Implementation Goals:

Reduce the time required to clean up CAD geometry and generate a precise FEA mesh based on known criteria. The current average time for geometry cleanup and mesh creation is more than eight hours. For complex asymmetric wheels, this time can be sixteen hours. It is desired to reduce this time to less than four hours

Program Advantages:

– Automates multiple sequential or parallel siting analyses, where each analysis may itself execute multiple steps.

– Provides the flexibility to define the workflow and the set of steps that form the analysis, as well as the dependencies among them.

– Serves as a corporate knowledge base while providing automated reporting & searching of previous analyses.

– Provides the same simplified user experience and global access to the entire wind farm engineering team and the sales organization

Presented at CAASE 18, this presentation outlines the challenges and benefits of Democratized Simulation as implemented by GKN Driveline. The presentation compares and contrasts traditional analysis methods with Democratized Simulation.

Thanks to the results provided through modeling and simulation and a quick turnaround, the Clippard team was able to make changes in their computer translation to correct the issue and manufacture a better product. Since the valve solution, Clippard has developed new methods to measure their material surface, improving processes from initial computational design to the finished product. According to Robertson, modeling and simulation has saved the team valuable time and resources.

Published in 2016

For pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, modeling technology serves as the backbone for product design, testing, and improvement. Streamlining and integrating the modeling process and workflows is essential for maximum efficiency as well as for enabling non-experts practical access to these tools.

Using EASA, Pfizer can create custom GUIs without any programming, for various modeling applications, from simple to complex multi-software workflows, providing:

• Web accessible models running with complete reliability throughout the IT infrastructure, including mobile devices
• GUIs with a consistent look and feel, enhancing ease of use and eliminating the need to be familiar with complex software codes
• Complete security of the intellectual property embedded in software models
• Full version control and automated audit trail of usage

Published: Fall 2016

At Air International, computer simulation has long been viewed as a key competitive advantage, permitting early evaluation of many different design alternatives before building a prototype. With EASA, Air International has leveraged these benefits by creating custom, task-specific applications simplifying the use of many CAE workflows, including tools such as Fluent, NX/NASTRAN, and CATIA. Furthermore, expert knowledge was embedded into the streamlined user interface, making modeling and simulation available to engineers and designers with little or no CAE experience while also significantly accelerating the process for experienced users.

In addition to significant ease of use improvements, Air International benefited from many other EASA advantages, including:

• Deployment of tools and models was easy and fast
• Access control (who could see results, use apps and collaborate) was implemented, as well as audit information tracking
• Critical intellectual property embedded in the models was completely secured
• Custom apps could be developed by experienced modelers without relying on programmers, enabling a highly efficient implementation and knowledge capture process

Published: Fall 2016