Across all industries there is a change driving companies to increase the utilization of simulation in their product development processes. Cost and time pressures are leading companies to significantly reduce, or in some cases eliminate physical testing. To compensate for the loss of information that testing has provided over the years organizations are turning to simulation to fill the gap in delivering critical design insight. This means that the number of simulation studies must increase dramatically while the resources available to perform these studies do not increase proportionally. The result is that old, traditional processes of post-processing and reporting simulation results must be replaced with new, innovative approaches and technologies.
Abaqus/fesafe/CST have been and continue to be critical resources for companies in their simulation strategy. And now new technologies are available to increase the impact these ABAQUS/fe-safe/CST results can provide in this new environment of increased simulation studies. These increases are accomplished by accelerating the understanding, sharing, and collaborating around CAE results. This presentation will detail the specific capabilities within VCollab that both streamline, and in some cases eliminate, the traditional tasks that analysts face in the post-processing, evaluation, reporting and sharing of Abaqus/fe-safe/CST results. The areas of focus include:
- Full 3D, WEB-based, interactive access, viewing & reviewing of key simulation results & insights, allowing analysts, engineers, chief engineers, and requirements engineers to review, discuss, and gain insight for faster design decisions.
- Smart tools to extract highly reduced results files that maintain the key simulation data without the large file sizes associated with the native CAE results leading to increased collaboration and sharing. And creating a common file format for these compact files unites simulation information across multi-physics domains.
- Smart tools to quickly extract valuable insights from Abaqus/fe-safe/CST results (such as hotspots or potential areas of concern) and provide advanced visual (dynamic, 3D, and real-time) communication with all stakeholders.
Together, these capabilities enable users to fully experience the benefits of simulation by allowing them to quickly understand and analyze Abaqus/fe-safe/CST data, as well as make faster and more informed design decisions with the highest confidence and quality. This will pave the way for effective communication and collaboration among the engineering teams. This also allows for increased productivity, along with maximizing both the effectiveness of existing CAE resources, and the utilization of simulation results.
These new class of tools and technologies from VCollab are at the heart of digital transformation of the process of simulation. These VCollab tools & features seamlessly work with the Abaqus/fe-safe and CST files, enabling smart WEB-based simulation results viewing and review solution. In conjunction with Abaqus/fe-safe and CST, we will outline how these capabilities can assist product development teams in moving from analysis results to high-quality design decisions by reducing the time of some simulation processes by as much as 90% leading to increased speed, efficiency, and accuracy in simulation-led decision making.
