Join us in the historic city of Rome for the Digital Engineering Summit 2025 on 16 – 17 June 2025, co-located with ROKLive EMEA, where industry leaders will showcase real-world applications of digital twin technology in industrial automation. This year’s event promises insightful presentations from specialists across various sectors, highlighting how digital twins are transforming operations and driving efficiency.
Key topics include:
- Virtual Commissioning: Streamlining processes to reduce costs and drive efficiency.
- Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs): Optimizing packaging lines for smarter workflows.
- Robotics: integrate and validate new technologies into the digital world.
- Complex Simulations: Enhancing quality control and throughput in automated production lines.
- Virtual Validation: Accelerating machine development with innovative testing methods.
- Broad Applicability: Exploring diverse uses from food & beverage to life sciences.

The Emulate3D team will also showcase their latest updates in robotics, material handling, and mechatronics. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with industry leaders and explore the future of industrial automation.
AGENDA
Monday, 16 June 2025 | Session title |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 13:45 | Welcome and Introduction Welcome to the Digital Engineering Summit 2025 in Rome! |
13:45 - 14:30 | Rockwell Automation: What's new in Emulate3D 2025? Learn what is new in our latest release of Emulate3D software. |
14:30 - 15:00 | Customer Success Story: DGAC and Hub Performance - Unlocking Efficiency in Security Screening: A Parametric Digital Model for Optimized Checkpoints Introducing a cutting-edge parametric digital model of a Security Screening Checkpoint (SSCP) developed with Emulate3D. This tool simulates and optimizes cabin baggage and passenger screening by adjusting key parameters like processing times and security officer deployment. Discover how it enhances efficiency, reduces wait times, and strengthens security protocols. |
15:00 - 15:30 | Customer Success Story: CLS iMation - Digital Twins in Practice: Challenges, Truths, and Progress As industries adopt smarter automation, digital twins are transforming innovation. But what truly defines a digital twin, and how close are we to achieving it? At the Digital Engineering Summit, we'll explore the challenges of creating accurate digital twins, highlighting the difference between simulation and emulation. Using Emulate3D, we'll showcase successes and untapped potential. |
15:30 - 16:00 | Networking Break |
16:00 - 16:30 | Rockwell Automation: Device emulation and catalog updates We're increasing the number of types of devices we're able to emulate and keep extending our Emulate3D library with simulation and emulation objects. |
16:00 - 16:30 | Customer Success Story: Invesyde - Maximize Efficiency: Leveraging Emulate3D for Automated PLC Code Creation Streamline your automation design, development, and testing workflow by deploying your PLC code from an Emulate3D digital model. This process ensures seamless updates and version control across projects, achieving high accuracy in code generation. It also automates the creation of IO lists, test parameters, and SCADA interface specifications, providing comprehensive project reports. Boost productivity and reduce errors with this digital engineering approach. |
16:00 - 16:30 | Rockwell Automation: Automated Testing with Test Runner Are you looking to be more efficient in the testing? Learn the new Emulate3D functionality that will help in running automated testing on your digital application. |
16:00 - 16:30 | Customer Success Story: CHG - Flood Prevention and Disaster Planning Digitised The use of data analytics and online information embedded within Emulate3D for the simulation and emulation of water treatment plant operation during adverse weather condition diurnal flows for advance planning, flood prevention and DSEAR classification using locational data. |
From 18:00 | Welcome Reception in Connection Zone |
Tuesday, 17 June 2025 | Session title |
8:30 - 9:00 | Customer Success Story: ProjectBinder - Synthetic training of vision models in Digital Twin ProjectBinder will demonstrate how to integrate computer vision into a digital twin, enabling the early deployment of vision models. |
9:00 - 9:30 | Customer Success Story: Automate - Airport Capacity Runway Management with Digital Twin Technology Automate highlights how Emulate3D’s digital twin technology transforms airport runway capacity management. By simulating real-time operations, it enables predictive decision-making, optimizes resource allocation, and reduces bottlenecks. Discover how integrating digital twins enhances planning accuracy, operational responsiveness, and supports sustainable airport growth. |
9:30 - 10:00 | Rockwell Automation: Version Control with GIT Learn how you can use native version control into Emulate3D to backup your project, for audit trail and improved project collaboration. |
10:00 - 10:30 | Networking Break |
10:30 - 11:00 | Customer Success Story: Ronchi Packaging - From Concept to Code: Unlocking engineering efficiency with Digital Twin Technology in Machine Building Ronchi packaging will showcase how Emulate3D has been adopted to accelerate engineering time by automatically generating the PLC code while optimizing machine design. Discover the challenges, solutions, and benefits achieved through this innovative approach. |
11:00 - 11:30 | Rockwell Automation: Augment your digital model with cosimulation This is a great example of Digital Engineering and how you can leverage the best of different tools to create a full digital environment. |
11:30 - 12:00 | Customer Success Story: Simplan - Optimizing Bakery Automation: Emulate3D's Impact on Efficiency and Innovation Discover how Emulate3D can be used for running virtual commissioning for large industrial bakery lines, enhancing efficiency across engineering and sales. |
12:00 - 12:30 | Rockwell Automation: Tips and tricks Emulate3D is a great software platform. But what about get to know from our experts some tips and tricks that can help you being more efficient? |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch |
13:30 - 14:00 | Rockwell Automation: Rendering and Quality of Life Updates Learn how you can get a photorealistic digital twin model and how we improved software usability and performances. |
14:00 - 14:30 | Customer Success Story: Fives Group - Revolutionizing Sterilization with Virtual Commissioning and Digital Twin Technology: A Dual Conveying System for Diverse Industries Revolutionizing Sterilization Across Industries: This innovative Fives project aims to create a versatile system for efficient sterilization in diverse sectors, including medical, pharmaceutical, food, automotive, and industrial environments. At its core, the system leverages a dual conveying approach, combining the strengths of Overhead and ground roller conveyor technologies to enhance effectiveness and flexibility. |
14:30 - 15:00 | Rockwell Automation: What's next and... Lottery We released 2025, but what you can expect on the horizon? What are the next investment focus area?...then let's have fun! |
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You will find the summit in the session catalog for ROKLive EMEA.
