CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
22 August 2007
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CIMdata in the News "CAE Moves to the Fore"
The article "CAE Moves to the Fore" in Design News, credits new hardware advances for enabling development teams to move highly specialized simulation and analysis work further upfront in the design process, while collaborating on and visualizing more complete models.
CIMdata's Ken Amann offers this insight on the topic:
"The price/performance curve has solved a lot of problems for us - we're now able to do things on a routine basis that in the past were specialty runs, required special programs and even days and weeks to execute," says Ken Amann, director of research at CIMdata Inc., a consultancy specializing in engineering and product development. "With the ability to bring significantly more computing power to bear, we can run larger, more complex applications . and bring things forward in the design process, particularly in the area of simulation."
Pushing simulation to the front of the design sequence has a multitude of benefits. For one thing, it takes time out of the equation by eliminating any lag period between when an engineer comes up with a design and when they get feedback on its viability from analysis experts who run the simulation models in isolation from any subsequent design changes, using their own software and systems. It also lets the designer test options as they go along, which identifies problems earlier in the process, not to mention, frees up the analysis experts to focus their talents and computing horsepower on large-scale simulation problems.
"Now designers can take a quick look to see if something will cause problems later on and adjust their design upfront before spending a lot of effort," Amann says. "That way, they catch problems faster and they can exercise more options."
To learn more please access CAE Moves to the Fore , (Design News, August 22, 2007) by Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor.
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