Engineering Design Tool Standards and Interfacing Possibilities to Modelica Simulation Tools

This paper briefly describes some international standards used for engineering design tools that precede simulation in the product development process. Very much information in such design tools can be reused when developing Modelica simulation models. Examples are product structures, component parameters, and component connection information. The Modelica Standard Library (MSL) with the latest version 2.2.1 has grown significantly the last years. An analysis of the contents of MSL is provided, and a classification method described to ease the work of mapping structures, component parameters and connections in engineering design tools such that their information content can be reused for development of Modelica simulation models. ModelicaXML has been upgraded to support Modelica 2.2, and is briefly described as one of the most promising intermediate formats for exchange of models between engineering design tools and Modelica simulation tools.