Turn Unproven Product Ideas into Proven Global Innovations

While many companies recognize how simulation can benefit their businesses, there are still significant challenges facing these companies limiting their ability to realize the full value of what traditional simulation can provide:

• Design and analysis teams work in different systems, so engineers waste time re-creating instead of re-using design data
• CAE data is badly managed, work is repeated because missing data limits confidence in existing models and out-of-date design data
• Independent point solutions lack support for multiple analysis disciplines, complicating the analysis process and limiting team efficiency

NX CAE is the answer to these challenges, and represents Siemens PLM Software’s vision for a completely integrated environment for simulation modeling and analysis in concert with simulation data and process management. This vision is a reality today, and is enabled through the NX suite of CAE applications which are tightly integrated with NX Design and Teamcenter. By leveraging all of the power of NX and Teamcenter, companies can apply simulation over the complete product lifecycle including:

• Simulation Driven Design
• Detailed Analysis
• Simulation Knowledge Capture & Process Automation
• Correlation & Validation
• Simulation Data & Process Management

Simulation Driven Design

Incorporate simulation much earlier into the product development lifecycle to alleviate the bottleneck that often occurs later in the development cycle. Detailed CAE analysis requires highly specialized engineers, which are in short supply at most manufacturers. Simulation driven design empowers designers to simulate the basic behaviors of their components and assemblies as they are first being developed for immediate feedback. Behaviors designers can analyze are:

• Structural strength & durability
• Vibration
• Buckling
• Thermal
• Dynamic motion

Simulation gives designers confidence they are delivering a more robust part to the engineering team for detailed analysis, resulting in fewer iterations between CAE analysts and the design team. The bottom line results in the ability to deliver your products to market faster.

NX supports this design simulation environment through repeatable and automated simulation process capturing CAE best practices. Allowing a design engineer to leverage the power of advanced analysis technology directly within a CAD centric design environment.

Fact Sheets – Simulation Driven Design:

• NX Design Simulation
• NX Design Simulation Wizards
• NX Durability Wizard
• NX Motion Simulation-Recurdyn
• NX Flexible Bodies Dynamic Solution

Detailed Analysis

Detailed analysis often involves complex parts and assemblies requiring high model fidelity, complex simulations, and accurate results. Siemens PLM Software offers an advanced simulation environment that provides a multi-discipline suite for sophisticated analyses, including:

• Structural
• Thermal
• Flow / CFD
• Response Dynamics
• Multi-physics
• Optimization
• Multi-Body Dynamics

Furthermore, these advanced simulation capabilities are offered in the NX environment which allows engineers to seamlessly collaborate with the design team. Engineers can easily update their analysis models as the design changes and reduce errors resulting from data translation.

Fact Sheets – Detailed Analysis:

• NX Advanced FEM
• NX Advanced Simulation
• NX Nastran
• NX & MSC Nastran Environment
• Abaqus Environment
• ANSYS Environment
• LS-Dyna Environment
• NX Response Simulation
• NX Flow
• NX Advanced Flow
• NX Thermal
• NX Advanced Thermal
• NX Advanced Durability
• NX Laminate Composites
• NX Electronic Systems Cooling
• NX Space Systems Thermal
• NX Topology Optimization 
• NX Motion Control Simulation 

Simulation Knowledge Capture & Process Automation

Promote knowledge-sharing and establish best practice methodologies. Siemens PLM Software provides solutions that allow expert CAE analysts to capture, author and publish automated simulation processes to aid less experienced designers or engineers to accelerate the development process. Customize best practice ‘wizards’ to meet your specific CAE processes and analysis requirements to ensure that the end user obtains realistic and reliable results. Simulation process automation frees up the CAE expert’s time to carry out more difficult and complex analysis on the most critical tasks.

Related Link:

• Teamcenter for Simulation

Fact Sheets – Simulation Knowledge Capture & Process Automation:

• NX Open
• NX Simulation Process Studio
• NX Design Simulation Wizards

Correlation & Validation

When an engineer creates and simulates a finite element model, the question is often asked, “How do you know your analysis model is accurate?” Siemens PLM Software helps to answer that question by facilitating comparison of the finite element model to measured test data so the engineer can assess the degree of match. A high degree of match, or correlation, between the analysis results and the test data gives the engineer confidence that the analysis model is accurate. Siemens’ correlation and validation solutions are fully integrated in the NX environment and can geometrically align the models, pair the modes from both solutions, view mode shapes side by side, and compute and display correlation metrics.

Fact Sheets – Correlation & Validation:

• NX FE Model Correlation
• NX FE Model Upating

Simulation Data & Process Management

From the moment a designer has a set of requirements and starts working with concept models, through to the point an engineer is validating designs and correlating predictions with test data, designers and engineers are generating huge amounts of data. Siemens PLM Software is to be able to capture that knowledge and make it available for re-use by engineers at a later date. By capturing and managing CAE data and processes, you build long term knowledge and value for your company.

Simulation data management provides a single organized and secure source for simulation data and processes. Centralizing simulation data allows designers and engineers to more easily collaborate and find the right data. By ensuring that simulation teams can more effectively coordinate their activities, simulation processes can more effectively be integrated into the development process to increase process efficiency while delivering better products.

Related Link:

• Teamcenter for Simulation