Modern-day manufacturing requires a constant change and development in the production means. The virtual commissioning technology provides the tools to validate and verify the changes and the new designs for production plants before the real implementation. The company ÅF, wants to investigate the possible empowerments of the virtual commissioning technologies.

In this thesis, a method is proposed for reducing the time needed for generating the machine models, which are used in the virtual commissioning simulation. In addition, in this thesis, it is suggested architecture for integration of the virtual commissioning technology within the enterprise information system. The architecture allows gathering information about a planned production plant before the real implementation.