Airport baggage handling systems are complex, high-throughput logistics systems where conveyors, diverters, scanners, sorters, buffers, control logic, and flight-related operating rules must work together reliably. In new terminal construction, system expansion, or existing BHS retrofit projects, design decisions made during the planning stage can directly affect system capacity, delivery reliability, commissioning time, and operational risk.

YuanHance provides BHS simulation and control testing services using industrial simulation and virtual commissioning technologies. By building a dynamic digital model of the baggage handling system, we help evaluate throughput performance, identify bottlenecks, validate routing and control logic, test abnormal scenarios, and support system design decisions before physical implementation.

Reduce BHS Delivery Risk with Simulation and Virtual Testing

Virtual commissioning allows BHS control logic to be tested before the physical system is fully installed. By connecting PLC programs and control systems to a high-fidelity 3D simulation model, engineers can verify routing logic, start-stop sequences, merge and divert behavior, scanner interaction, sensor signals, and exception handling in a repeatable digital environment.

Testing can be performed in parallel with equipment fabrication and site installation, helping reduce on-site debugging time, accelerate system start-up, and improve delivery confidence.

Move Control Testing Out of the Critical On-Site Path

The simulation model can represent common BHS equipment such as conveyors, merges, diverters, scanners, sorters, buffers, chutes, and transfer sections. The model is not only a visual representation of the physical system. It can also include operating parameters such as acceleration, deceleration, maximum speed, conveyor behavior, baggage friction, sensor positions, and equipment response logic.

This enables engineers to evaluate how the system behaves under realistic baggage flow, peak demand, routing changes, and abnormal operating conditions.

By connecting the simulation model with real control systems, engineers can verify control logic in a safe and repeatable digital environment before the physical system is completed. Virtual baggage items can carry unique identification data consistent with barcode information generated at check-in. Simulated barcode readers, photoelectric sensors, conveyors, and control signals can then interact with the external control system to support closed-loop validation. Compared with traditional manual testing, the virtual model can be reset quickly after each modification, allowing test scenarios to be repeated, traced, and compared more efficiently.

Control System Connectivity

Our BHS simulation and control testing workflow can support integration with different levels of control systems, from high-level supervisory systems to PLC-based low-level controls.

•Allen Bradley- ControlLogix, CompactLogix, MicroLogix, Ethernet/IP, CIP Class 3/1, PCCC, RSLinx, FTLinx; automatic optimization includes protocol analysis, tag database analysis and tag merging

•Siemens- S7-300, S7-400, S7-1200, S7-1500, SISIMIT, PROFINET, PROFIBUS, S7 Functions, PUT/GET

•Mitsubishi- FX, MELSEC-Q Series, SLMP, MX Component

•Beckhoff- TwinCAT 2, TwinCAT 3, ADS

and other brand control systems, including domestic automatic control PLC, as well as traditional board PLC

Model Common BHS Equipment with Operational Behavior

Connect Simulation Models with Real Control Systems