MSC Technology Track Presentations

Motion Solutions: This session will present industry leading solutions for system level analysis of assemblies. Recent advances in current solutions including Adams and Adams/Car will be discussed and demonstrated, along with new MD Adams and SimXpert Motion solutions that provide additional value. MSC experts will show real-world examples of the path forward to the future of motion simulation.

Structures Solutions: This session will showcase the world's most widely used finite element analysis solutions. Recent advances in Patran and MSC Nastran will be discussed and demonstrated using industry use cases, and new solutions based on MD Nastran and SimXpert Structures will be shown that will highlight the path forward to the future of structural analysis.

Nonlinear Solutions: This session will focus on the world's most reliable and robust solutions to nonlinear structural problems including Contact, Crash, Drop Tests, Metal Plasticity, Fluid-Structure interaction, and Elastomeric Analysis. Recent advances in Marc and Dytran will be discussed and demonstrated using industry use cases, and new solutions based on MD Nastran and SimXpert will be shown that add the benefits of template based automation and advanced preprocessing.

Coupled Analysis Solutions: This session will highlight complete multi-discipline analysis of real-world problems using MSC's new SimXpert and MD solutions. Using real use-cases from automotive, aerospace, and other industries, MSC experts will discuss and demonstrate why coupled analysis is required and what is required to provide reliable and realistic results. Our experts will also show how customers can complement their existing tools take the path forward to a future in coupled analysis.

Simulation Data Management: Simulation models, results, and data are typically scattered across individual engineers desktops and shared drives, making it difficult to find or reuse information when it is needed. Storing, protecting, and making this data accessible to those who need it, on-demand, is a recognized requirement to enable simulation to have maximum business impact. Simulation data management systems must enable early design validation, involve the global supply chain, and improve simulation speed and reliability while protecting sensitive information and intellectual property. This session compares various approaches to solving the simulation information problem and highlights important considerations in implementing a systematic approach to simulation data management.

Simulation Process Management & Automation: Eliminating physical prototypes and putting simulation on the critical path of product development can only happen when engineers and managers can be completely confident in their analysis results. While simulation technology is proven to be capable of providing realistic results, the methods and processes by which these results are created are tremendously inconsistent despite the existence of documented best practices. This session details how best practices and simulation processes can be captured in reusable templates, shared in global engineering environments, and audited over time to continuously improve confidence and reliability in simulation.

Integrating CAE in the Engineering Enterprise: Simulation information and processes must fit into the larger product development process in order to have maximum impact on the engineering business. This session, hosted by MSC, IBM, and ProStep, details how simulation is integrated with PDM, requirements management, systems engineering, and other enterprise systems. The role of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and other IT considerations will be discussed, including a live demonstration of SimManager integrated with WindChill PDM, using OpenPDM technology and leveraging IBM's Service Oriented Architecture.

Materials Data Management: Simulation results are only as good as the materials data that goes into the models that produce these results, but most companies today cannot easily assure themselves of the source or validity of materials data. Linking test engineers, laboratories, and materials databanks to simulation models and results is critical in making simulation reliable. This session showcases current and future solutions for capturing materials test data, processing it for use in simulation, making it available for use when it is required, and establishing a complete simulation audit trail. MSC experts will show real customer examples of materials data management and discuss the benefits achieved.

Applications of Simulation Chaining: Engineers are often forced to use multiple simulation solutions and compromise solution accuracy when simulating multiple events. This session highlights how the chained analysis approach facilitates multidisciplinary solution capabilities of the MD Solutions solvers.

Integrated Linear and Nonlinear Contact: Contact problems are one of the most common and challenging faced by engineers today. CAE analysts typically spend considerable time in the set up of these problems alone. This session showcases the ease of set up for contact problems in our MD Solutions and various features that assist users to solve even the most complex problems.

Durability of Composites: Composites are being widely used across all industries. However, failure and delamination of composites are areas of critical importance for a robust design. Multidisciplinary issues involving composites and their failure are presented in this session.

Noise and Vibration (N&V) and Acoustics: Noise and Vibration issues are of crucial nature for any designer, especially in automotive and aerospace industries. For accurate solutions, the model should account for the multidisciplinary nature of the problem. This session discusses how MD products from MSC.Software provide superior solutions for this class of problems.

SimOffice - Meeting the CAE Challenge: Small and medium sized businesses in the manufacturing sector are facing ever increasing pressure to deliver more to their customers. They're required to deliver more engineering content in their products while maintaining the slimmest of margins. Get an understanding of how MSCs SimOffice provides the best CAE platform solution that maximizes existing Microsoft based IT infrastructure and existing design engineering staffs to meet those challenges, now and into the future.

SimOffice - Real World: MSC's SimOffice is designed to meet the majority of the CAE requirements facing a small and medium sized business in manufacturing. Based on industry's most recognized and advanced simulation technology MD Nastran and the first Microsoft Vista certified CAE environment, SimOffice can get it done. See some real examples demonstrating how SimOffice is being used today.