A new MODSIM Customer Success Story for Helix is now available online. This includes a written case study and video.
Electric powertrain developer Helix has broken records and won awards for its high-performance electric motors and inverters. As the UK Company secures its leadership as an electric power specialist in the automotive, motorsport, aerospace and marine sectors, it needed a robust solution to streamline its development processes. Helix used the 3DEXPERIENCE platform with ENOVIA, CATIA and SIMULIA to bring its innovative power products to life.
Helix delivers everything from off-the-shelf electric motors and inverters to tailored engineering and technology packages like the ones used by Triumph, the NIO 333 Formula-E team and Lotus for its all-electric Lotus Evija hypercar. Operating at the cutting edge of the industry, the company continuously refines its own processes and systems to meet its customers’ specific requirements for configurable products while continuously bringing down associated development costs. It’s one of the main reasons that Helix has switched to a centralized collaborative, model-based, multidisciplinary environment for product lifecycle management (PLM) – the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.Unified modeling and simulation (MODSIM) is becoming an increasingly essential part of Helix’s workflow. Bringing simulation into the design process earlier on supports Helix’s right-first-time principle and allows its engineers to get a better understanding of the product they’re working on.
Alex Morley, Principal Analysis Engineer at Helix, values the ability to carry out multi-step and multi-physics simulations in SIMULIA for testing complex load cases on parts and assemblies.
“With multi-step simulations, we can jump from a static load to a dynamic load, or we can simulate electrical thermal and structural loads at the same time or in the same set of analysis,” Morley said. “We can test several different designs, understand what loads they can survive, how they’ll perform and then we can go on and select the best designs.”
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