Virtual machine building refers to the complete, digital development and validation of machines—long before any physical components are built. By linking CAD, CAE and PLC data with simulation and behaviour models, it creates a digital workspace in which planning, programming, testing and optimisation run in parallel and can be reused. Every workflow draws on a comprehensive IMT library of reusable models—from sensor functions to robotics.
This cuts development times, reduces sources of error and enables a far more efficient commissioning process—both virtual and real.
Virtual engineering doesn’t just transform individual projects – it transforms the entire system:
Short term: It accelerates your processes. Errors are identified early, and commissioning becomes faster and more reliable.
Mid term: It ensures your machines become productive sooner, reduces development costs, and enables scalable global rollouts.
Long term: It establishes a digital standard you can build on – with reusable models, new business models, and measurable contributions to sustainability.
Result:
Virtual machine building not only gets your machine ready faster—it also future-proofs your entire business.
At IMT, we use artificial intelligence to make virtual mechanical engineering smarter, more efficient, and more adaptable.
Our goal: data-based decisions, automated model adjustment, and predictive optimization – directly integrated into your engineering processes.
This is how we make AI usable for real projects – not as a concept, but as a tool. Data-driven. Reusable. Project-ready.
The IMTwin® is far more than a conventional digital twin.
It is a quality-assured, ready-to-use digital machine, engineered to meet the highest technical demands of virtual machine engineering.
The IMTwin® is built on reusable templates derived from a modular construction kit and organized within a central library. This library is continuously expanded, maintained, and technically validated. The result is not an isolated project model, but a robust system designed for industrial-scale deployment.
With the IMTwin®, a level becomes attainable that can rightly be described as the Champions League of virtual commissioning. Not as a marketing claim, but because the underlying technical foundation finally makes it possible. Standardized structures, validated modules, reproducible quality, and a clear separation between the core foundation and project-specific adaptations.
The IMTwin® makes it technically feasible to treat virtual commissioning not as an exception or pilot, but as a controlled industrial process. Complex machines, diverse technology stacks, and changing project requirements can all be implemented on a stable, reusable foundation.
This positions the IMTwin® as competence instead of improvisation. Know-how is not reinvented, but systematically built, secured, and continuously evolved. From project to project, from generation to generation.
In short:
The IMTwin® elevates virtual commissioning to a level that was previously only theoretical —
and makes it practically achievable.
As a technology service provider, we see it as our responsibility to actively contribute to decarbonization in mechanical engineering. By building an open ecosystem around digital twins, we enable, together with partners, more efficient processes, reduced resource use, and measurable CO₂ savings.
Our contribution:
Our goal:
An ecosystem that makes a difference not only technologically but also ecologically.
Green by Design – together with customers, partners, and the next generation of developers.
At the heart of our partner network is the joint advancement of mechanical and special-purpose machine engineering through consistent digitalization. Diverse competencies, perspectives, and technologies come together to make engineering, implementation, and operational processes more efficient, transparent, and future-proof.
Our contribution:
A key element of this collaboration is the IMTable. Aa recurring networking and working format where all partners come together to exchange experience, develop best practices, and jointly shape the future of digital machine engineering.
Our goal is to build an open, high-performance ecosystem in which validated IMTwin’s®, know-how, and processes are systematically shared and continuously evolved. Trough close collaboration within the partner network and based on clearly defined quality and process standards.
You are in the right place if you want to become part of a future-oriented partner network in virtual machine engineering and actively contribute to driving the digital transformation of the industry.
In virtual machinery engineering, success isn’t about finding a single “right” tool—it’s about the friction-free interplay of many tools across the entire engineering workflow. That’s why we develop our IMTwins® and services to be “tool-agnostic” by default—from CAD/CAE design and PLC or robot programming all the way to virtual commissioning (vIBN).
A snapshot of our tool ecosystem:
Our goal is an open, high-performance tool ecosystem where validated IMTwins®, process know-how and software work together efficiently—without lock-ins. Already using proven tools? Perfect. Looking to integrate new technologies? Likewise. We build the bridges so your digital machine is ready for operation quickly, safely and with future resilience.
Your toolbox, our openness—together we create the best possible solution.
Are you planning a new project in mechanical engineering?
We support you with digital services, virtual commissioning, and ready-to-use IMTwin’s® – efficient, scalable, and future-proof. Let’s get your machine up and running digitally first – together.
Contact us – we look forward to your inquiry!
Inquiries to the following email address:
kontakt@imt-services.de
Phone:
+49 7151 70715-60
