Manufacturing Process Simulation – Simulating Reality, Delivering Certainty

The Summer 2021 edition of Engineering Reality Magazine is here

Roger Assaker — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:31:53 +0000

Smarter manufacturing by design Welcome to this our Summer 2021 edition of Engineering Reality magazine where we are addressing everything associated with ‘smart manufacturing’. This is a sweet-spot area for Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division with our unique portfolio of metrology hardware, production software and computer aided engineering (CAE) simulation. The concept of smart manufacturing encompasses ...

Fast and stable process simulation at highest accuracy within Simufact Forming 2021

Michael Tran — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:44:17 +0000

Simufact Forming is an established software solution for the simulation of forming manufacturing processes. The software covers all essential areas of forming technology: forging, cold forming, sheet metal forming, all rolling processes, open die forging and mechanical joining. Simufact Forming provides support in microstructure simulation, calculation of die load, material flow and prediction of material ...

Simufact Welding 2021 enables complete automation from model creation to evaluation

Michael Tran — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 17:51:00 +0000

Simufact Welding is used to model and optimize a wide range of thermal joining processes by means of the welding structure simulation under consideration of weld sequences and clamping. Processes such as arc welding, laser beam welding, electron beam welding, brazing, resistance spot welding as well as the generative manufacturing process ‘Direct Energy Deposition’ (DED ...

You can save the planet with design & engineering simulation

Keith Hanna — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 22:48:23 +0000

Manufacturing processes today span everything from aerospace to automotive, energy generation to oil & gas, and electronics to shipbuilding. Yet, all these contribute to emissions and environmental pollution as well as intensive use of our world’s precious energy and water resources. With a burgeoning human population on planet Earth, limited natural resources, and endangered species ...

Hexagon Smart Factory Update: “Make It Smarter”

Product Marketing — Tue, 25 Jun 2019 21:54:05 +0000

By Brian Shepherd, Senior Vice President Software Solutions, Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division For the first time in history it’s now possible for factories to harness the full potential of their manufacturing and simulation data. If we look backwards to what was called ‘Industry 3.0’, factories in the 20th century were focused on simple automation of ...

Manufacturing Simulation Reduces Development Costs and Time in Cold Forming Tool Design

Product Marketing — Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:38:40 +0000

Omni-Lite Industries is an advanced material company. They recently designed a new part that was exhibiting a unique material flow. The part was cold formed out of 1100 aluminum material.

The initial tool design was completed and reviewed using the Simufact.forming simulation. Upon initial review, everything seemed to be acceptable, with the exception of the volume of material in the flange of the part. The second station trap extrusion die radius was then reduced in order to accommodate the material volume requirements.

Optimum Design of a Steel Connection of a Glass Façade for a High Rise Building

José Miguel Moreno — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 17:00:57 +0000

The use of glass in the exterior facades provides more light and good ambience to the inhabitants of a building. In our case, this leads to a high increase of the use of glass in the facades. The curtain wall is formed by an aluminum framework with steel connections. These steel connections are welded to the building while steel beams and bolted to the aluminum frame.

Force Response of a Sun Roof Bearing

Product Marketing — Tue, 31 May 2016 17:00:19 +0000

Ticona GmbH is a producer of high-performance plastics. It closely supports customers in a large number of key markets customers during their engineering design process. Before implementing material simulation, they faced challenges with correctly modeling fiber reinforced plastic parts, obtaining quantitative and predictive results from FEA, and using a unique material description valid for all ...

Case Study: Predicting Virtual Allowables

Product Marketing — Thu, 12 May 2016 20:00:34 +0000

During the process of designing lightweight CFRP structures, one usually needs access to allowable values. However, allowables generation is particularly costly and time-consuming. Each characterized material system must cover various layups, coupon tests, and environment conditions. Each test configuration must be repeated many times to obtain a statistical evaluation of the mechanical property. With advanced ...

Global Adaptive Meshing In Marc

Product Marketing — Thu, 05 May 2016 03:18:44 +0000

Adaptive meshing is a simulation technique used to automatically remesh parts of a finite element model during the solution phase, based on certain criteria set at the start of the analysis. Adaptive meshing can be broadly classified into two types – global remeshing and local adaptivity. Global adaptive meshing is extremely useful for cases where ...