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A shorter product life cycle and therefore, reduced
project duration is the major success factor for machinery and
plant engineering today. One use case for Virtual Commission-
ing (VC) is the early software test without an existing plant.
The primary effort of VC lies in the manual creation of the
plant model. There are various simulation tools with different
advantages available. Selecting one tool has consequences for
the whole engineering process. The exchange of models across
different tools is not possible or discouraged by the respective
vendors due to various reasons. This paper describes a concept to
exchange behavior models via the table-based import interfaces
for an automated model generation within common simulation
tools. The concept utilizes an approach to exchange the behavior
of components using the vendor-neutral and standardized pro-
gramming language PLCopenXML containing all IEC 61131-3
programming languages. This removes the main obstacle for a
broader industrial application of VC, as it minimizes the manual
effort for creating and exchanging behavior models through the
use of standardized library elements and existing interfaces.