Invernizzi Presse
The Italian manufacturer Invernizzi Presse employed Marc and Patran to improve existing presses and to develop new custom-made presses. They also used MSC Software tools to illustrate the functional performance of the presses to their customers. The combination of Marc and Patran was used for various contact analysis, mechanical safety structure analysis, and load calculations. Invernizzi engineers could try more design variants in less time and gained more accurate results than by using traditional mathematical calculation methods. As a result, Invernizzi realized significant time savings, and, while optimizing material usage, saved production costs.
Draper Labs
Draper Laboratory used MSC.EASY5 to provide the graphical user interface (GUI) and infrastructure for a collaborative Virtual Product Development environment in the development of missile guidance systems. The open architecture of MSC.EASY5 improved the collaboration by providing a direct link to other popular simulation tools, such as MATLAB/Simulink. Using MSC.EASY5, Draper Labs reduced the high costs of testing very complex electromechanical systems by cutting simulation time from weeks to hours.
Automotive Systems Laboratory (ASL) - Vehicle Occupant Restraint Systems
In order to reduce the cost of testing their airbag restraint systems, ASL is using Virtual Product Development tools such as MSC Dytran. MSC Dytran offers the advantage of coupled Euler-Lagrange analysis, allowing combined structural and gaseous fluid simulation. Contact analysis is very important in simulating an airbag deployment, and MSC Dytran provides a number of options for defining contacts. For ASL, MSC Dytran has proven to be a robust tool that can be applied to the design optimization of vehicle occupant restraint systems for both crash and out-of-position scenarios, which are relevant to the restraint system designs of the future.
Autoliv - Side-curtain Airbag Simulation
Autoliv, the world's largest manufacturer of automotive safety equipment, has developed side-curtain airbag systems by using MSC Dytran to similate the dynamic events that occur during inflation, such as gas flow and enclosure impact stiffness. MSC Dytran provides Autoliv with an effective tool to study OOP (out-of-position) scenarios, enabling engineers to identify and quantify the impact of numerous design variables. The software provides real value in terms of reducing the time and overall development effort required, compared to conventional prototype build and test methods.
The Boeing Company
Boeing is responsible for design, development, construction, and integration of the International Space Station (ISS) - Integrated on-orbit from a series of segments transported up to the Station by the Shuttle. MSC.ADAMS was used for functional verification of the attachment interface mechanisms, which required a thorough representation of the contacting geometry. The MSC.ADAMS solid-to-solid contact force statement allowed simulation of the segment-to-segment attachment including various combinations of contact feature misalignment. The analysis reduced contact model development and helped Boeing minimize the possibility of introducing an error by providing stable, accurate solid-to-solide models.
Leyland Trucks - Simulation of complex mechanisms
Leyland Trucks Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of PACCAR Inc., has become the company's established center for light- and medium-size truck design, development, and manufacture, producing trucks from six to 44 tonnes for each of PACCAR's established international brands -- Kenworth, Peterbilt, DAF, and Foden.
BMW Group - High Performance Computing
FEM analysis has become more complex and accordingly, the size and detailing of FEM models is continuously growing. Especially in the automotive industry this trend is obvious and the reason the German car manufacturer BMW asks the question, "How long can FEM programs cope with this growth?" The objective of a benchmark under the motto "Model of the Day After Tomorrow" was to stress the hardware and software to the limits it will face during the upcoming decade. MSC Software and IBM have passed this test successfully. (Special reprint from CAD CAM Magazine 9-10/2008.)
Sogeti Group - Simulation Process and Data Management
SOGETI Group (member of the Cap Gemini Group), a leader in IT services and R&D outsourcing, offers professional services that focus on three key complementary business areas: IT Application Management, IT Infrastructure Services and High Tech Consulting. Sogety enables their clients to leverage global technological innovations, and achieve above average results from their IT programs. The company employs more than 18,000 people in over 200 lcoations in Europe, the US and India. Around one third of the High Tech Consulting division's 3,000 employees are dedicated to engineering research and development.
NovaComp Engineering
Founded in 1990, NovaComp Engineering, Inc., provides finite element analysis (FEA) as a service to a wide range of industries. By combining deep experience with state-of-the-art computing and analysis tools such as Marc, NovaComp helps engineers solve complex linear and nonlinear problems in the fields of heat transfer, stress analysis, structural dynamics, and fluid flow.
Moeller GmbH
Moeller GmbH, a major innovator in switchgear and safety solutions for a wide range of industries, used MSC.ADAMS for studies and calculations in new switchgear development, and to analyze improvements in existing products. Moeller engineers performed various tests on the same virtual model, inlcuding forces and load calculations, resulting in fewer physical prototypes and high-speed recordings. Thanks to MSC.ADAMS, Moeller reduced the development time of new and modified products and improved the quality of existing products.
Transmisiones y Equipos Mecánicos S.A. de C.V.
Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
Diagnostic Simulations, Inc.
Agency for Defense Development
The Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) is the single national agency in Korea for the research and development of national defense technology. ADD focuses on the development of highly advanced technologies for core weapons systems.
