Consumers today want increasingly smart, efficient and customized products that can be delivered in a timely manner. We are seeing a new product generation emerge across industries, powered by a spectacular innovation wave, including ever-increasing mechatronics, new lightweight materials and digital tech-nologies like the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). This additional complex-ity is no longer manageable in a traditional, verification-centric develop-ment process, so manufacturers are deploying new approaches that enable them to predict product behavior on an individual level over the entire lifecycle, including all multi-physics. Test depart-ments are feeling the effects of this evolution in their work, both in volume and technical content. More than ever, they need innovative testing solutions that help them achieve maximum productivity.

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Today’s simulation methodologies often lack the realism to deliver prediction-capable models. Yet those models are essential for complex product develop-ment or for use in embedded software to enable smart behavior. Test departments play a crucial role in filling the current gaps. This goes way beyond measuring accurate data for standard structural correlation and model updating. Testing allows companies to explore uncharted design territories and build knowledge about new materials and all the addi-tional parameters that come with mechatronic components. This requires specialized, high-precision tools. And it adds an enormous amount of validation work for test departments on top of their standard tasks, which already are per-formed under growing time pressure. These include prototype validation and certification.

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It has never been more critical to optimize design in a system’s early development stages when it is still conceptual. There is immense pressure to reach the ever-increas-ing performance levels in the context of increasingly complex, interconnected and smart products. Any defect identified early in the process will be easier to solve and have little impact on the project timeline and cost. That cost will be negligible compared to product recalls and the negative impact on brand image if the issue is discovered later in the design cycle.

Smart products, tailored to personal needs, preferences and habits – that’s what consumers want today. As a manufacturer, you must fulfill this request, and design products with increasing complexity. These products include mechanical and electronic components, software and controls.

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The industry mandate for energy efficiency also persists. Environmental concerns such as the scarcity of fossil fuels and global warming continue to raise the importance of fuel efficiency. New lightweight materials and manufacturing methods are required to address this challenge, as are intelligent systems that optimize energy consumption.

Smart products also evolve over time. They include many sensors that optimize product performance after delivery, communicate with each other and their environment, and feed information back to design teams for further improvement. This scenario requires powerful data management and analytics in a digital solution that involves the entire product lifecycle.

All these challenges come in addition to classic performance requirements such as comfort and durability, and further pressure the design process. Engineering departments must continuously find ways to deal with more parameters, data and product variations in less time. The traditional verification and validation approach needs to gain efficiency and close the loop with the product in use.

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Addressing complex engineering challenges by enhancing simulation efficiency

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) has long proven its value as a troubleshoot-ing and analysis tool, but is generally perceived as slow, delivering accurate results too late to drive development. The simulation process with traditional CAE tools is slow due to tedious geom-etry cleanup processes, and simulation disciplines are disconnected from each other, hampering efficient workflows.

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To meet complex challenges, product engineering teams need a unified, shared platform for all simulation disciplines, with leading-edge analysis tools that are easy-to-use, incorporate more productive workflows and produce consistent results.

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Summary

Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop software is a unified, scalable, open and extensible 3D CAE environment for advanced analysts. Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop speeds the simula-tion process by helping you to efficiently build the simulation model you need from 3D geometry faster than traditional CAE preprocessors. Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop includes unrivaled geometry manipula-tion tools that can handle CAD data from any source, as well as dedicated meshing and modeling for multiple analysis domains including structures, dynamics, composites, thermal, flow, motion, acoustics, multiphysics and optimization. The centralized pre/post environment of the Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop enables you to prepare models for both Simcenter 3D solvers and other popular third-party solvers, like Abaqus, ANSYS, LS-Dyna, and MSC Nastran. Simcenter 3D Engineering Desktop keeps the CAE process in synch with design through a bi-directional analysis model to design geometry association that enables users to rapidly update an analysis model whenever the base design changes.

Simcenter™ 3D software optimization solutions relieve the burden of improving product designs by automating the iterative process. This enables you to compare your design’s performance against specifications. It enables you to start at topology optimization and extend to design space exploration with more classical parametric optimization capabilities.

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Simcenter™ 3D Space Systems Thermal software is the space industry vertical application that provides a comprehen-sive set of tools to conduct orbital thermal analyses within the Simcenter 3D environment. Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal helps resolve thermal engineering challenges early in the design process and is a valuable tool for predicting and understanding thermal physics for space-bound, orbiting and interplanetary vehicles.

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Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal continues Siemens’ long heritage in thermal simulation and leverages the same technology that underpinned the I-deas™ TMG solution. Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal is ideal for orbital vehicle applications with com-plex 3D design geometry. Users can easily employ Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal to build small thermal models for conceptual studies all the way to detailed geometry-based models when high-fidelity analysis is required.

The Simcenter 3D Space Systems Thermal module enables you to effec-tively use simulation to provide design

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Why digital simulation?

Industry pressure to reduce costs and improve quality is driving growth in the use of digital simulation through-out the product lifecycle. Choosing the right tools is key to achieving the business benefits of digital simulation.

Why Femap?

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Siemens PLM Software’s Femap™ system is a part of the Simcenter portfolio of simulation products and facilitates an advanced engineering analysis environment. CAD-neutral and solver-neutral technology and cost-effective functionality have enabled Femap to become the world’s most popular engineering analysis environment for Nastran users. It is widely used by the world’s leading engineering organizations and consultants to model complex products, systems and processes, including satellites, aircraft, defense, automotive vehicles, electronics, heavy construction equipment, lift cranes, marine vessels and process equipment.

Femap with Simcenter Nastran® software are highly integrated and can be sold together as a bundled solution. But more than this, being open to all solvers, Femap demonstrates the power and value as a core analysis tool.

Femap is CAD independent and leverages Siemens PLM Software’s Parasolid® modeling kernel that allows direct access to Parasolid data for surface and solid modeling in addition to advanced geometric tools necessary for accessing non-Parasolid geometry.

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