification testing during development will boost your test system for several reasons:

  • Since application knowledge is integrated into the simulation models, context is always present and design issues become quicker to resolve
  • More testing, such as hardware in the loop or software in the loop testing (HIL simulation or SIL simulation), can improve the quality and reliability of your products. This means you can reduce call-rates
  • If problems arise, simulation tools enable you to trace exactly which test scenario was problematic, faster
  • Simulation tools can be integrated with your own test systems. You can choose manual or automatic testing as used in continuous integration pipelines. Test automation helps you scale up.

Even when it comes to validation testing of your products and services, simulation can play a role. By using the highest fidelity tools, such as HIL simulation, you can reduce or completely eliminate manual validation work.

Future-proof: Prepare for tomorrow's compliance needs, today

In the future, simulation models will be required for compliance purposes. For example, the transmission system operator (TSO) may require a multi-MW electrolysis plant to demonstrate compliance in the form of simulation models, before permitting connection to mains. Such requirements could apply to testing battery management systems with electronic control units, or other complex controllers in conjunction with power electronics.

Take your simulation compliance to the next level, using MyDrive® simulation tools from Danfoss Drives. These tools empower you to meet the demands and requirements of future legislation.