CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 October 2007
CIMdata News
A CIMdata Program Review of Comet's Early Simulation Solution
CIMdata consulting and research firm announces the publication of a program review of Comet's Early Simulation Solution. The paper discusses the critical role that product performance simulation plays in developing innovative products, emphasizing the importance of Early Simulations. In this context, the paper examines Comet's Early Simulation program and solution, and how it fits within an enterprises' PLM, CAE, and CAD environments. The paper is available for download from the CIMdata website .
John MacKrell, CIMdata Senior Consultant explained that as a key component of an enterprise's overall PLM strategy, the area of simulation and analysis has been mostly ignored for many years. He noted, "Generally, simulation and analysis have been treated as a technical black box that is not well integrated into product development processes."
Mr. MacKrell further explained that a consolidated approach to simulation and analysis "offers an opportunity to significantly streamline the overall product development process." Today, new Early Simulation approaches are available that integrate simulation activities into the enterprise, allow simulation to occur much earlier in product development, and enable knowledge capture and reuse. Mr. MacKrell observed that "forward-thinking firms are incorporating Early Simulation in order to create more collaborative, efficient, and innovative product development environments so that they can prosper in world markets."
Comet's approach to Early Simulation is to provide a solution that can coexist within an organization's current PLM, CAE and CAD environments. Through this strategy, the use of Comet is not disruptive to the existing environment and complements any pre-existing infrastructure. "Given this, a key element of this strategy is that Comet does not provide the actual CAE solver tools, Rather, they provide a framework under which data can be prepared, analyzed, post-processed, and evaluated in a standard way while using a company's preferred analysis tool set," said Mr. MacKrell.
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