Femap Références Clients
Company: ABB Bomem
Products: High Tech/Electronics - designs, manufactures and markets interferometers and spectroradiometers used in petroleum, chemical, life science, and remote sensing/aerospace applications.
Results: Faster turnaround time on analyses speeds product development Greater flexibility in how and when analysis is used.
Quote: “The Femap with NX Nastran FEA system helps us develop products in the shortest amount of time possible” – Nicolas Étienne - Mechanical Group Leader
Company: Alcatel Transport Automation Solutions
Products: Provider of train control, signaling, interlocking, control centre and integrated rail communications technology to urban rail and main line rail operators worldwide.
Results: Cost of physical testing – $60,000 if prototype equipment overheats and is ruined during testing.
Quote: “The Solid Edge-Femap solution is helping us meet our goal of creating a reliable signaling system for the London Underground.” – Flaviu Sasu – Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Engineering Group
Company: Allseas Group S.A.
Products: Major offshore pipe-laying and subsea construction.
Results: Fast preparation of analysis model and results presentation allow for rapid model changes that meet insurer’s regulations.
Quote: “Femap lets us prepare analysis models quickly, and present the results quickly. And it gives us the functionality we need for a good price.” Moshir Daoud – Structural Engineer
Company: Aquila Engineering
Products: Aerospace services provider.
Results: Higher engineering productivity bringing about significant cost savings and reduced time required for prototyping and physical testing.
Quote: ““Femap with NX Nastran directly improves the quality of our work, and this is seen in the reduction of prototyping and testing required.” Ben Terrell – Engineering Manager
Company: ATA
Products:Provider of analysis- and test-driven design solutions for structural, mechanical, electromechanical and aerospace products.
Results: Without the need for any formal training, the Femap API was used to facilitate the visualization of composite analysis results and reduced the time taken for analysis and review from several days to just minutes.
Quote: “The software's open architecture makes it easy to interact with your models and result data. When I use the Femap API, I get the data in its native form from the solver.” – Charles Webber- Engineer, ATA
Company: ATA Engineering
Products: Provider of analysis- and test-driven design solutions for structural, mechanical, electromechanical and aerospace products.
Results: Fast turnaround of analyses allows ATA to meet customers’ expectations by delivering technically accurate results within their tight delivery schedules.
Quote: “We find Femap to be the best value product – the most capable for the cost. And our customers’ evaluations reveal that they consistently agree.” – David Hunt – Vice President of Business Development
Baotou Hydraulic Machinery
Products: A wide variety of machinery and industrial products including hydraulic oil cylinders, gas cylinders, high efficiency fine oil filtering devices, lubricant filtering devices, hydraulic accessories and complete hydraulic lubricating and pneumatic systems.
Results: Fewer prototypes manufactured which led to reduced costs, shorter development times and an overall 40% design cycle reduction.
Quote: “Femap with NX Nastran simplifies the product validation process. Reduced prototypes also lead to reduced costs and shorter development times. The design cycle has been reduced by 40 percent.” Cui Zhongqin - Chief Engineer
Company: Benalu
Products: Aluminum vehicles.
Results: Finite element analysis moved in-house allowing faster throughput and increased design optimization.
Quote: “We can optimize the design a way that that we could not do when analysis was performed by an external provider” Bertrand Sibile - Purchasing Director
Company: Challenge B.V.
Products: Recumbent bicycles designed to be super-lightweight
Results: The use of FEA has allowed more focused testing that leads to better prototypes, bicycles to be brought into production earlier, designs to the upper material limits, and the design weight targets to be realized
Quote: "In an innovative field such as ours, FEA is a critical tool, Femap and NX Nastran let us indulge our creativity without fear that the ideas will lead the company down the wrong road.” -- Paul Voerman - President and Founder
Company: Cideon Engineering
Products: Railway vehicles and production equipment for the automotive industry
Results: The use of FEA provides precise information during the design stage about how a part will behave, allows the design to be optimized, and helps meet regulatory compliance.
Quote: “Femap’s extremely good visualization of analysis results was certainly one of the points in its favor.” Thomas Labedzki - CAE Engineer
Company: Columbia Helicopters
Products: Helicopter operations and maintenance
Results: The use of Femap with NX Nastran provided faster part validation for FAA approval, brought about reduced costs and fewer delays through reduced physical testing, and increased lifting capacity with optimized weight reduction of structural components.
Quote: “The lighter the helicopter is, the more it can lift, and the more it can carry in one load the more money we make. With FEA, we can validate how much material we can remove from a part and still maintain safe margins, Without FEA you could go too far or not far enough in the weight reduction” – - Ron Heberlein - Senior Mechanical Engineer
Criotec
Products: Commercial refrigeration equipment
Results: New product development reduced by 50 percent with dramatically faster digital design validation with no need for physical validation.
Quote:“In reducing time, we save costs by making more rapid digital validations. This has been a big change, because before we had to conduct physical validations to ensure the customer’s requirements were met.” Eduin Villanueva - Engineering Manager
Company: Dae Han Control
Products: Electro-pneumatic valve positioners.
Results: Quicker time to market with significantly reduced errors and costs which allowed a confident expansion into the global market.
Quote: “There are endless markets available to us. With the implementation of Solid Edge, Femap and NX Nastran, we intend to capitalize on further penetration into Europe and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and more!” – Yong Gab, President
Company: Damping Technologies Inc.
Products:Noise and vibration control
Results: Faster analysis throughput and a 75% reduction in run times for complex dynamic analyses, with new knowledge leading to damping innovations.
Quote: “I was used to ANSYS, but as I worked through the Femap tutorials, I found that it was intuitive and that I could get up and running with it quickly. It's flexible and intuitive” – Kristopher Notestine - Manager R&D
Company: Dynamic Concepts Inc.
Products: Aerospace structural engineering consulting services for solutions to technically complex problems supporting innovation in space exploration.
Results: Faster turnaround time on analyses speeds product development Greater flexibility in how and when analysis is used.
Quote: “With Femap we can quickly produce animations of the analysis results using the entire model, from inside or outside the structure and from any angle, depending on the interest. Femap takes all that engineering data and communicates it in a clear and intuitive way” – Anthony Williams – senior engineer.
Company: EADS Astrium Satellites UK
Products:Satellite operating platforms and payloads including solar generators, thermal management systems, guidance navigation and control systems.
Results: Quick model generation, easy handling of multiple modeling scenarios and the ability to automate certain processes allowed fast design validation.
Quote: “Everything we do is about trying to get it right the first time. Our success depends on how thoroughly we conduct the simulation and how quickly we get the results out.” – Glenn Harris, Structural Engineer.
Company: Equipos Nucleares S.A. (ENSA)
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Products: Equipment and components for nuclear power plants.
Results: Significant time savings in design and validation and greater accuracy in the design of critical parts.
Quote: “we have Solid Edge and Femap, along with good hardware and good technicians, we know that we can be among the best and that we can compete at the same level as other firms” – Luís Demetrio Ugalde - Design Room & CAD CAM Manager, ENSA
Company: Eucentre
Products: Seismic risk reduction research.
Results: Complete 3D modeling of a base isolator in a few days and nonlinear dynamic analysis on steel structures with accurate and reliable results.
Quote: “The initial model is created using Femap, the geometry and global input methods are compliant with the techniques learned by an engineer with a university degree." Roberto Nascimbene - Structural Analysis Sector CoordinatorManager
Company: Eurocopter
Products: Helicopter manufacturer
Results: Use of powerful FEA with automation using the Femap API reduced number of prototypes, and allowed simpler integration of new methods, materials and technologies.
Quote: “The integrated Visual Basic interface of Femap provides an unchallenged way to integrate our calculation tools to aid in further post processing, substantiation and documentation of stress analysis, particularly composite structures, leading to a faster automated process” – - Christopher Bach - Spokesperson
Company: Everdigm
Products:Construction machinery and firefighting equipment
Results: Reduced design time and number of defects and improved customer responsiveness
Company: Evektor-Aerotechnik
Products: Ultralight sport aircraft
Results: Awarded FAA special airworthiness certificate and created new aircraft models that impress the industry
Quote: “Femap’s value cannot be beaten by more expensive pre- and postprocessors, Femap really has no competition, and we are completely satisfied with the product’s functionality.” ” – - Milan Bureš - Structural Engineer
Company: FatigueWizard
Products: Fatigue life prediction software.
Results: A seamless integration with the Femap stress analysis software was created providing an intuitive, affordable option for fatigue analysis.
Quote: “After switching to Femap we realized we were able to work faster. One of our main clients also switched to Femap and has noticed the same thing. They tell us Femap paid for itself in just six months by letting them get more work done in a given period of time.” – Julian Holt – FatigueWizard co founder
Femto Engineering
Products:Structural analysis and engineering consulting.
Results: FEA analysis revealed that the crane flexibility was greater than expected giving rise to dynamic forces large enough to cause the collapse of the crane.
Quote: “One single beam element replaces hundreds of solid elements. This is a definite advantage of Femap. You can start your model from nodes and elements and not just from solid geometry.” Alexander Naatje - Project Engineer
Company: Fundicion Ductil Fabregas S.A.
Products: Urban furnishings, sewer covers and grates
Results: Achieved product performance certification in adherence to strict government standards
Company: GEASS
Products: Dental implants
Results: Faster development process through reduced physical prototyping while maintaining quality standards for product certification
Quote:"Femap enables us to thoroughly investigate the response of an object. This analysis is crucial, especially in a sector such as ours, in which safety and accuracy are essential.” – Paolo Gava – Technical Office Manager
GustoMSC
Products: Vessels to locate and drill for deep water offshore oil and gas.
Results: Femap’s modeling functionality and the ability to customize FEA processes using the API saved a lot of time and allowed potential hull problems to be found and eliminated in the design phase.
Quote: “Other products focus on automatic meshing of complex mechanical components, which Femap can do, but if you tried to do that with something as big as a hull, your model would be composed of solid elements. Modeling with beams and plates is a better approach, and something that Femap strongly supports.” – Timo de Beer - Principal Structural Engineer
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Products: Nuclear physics research
Results: Project design time halved including turnaround on the electromagnetic undulator for the European X-ray laser.
Quote: “Femap plays a critical role as we are able to quickly and reliably optimize our design efforts.” – Alexey Shabunov - Design Department Head
Company: Kevin Thomas Consultancy
Products: Engineering analysis services provider assisting clients in meeting seismic requirements of IEEE, NRC and other agencies
Results: Faster product development and less time and money spent on physical testing
Quote: "By doing this analysis, they can find out if the design will perform as it should without conducting a very expensive and impractical test.” - Kevin Thomas, Ph.D., P.E.
Company: Key Knife
Products: Chipping, flaking and planing systems for the wood products industry.
Results: Significant savings for each new product developed with considerable reduction of prototype development time leading to a better ability to compete in core business area with further diversification into new markets
Quote: “with NX Nastran speeds time to market, and in the case of new applications where we start out with no idea of the forces or the environment, without this software we wouldn’t know where to begin.” – John Greiner – Mechanical Engineer
Company: KIC Holdings
Products: Wheel end products such as hubs and brake drum assemblies.
Results: Use of Femap with NX Nastran allows the products to be made as light as possible while also delivering exceptional strength and durability.
Quote: “There is an adage, ‘measure twice, cut once’. In the mechanical engineering world, we use Femap with NX Nastran to calculate twice so we only test once. This pays off in time to market, lower costs and safer products on the roads” – Joe Brotherton - Director of Product Development
Customer: Korndörffer Contracting International
Products: Complete engineering, design and consulting services for on- and offshore oil and gas extraction.
Results: Structural designs are optimized for strength, safety and cost-effectiveness, and the use of Femap with NX Nastran resulted in fewer design iterations to arrive at an optimized design.
Quote: “Through the efficient use of Femap and NX Nastran, the number of iterations is reduced and the run time is shortened.” – Dieter Korndörffer – Technical Manager
Company: MT-Propeller
Products: Aircraft propeller manufacturer
Results: Reduced number of tests and prototypes and compressed production times; pushed back material boundaries and improved manufacturability; increased sales and growth.
Quote: “Femap and NX Nastran have played a major part in the company‘s growth. With these tools, we are able to push material boundaries even further and what we build is thus much lighter, but just as safe.” – Martin Albrecht - CEO
Company: Manitowoc
Products: Cranes
Results: By performing concurrent analyses, the company was able to go from a design concept to a finished, certified product in less than 18 months. The design was validated according to SAE and ANSI requirements.
Company: NASA
Products: NASA’s Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) satellite.
Results: The use of analysis has made it possible to eliminate physical testing for some individual components .
Quote: “The ease of creating the analysis model, combined with powerful post-processing tools, has reduced turnaround time for many analyses. In addition to overall ease-of-use, many features within Femap are helpful to our work” – Ryan Simmons - Lead Mechanical Analyst for GLAS (Geoscience Laser Altimeter System)
Company: Norton Motorcycles and Predictive Engineering
Products: Norton motorcycle manufacturer and Predictive Engineering consultants.
Results: With the Norton engine, it was Femap’s meshing capabilities that stood out. It was possible to create a finite element model of the engine using a variety of element types, for a more accurate simulation of real-world performance conditions. The new Norton machines were a hit with motorcyclists as soon as they were released and the first new models are already sold out.
Quote: “Because the analysis model was fairly complex, I needed my full grab bag of modeling tricks and tweaks. These were completely supported by Femap. We used NX Nastran because it is a true Nastran solution with a pedigree going back 30 years – it is the solver I trust for accuracy” – George Laird - PresidentPredictive Engineering
Customer: Pagnotta Engineering
Products: Space flight and aircraft hardware, flight simulation structures, and spacecraft ground handling equipment.
Results: Quickly design a support structure for the 555 lb IMAX camera for the shuttle Atlantis. The use of Femap with NX Nastran allowed trade-off studies to be performed very quickly.
Quote: “Femap is used by everyone at NASA. Everyone is comfortable with it and knows how powerful it is.” - Mike Pagnotta - President - Pagnotta Engineering
Company: Pagnotta Engineering
Products: Space flight and aircraft hardware, flight simulation structures, and spacecraft ground handling equipment.
Results: Use of Femap with NX Nastran analysis tools save time and money.
Quote: “The new interface of FEMAP 9.0 – 9.2 has increased our efficiency for both model generation and analysis of results” - Mike Pagnotta - President - Pagnotta Engineering
Company: Predictive Engineering
Products: Consultants – submarine analysis.
Results: Prediction of submarine performance to well below the target depth of 1,200 feet. Tight correlation between FEA predictions and strain gauge measurements. Submarine was certified solely on the basis of numerical methods.
Quote: “When engineers need to get real results, accurately and competently, they use Femap. It’s industrial-strength and stable” – George Laird - President
Company: Quartus Engineering
Products: Consultants - design and analysis of SpaceShipOne.
Results: Femap with NX Nastran help Quartus to design SpaceShipOne which completed two successful manned flights and helped claim the Ansari X-Prize – beating all competitors into space and meeting all mission requirements. Also the vehicle experienced no aeroelastic flutter issues during two suborbital flights and subsequent atmospheric re-entry and landings.
Quote: “In our work with SpaceShipOne, we selected Femap as the central processor before going to Nastran. In our opinion, it’s one of the best solutions on the market, and it’s very easy to use” – Chris Flannigan - Quartus Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering
Company: Quest Aircraft
Products: Utility turboprop aircraft
Results:Reduced physical testing and development costs – time for part validation reduced by a factor of 4, achieved FAA certification within seven months.
Quote: “I think the best feature of Femap with NX Nastran is that it was really easy to get started. Using Femap we were able to obtain information that would have taken four times as long to get from physical testing” – Brenton Ellis – design engineer
Company: Revolution Design
Products: High-speed lightweight marine vessel design
Results: Significantly reduced product development costs, faster design turnaround and improved process for meeting stringent industry standards.
Quote: “With trusted and strong CAE solution partners, we can concentrate on high-speed design/analysis, streamlined compliance with industry standards and deliver on expectations. Business is good and growing.” – Gary Davidson - Director and Principal Structural Design Engineer
Company: RPC Technologies
Products:Multiple industry including structural fiber-reinforced plastic fabrications for large piping and ducting systems as well as train components such as seats and panels.
Results:Streamlined design processes that reduce prototyping and produce optimized designs for maximum strength and minimum cost.
Quote:“Femap with NX Nastran is essential to this work, it allows us to get a prototype/production part much faster and with a greater degree of confidence that the part will be compliant with the performance specification” – Mark Harrison – engineering manager
Company: RUAG Aerospace Sweden AB
Products: Satellite and launch operation equipment
Results: Significant reduction in modeling time through the use of automated meshing functionality, that also allowed faster analysis turn-around time for more detailed and more accurate models.
Quote: “Femap's ability to import geometry enhances the quality of the analysis, and this feature of Femap lets us add more detail to the models so we get more accurate results” – Jan-Erik Larsson - head of engineering
Company: Ruhrpumpen
Products:Oil industry pumps
Results:Good correlation between the virtual model and actual test results with optimization of the casings that allowed a 20% saving in material used.
Quote: “An important consideration in our selection of Femap was the fact that it can handle contact surface problems” – Dirk Koep – designer
Company: Saber Design and Analysis Services
Products: Design and analysis services
Results: An application written with the Femap API that turns three weeks of modeling into an automated, three-minute, forms-driven operation.
Quote: “taken the intelligence of an experienced analyst and made it so that any engineer on the program can do the complex nonlinear structural analysis” – John Stewart - President
Company: SMIT Engineering
Products:Engineering consulting and support in the marine environment
Results:Recovery of the sunken vessel “Tricolor” outside Amsterdam harbor by determining using Femap with NX Nastran to determine how the wreck should be cut to withstand lifting forces.
Quote: “We use Femap to quickly formulate these types of calculations, the value of the promptness cannot be underestimated in this sector and Femap plays a vital role in this” – William Looijschelder – engineer
Company: SpaceWorks
Products: Next generation Plug-and-Play Satellite (PnPSat) structures that comprise a modular framework of panels that can be quickly assembled into a fully functional and ready to launch satellite in only a few days.
Results: Advanced FEA capabilities and versatile modeling functionality allowed the satellite designs to be verified in days rather than months or years.
Quote: "Creating advanced models that are both accurate and fast definitely gives us a competitive edge and has become a critically important contribution on these fast-paced, technically challenging spacecraft projects.” – Jeff Preble, President.
Company: Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)
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Products: Launch vehicle developer and launch services provider.
Results: More effective collaboration between design groups, and a 50% productivity improvement helped successfully launch two Falcon 1 rockets.
Quote: “the analysis front Femap and NX Nastran were the clear winners, not only due to wide industry acceptance but also from an ease of use and support standpoint” – Chris Thompson - Vice President of Development Operations, SpaceX
Company: Washington County Building Services
Products:Structural engineering consulting services to the construction industry
Results:A better understanding of crack propagation dynamics was achieved through the use of Femap’s pre- and postprocessing functionality and through successful analyses comprising thermal and structural loading.
Quote: “In my professional opinion Femap is the most comprehensive pre- and postprocessor available” – Kofi Nelson-Owusu – building engineer