Commissioning

How it is used

Used by integrators, site engineers and project managers. You commission a line, go to site for commissioning and finish it before the site acceptance test (SAT). Virtual commissioning means testing the PLC program against a simulation before the real machine exists.

Example sentences

1. Commissioning on site took three weeks, one more than planned, because the conveyors arrived late.

2. I'm flying to Izmir on Monday for the commissioning of the palletizing cell.

Common collocations

• on-site commissioning
• virtual commissioning
• commissioning engineer
• commission a machine
• site acceptance test

Related terms

• robot cellA closed working area with one or more robots and the equipment around them, such as fixtures, conveyors and safety guarding, that performs a task as one unit.
• tuneTo adjust the parameters of a controller, such as PID gains or servo settings, so that the system responds quickly and smoothly without oscillating.
• I/OShort for inputs and outputs: the signals a controller receives from sensors and buttons, and the signals it sends to valves, motors, lamps and other devices.
• offline programmingWriting and testing robot programs on a computer using a 3D simulation of the robot and its cell, instead of teaching points on the real robot with the pendant.
• production lineA series of machines, stations and workers arranged in order, where a product moves from one step to the next until it is finished.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• commissioning · Chemical Engineering
• commissioning · Energy & Renewables

More terms: Industrial Automation and Production

• automation
• cycle time
• conveyor
• fixture
• SCADA
• fieldbus
• throughput
• Industry 4.0