Don’t Be Late to Simulate

The first presentation in this keynote track will discuss the rise of intelligent design technologies used throughout industry to rapidly assess and optimize product performance before physical prototypes. The session will include a brief hands-on demonstration of some of the latest, easy-to-use simulation technologies that are empowering designers and design engineers around the world to capitalize on the digital design revolution.

The benefits of simulation in design and manufacturing simulation are well documented. But company management tends to be unaware of the advantages of simulating manufacturing early in product development. As a result, engineers lack the support from leadership that they need to overcome the roadblocks to adopt these simulation and digital transformation tools.

In this keynote, Shawn Wasserman, Senior Editor at engineering.com, will outline survey results that depict the benefits of simulation throughout a product’s lifecycle and share tips on how engineers can convince management to take up these technologies.

Design Partners’ mission is to elevate human potential. As a product design & innovation agency, they know that one skillset is required to conceive of ground-breaking future solutions and another to deliver on that innovation.

In this keynote, James Lynch, Engineering Director for Design Partners, will talk about the role physical prototyping has played in the firm’s 35 year history, and the role digital prototyping has started to play in their future. He will delve into why the team brought simulation in-house and explain the benefits they are seeing in their collaborations with some of the world’s most innovative brands.

A session designed for those who do not currently use simulation technologies, are outsourcing most/all of their analysis, or still use limited CAD embedded simulation tools. Here you can understand the benefits of the technologies from companies that have recently implemented simulation; and through our interactive sessions, experience how easy it is to get started, even with limited resources.

Pentre Group is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of reels, drums and spools for linear wound products, specializing in both plastic and metallic products. This presentation will give an insight into the benefits realized by its design team from adopting rapid simulation technologies used during the development of thin-walled structures.

In this presentation Carlos from NOV is will share his experience with SimSolid and show us how the technology is allowing him to very quickly assess structural performance of some very large CAD models including walkways used in Oil fields.

Special-purpose machine design needs quick and flexible responses to individual customer requirements while maintaining a tight focus on quality and safety requirements. With limited time and personnel, the traditional FEM could not provide sufficient confidence for design decisions. Hear how ATNA Industry Solutions has turned simulation into a design tool.

Learn from other small and medium design and engineering teams how simulation can be applied early in the product development lifecycle, to rapidly accelerate the creation and optimization of structurally efficient parts, systems, and assemblies. Attend this session to see how a simulation-driven design approach can reduce your development time while saving development and manufacturing costs.

Rescroft are an automotive seating specialist in the UK. In this presentation João will talk about their use of SimSolid in their design process along with other tools that’s available within the Altair concept engineering suite.

Benoit Pelourdeau presents how Stanley Robotics SAS drives the design process with simulation, to develop the world’s first robotic car storage service. Learn from him how the interdisciplinary mechatronic product development team succeeds with accurate virtual prototypes.

The design of architectural components such as a balustrade can be challenging, since the design does not only have to look good, it also has to meet several safety requirements and standards. This presentation will discuss the use of simulation and optimization technologies to develop a new lightweight aluminum profile for a glass balustrade with increased stiffness, shorter design time and reduced production costs.

Unleash the full power of simulation by exploring the behavior of your products in any possible working condition to maximize performances and improve robustness. Through examples and best practices, find out how Altair’s easy-to-use Multiphysics solutions can inject innovation, and how our unique token-based licensing model makes it highly cost-effective.

The usability of a headset is largely determined by a comfortable fit and its resistance to everyday use. Learn from Alice Lin, Manager of Mechanics at GN Audio R&D how she introduced FEM simulation capabilities at Jabra. The presentation shows how product design benefits from structural analysis, design for comfort, and drop test simulation. A future extension of simulation capabilities intends to address more areas and improve the simulation-driven design process efficiency.

Dactem (a DAM group company), developer of specialist test, measurement and assembly solutions for the aerospace industries, presents an overview of the optimization of a thrust balance used for accurate measurements in electrical thruster qualification endurance testing. The presentation will provide details on how a Multiphysics simulation approach was used to find the optimum design taking mechanical, thermal and electromagnetic performance into account.

Electrification is everywhere! It brings energy efficiency into systems and also helps add new smart functionalities to products. The electric motor is a key element of such systems, converting electricity into mechanical power. It is multiphysics by nature. Electric machine engineers need to take into account various constraints from the early stage of the design, looking at electromechanical performance, as well as respecting thermal and NVH constraints. Simulations need to integrate these multiple physics and also coupling effects. Dedicated tools and streamlined multiphysics workflows are developed in order to reduce complexity and speed up the design.

This workshop will demonstrate how a simulation-driven design approach to product development can have a drastic impact on the performance, design time, and profitability of a new product. Using a belt sander tool as a demonstration model, our presenters will show how Altair’s design and simulation technologies can conduct a concept design analysis and optimization of the sander external housing to improve stiffness and reduce weight. They will go on to show how we can simulate the manufacturing process itself by looking at filling, packing, cooling and warpage of the plastic housing; before concluding with a series of stress analysis and validation studies such as a virtual drop test, 3-point bending simulation and even a study of the effect of the heat transfer of the electric motor. This is a valuable session to see how simulation technologies can be used throughout the design process, adding value and reducing development time at each stage.