SimManager – Simulating Reality, Delivering Certainty

Taming the Most Detailed Product Data Imaginable

Product Marketing — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:33:43 +0000

Original article published on advancedmanufacturing.org Some things are a given today. One is computing is cheap and powerful, and it is getting cheaper and more powerful. Another is the dropping price of industrial sensors. Combine this with easier ways of moving around data from those sensors and you get lots of data: Terabytes of data. ...

Left of Test: How Manufacturing Variability Affects Material Properties

Product Marketing — Tue, 24 May 2016 17:00:54 +0000

For manufacturers, materials property data plays a significant role in strengthening product design, manufacturing process, after market performance and profitability. This is mainly because knowing property data gives manufacturers the ability to determine engineering property matrix. Uncontrollable and unscalable variation of material property can result in lack of prediction, thus governance on the material behavior ...

HPC – The Genesis of SDM

Product Marketing — Tue, 24 May 2016 04:04:35 +0000

The first commercial SDM platform was deployed into production on BMW’s HPC on 19 December 2000 (ref 1). Virtual Insight, the platform for BMW’s CAE Bench solution, had been deployed by a visionary team at Silicon Graphics, the HPC provider. The Munich-based SGI Professional Services team had decided to develop a technology framework to enable the development of domain solutions for HPC users. Virtual Insight was designed to enable the automation of dataset management; to assemble sets of data, transfer the data to the HPC and then collect and collate the results. The idea was to reduce the data management overhead on simulation experts whilst providing traceability of results, thus enabling analysts to submit more jobs on HPCs.

Why Traditional Data Management Methods Are No Longer Efficient for Simulation

Product Marketing — Mon, 23 May 2016 17:00:16 +0000

There are several engineering software environments that cover a broad range of products, derivatives, duty cycles, and multi-stage/multi-discipline simulations. Some manufacturers have a regulatory environment or liability issues that require them to use and document all the simulation activities they have performed, or the ones they need to optimize, which can mean that every simulation ...

Should I Invest in Simulation Process Data Management (SPDM)?

Product Marketing — Fri, 20 May 2016 17:00:02 +0000

Should I Invest in Simulation Process Data Management (SPDM)? Today, simulation process and data management systems (SPDM) are being used by many manufacturing companies. SPDM significantly contributes to their efforts to maintain competitive advantage in the market. With SPDM, companies are able to increase productivity, improve their quality with fewer errors and gain a ...

How to Use Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) with Your System Dynamics Workflow

Product Marketing — Thu, 19 May 2016 17:00:22 +0000

How to Use Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) with Your System Dynamics Workflow Over the past 15 years simulation process and data management (SPDM) systems have become more advanced alongside the increasing need for complex testing and simulations. SPDM now gives companies the ability to have more effective processes, more certain data outputs ...

Multibody Dynamics Integrated with Simulation Process and Data Management

Product Marketing — Wed, 18 May 2016 17:00:10 +0000

Today, manufacturing firms are avoiding iterative and costly physical testing processes by implementing CAE tools into their engineering cycle. They only produce few or sometimes no prototypes at all and they easily test the products’ durability, noise and vibration harshness (NVH), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and morewith these tools during the design process. Particularly ...

Adams Car Integration with Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM)

Product Marketing — Tue, 17 May 2016 17:01:04 +0000

To avoid iterative tests and multiple design changes to physical prototypes, engineers today use simulation software. Adams Car is a system dynamics solution that allows car manufacturers to build and test functional virtual prototypes of the complete vehicle under various road conditions and design changes. Adams Car’s architecture is based on databases of CDBs, which ...

Improved Engineering Productivity Through Use of Engineering Lifecycle Management Software

Product Marketing — Mon, 16 May 2016 17:00:36 +0000

With CAE driving the design process at Ashok Leyland, the types of simulations performed as part of the vehicle development process is growing rapidly. Multiple simulation tools are required to address each of the different domains involved in vehicle development. Each tool requires a fairly complex process in which the user develops a model, inputs various engineering data, performs an analysis, reviews the results and authors a report to support design decisions. Ashok Leyland previously automated some of these steps for a few simulation tools using macros and scripts, but these point solutions were difficult to ensure the usage and maintain. The previous process relied upon the skills of the individual analysts writing the scripts. These automations were not always shared, versioned or used consistently among engineering groups, resulting in inconsistent results from one analyst to another and lacked traceability. The lack of a common simulation structure meant that it was difficult to locate the results and understand the reasons for previous decisions, so work often had to be duplicated.