Particularly in technical education and training, it is necessary to learn skills in a safe environment. Simulations can be used to communicate complex processes and relationships in a safe and accessible way. For more than 25 years, FluidSIM has been the world's leading simulation software for creating and simulating circuit diagrams in pneumatics, hydraulics, and electrical engineering. With FluidSIM, valuable technical skills are acquired that prevent errors from occuring and ensure an increase in efficiency and quality.
For more than 25 years, FluidSIM has been the world's leading simulation software for creating and simulating circuit diagrams in pneumatics, hydraulics, and electrical engineering. FluidSIM enables the acquisition of valuable technical skills by designing circuits, bringing them to life through simulation and optimizing them through interaction. The simulation of control systems and processes has long been an industrial standard that ensures errors are prevented, and efficiency and quality are increased.
FluidSIM has already received several awards, including the Expert System Innovation Award, the Worlddidac Award and the German Education Software Award. With more than 300,000 installations worldwide, FluidSIM is one of the most successful software packages in mechatronics training.
FluidSIM enables learners to develop their skills in automation technology in a practical way and to master complex tasks. The learning objectives of FluidSIM include:
FluidSIM can be accessed in different ways. Depending on the licence, users can choose between the Windows version, the web version or they can opt to integrate FluidSIM into our digital learning portal Festo LX.
The web version of FluidSIM is a device-independent user version. This means that it can be used anywhere, at any time and from any device (e.g. iPad). There currently is a limit to the number of important functions that are accessible with the web version. However, updates will be integrated regularly so that the functionalities of the web version and the Windows version will be almost identical in future.
The Windows version includes all the functionalities and content of FluidSIM. Please note that this version can only be run on devices with a Windows operating system. Offline use is also possible with this version.
By integrating FluidSIM in Festo LX, simulation tasks can be created directly in Festo LX by the tutors and then processed and simulated by the students. Users no longer have to switch between the two programs.
Various licensing models are available for the use of FluidSIM. Depending on which technology is to be trained in FluidSIM, a distinction is made between FluidSIM Pneumatics, FluidSIM Hydraulics and FluidSIM Electrical Engineering. There is also the option of using all three technologies in combination.
With FluidSIM 365 you receive time-limited access (1, 3 or 5 years) to the technology you have selected and can use it in the web and Windows version as well as within our Festo LX digital learning portal.
FluidSIM offers teachers and students numerous functionalities and contents that make working and learning with FluidSIM easier and more targeted.
FluidSIM also has component libraries for pneumatics, hydraulics and electrical engineering that can be used either separately or in combination. The component libraries include hundreds of pneumatic, hydraulic, electrotechnical, electric and digital components, and are constantly expanded and revised.
FluidSIM offers both real and virtual measuring devices for integration into circuits. Real measuring devices are inserted before the simulation, and virtual measuring devices are inserted either before or during the simulation in order to display all state variables. In contrast to real measuring devices, virtual measuring devices do not influence the circuits. They therefore show the pure values of the circuit simulated by FluidSIM. Virtual measuring devices can be used in electrical as well as fluid power circuits.
FluidSIM has an innovative diagnostic concept, Which enables the readily available fault models for various components to be compiled. Before a simulation, a specific error configuration can be selected; this then has an impact on the subsequent simulation. During this process, defective components can be identified with the help of virtual measuring devices and then virtually repaired.
FluidSIM facilitates the organization of lessons with its expert mode, which can be used to create profiles and assign them to learners. Profiles make it possible to narrow down functions, components and error models, for example, so that learners only deal with the functions and tasks that are relevant to them. In addition, FluidSIM provides multimedia learning content to make lessons interesting and varied.
With FluidSIM, students put the knowledge they have learned into practice straight away. Signals are transmitted either via the connected hardware or via interfaces from other programs. All parameters are identical to those of the training packages from Festo Didactic and additionally, they can be fully adapted to the characteristics of other components. The EasyPort hardware enables FluidSIM to be used both as a controller for real systems and as a replacement for them. The OPC-UA industry standard is also supported, bringing FluidSIM even closer to the industry.