Behavior validation of production systems within different phases of the engineering process

Due to increasing complexity of production systems as well as necessary reduction of time-to-market engineers are faced with new challenges within the engineering process today. To make this process more efficient and to improve the quality of engineering results the use of a previous simulative validation of these results is increasing. But within each engineering phase different simulation tools and models are used which are usually not consistent to each other respectively not reusable in other tools. In this paper a modular, adaptable, and extensible simulation framework will be presented. It is applicable in multiple engineering phases by using libraries of engineering artifacts depending on the process.