Engineering simulation is a term associated with prediction (or calculation) of non-linear, mathematical equations that can't be solved on a piece of paper. Engineering simulation is used in many industries such as Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Electronics Design to make critical decisions while saving money.
According to the 451 Global Digital Infrastructure Alliance: Enterprise datacenters only use 56% of their capacity.
It is crucial for any software with modeling functionality to support the user’s design process by making the modeling interface intuitive and easy to use. To accomplish this, modeling software often contains library items for the user to simply drag and drop into the model.
Using the 6Sigma Digital Twin’s built-in libraries of cabinets and IT devices, the aerospace enterprise was able to quickly amend models and simulate the impact of new IT equipment deployment.
Discover expert thermal analysis, innovative airflow visualization, cross-team collaboration, and immersive capacity planning when you virtualize your data center with the 6Sigma Digital Twin.
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) as well as historical and real-time data, 6SigmaDCX creates a dynamic data center digital twin, or the 6Sigma Digital Twin.
This blog shines a light on one of Europe’s largest automotive manufacturers and how they improved cooling across all data center halls to minimize risk and maximize energy efficiency using the 6Sigma Digital Twin, and in doing so, they yielded greater benefits for the long-term.
Future Facilities 6SigmaDCX product suite creates a 6Sigma Digital Twin of your data center that simulates its physical behavior under any operating scenario. Understanding your organization’s crucial performance metrics, including capacity utilization, power, airflow, and cooling, from a science-based simulation perspective enables effective capacity planning and smooth operations.
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6SigmaET is a leading electronics thermal simulation software with state-of-the-art intelligence, automation, and accuracy.
Financial enterprises are embracing digitalization and new high-density equipment to empower split-second decision-making and transactions. What steps will enterprise organizations need to take to extend the life of existing facilities given these growing demands? Future Facilities and Black & Veatch present Data Center Solutions: Helping Financial Enterprises Maximize Performance, an eBook revealing the success of one leading global organization in the financial industry.
This blog post explores how Digital Twins and Monitoring Systems Work Together.
It is a common misconception that digital twin software and DCIM are competitors. This post examines instead how digital twins and DCIM are complementary toolsets.
How Do Digital Twins and Monitoring Systems Work Together? In the data center industry, it’s a given that having the right data is essential for making sound decisions throughout design and operations. But agreeing on how best to get that data is a different story.
Creating a Digital Twin or virtual copy of the data center is the surest way to navigate the changes your data center faces. This blog will walk you through where and how a Digital Twin fits into the constantly changing landscape that is the data center industry.
Engineering Simulation is used in many industries such as Aerospace, Oil & Gas, Automotive, Electronics Design to make critical decisions while saving money. For the Data Center industry, it predicts airflow and temperature distribution regardless of the status of the site.
Many organizations are beginning to implement plans to return to the office. The COVID-19 pandemic has everyone rethinking office spaces, especially the all too common open-office space.
Simulation-based digital twins, especially when implementing new data center technology, streamline data center design and operations management.
The Digital Twin provides a collaborative framework and the necessary design tools to drive informed, real-time decisions regarding thermal risk and capacity utilization. 6SigmaDCX Release 15 streamlines data center design and management with new big data features, faster model creation and automation across the board.
This e-book outlines the necessity for unlocking your data center’s business potential.
Our vision is a world where all data centers can realize their business potential. To make this vision a reality, we are pioneering the concept of the Digital Twin for data center design and management.
You may not know it, but today data centers are crucial: they underpin daily life throughout society. Every time you use common tools on the Internet like Google, Facebook, or YouTube, a data center somewhere is involved in this process.
Deploying any change within your data center can seem daunting. But with a data center Digital Twin you can undertake virtual testing of those changes, using physics-based simulation, ensuring nothing goes into a live environment that hasn’t already been assessed for performance.
Future Facilities company and data center digital twins overview video series.
A six-part video series on data center digital twins.
6SigmaRoom is the industry’s leading data center CFD tool. It is part of the 6SigmaDCX software suite, which integrates IT and engineering operations in capacity planning.
Our vision is a world where all data centers can realize their business potential. To make this vision a reality, we are pioneering the concept of the Digital Twin for data center design and management.
London, UK, 10 January 2022 – 6SigmaET by Future Facilities launches its latest software version, Release 16, which introduces an … Continue reading 6SigmaET by Future Facilities Launches the 16th Version of its Thermal Simulation Software for the Electronics Industry, Release 16.
OCTOBER 16, 2020; CINCINNATI, OH – The global industry collaboration and technology alliance Revolution In Simulation (“Rev-Sim” at www.rev-sim.org), created … Continue reading The Revolution in Simulation Continues to Expand as Future Facilities Joins the Growing Global Alliance of Participants
SAN JOSE, CA – Future Facilities, a software company that addresses data center management with physics-based data to align design, … Continue reading Future Facilities Revolutionizes Data Center Management with the New Digital Twin
Simulation-based digital twins can ensure your facility maximizes performance and reclaims unused capacity without risk or downtime. Learn to use 6SigmaDCX to study the impact of new cooling technologies and optimize your data center facilities.
Learn how 6SigmaDCX Release 15 ensures that the right data gets to the right people within an enterprise organization.
The stakes are high in data center operation. The industry is experiencing significant downtime and efficiency issues that can be addressed through simulation.
When CBRE’s global finance customer wanted to improve energy efficiency in a Tier IV data center – without compromising availability or sacrificing capacity – they chose the 6Sigma Digital Twin to make it happen.
Wholesale colocation and high-performance computing provider Kao Data uses Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation to validate data center Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) design.
Kaiser Permanente initiated a project to modernize their legacy data centers using the 6Sigma Digital Twin’s Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation capabilities.
Airedale chose the 6SigmaDCX software suite to help them optimize the design of their state-of-the-art ACUs and chillers.
The 6Sigma Digital Twin uses the 6SigmaDCX product suite to create a 3D virtual replica of your physical facility. With a powerful Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) engine, it calculates cooling and airflow like no other software available. The 6Sigma Digital Twin provides a centralized platform for teams to track and plan power, space, cooling, weight, IT assets and network port capacity.
Wholesale and high-performance colocation provider Kao Data worked together with Future Facilities, using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation to validate its data center Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) design.
Thésée DataCenter integrated the 6Sigma Digital Twin into their DCMS to ensure informed decision making in design and operations.
Airedale chose the 6SigmaDCX software suite to help optimize the design of their state-of-the-art ACUs and chillers. The Digital Twin addresses the demand for more effective cooling systems by using Computational Fluid Dynamics to simulate airflow. This has improved Airedale’s performance in design stages and enabled them to build a precise replica of their test facility. For Airedale, this has resulted in better offerings to customers as well as enhanced research and development.
When RED Engineering designed a state-of-the-art rooftop plant for a Tier III 40,000 ft2 data center, they used the Digital Twin (DT) to predictively simulate the impact on the facility’s operating conditions. As a result of doing so, they were able to safely instigate a significant redesign that safeguarded the cooling plant’s performance in extreme weather conditions.
When Upsite Technologies, leaders in data center airflow management, sought to design and market their unique AisleLok®
You may not know it, but today data centers are crucial: they underpin daily life throughout society. Every time you use common tools on the Internet like Google, Facebook, or YouTube, a data center somewhere is involved in this process.
Citigroup utilized the Digital Twin (DT) from Future Facilities to improve their NYC data center’s efficiency, uncovering potential savings of over $290,000 annually.