Today’s products often have various controllers that include electronics, hydraulics and software components. The behavior of the control system impacts the hardware mechanical system, and vice-versa, and so it’s critical for mechanical and controls engineers to understand these effects as they develop their systems. You can increase engineering productivity by simulating and optimizing both the mechanical and control systems concurrently. Simcenter gives you the ability to co-simulate mechanical designs coupled with control systems to verify whether the control system design is robust enough to control the dynamic mechanism, and help eliminate costly changes later in development.

When designing new assemblies, you need to consider the package space the assembly operates in and whether components will interfere with surrounding geometry. Simcenter can help you solve these this problem by providing a true multibody dynamic solver that can compute the displacement and position of assembly components connected to springs, bushings, and flexible bodies. By using your geometry directly, you can determine whether you need to make design changes to avoid interference issues.