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New role: Additive Manufacturing Analysis Engineer
Realistic simulation of the additive manufacturing process enables companies to optimize part designs and process parameters for additive manufacturing
Population targeted
Structural Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Key activities and associated values
- Increase dimensional accuracy of parts designed for additive manufacturing
- Minimize print time and material usage
- Eliminate unnecessary and costly physical test prints
- Reduce product development time with seamless integration between design, simulation and manufacturing
New role: Composite Structures Analysis Engineer
Perform detailed simulation of composite structures for stiffness, strength, manufacturability, and damage tolerance, while optimizing weight and performance
Population targeted
Structural Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Key Activities and associated Values
- Provide detailed structural validation from coupon level to sub-system level for metal and composite structures
- Minimize weight to meet vehicle range and performance targets
- Increase certification confidence in early and detailed design phases
- Perform detailed material and nonlinear analyses, as well as linear statics, frequency, buckling, linear dynamics, and implicit/explicit simulation
- Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests
New role: Composite Structures Performance Engineer
Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing
Population targeted
Structural Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Key Activities and associated Values
- Validate composite design with associated strength criteria
- Efficiently design ply layup and material orientation to achieve required stiffness and strength while optimizing weight
- Model composite components with fundamental static, frequency, and buckling simulation
- Reduce cost of prototyping and manufacturing via early-phase design simulation to reduce time for composite product delivery
New role: Product and Packaging Analysis Engineer
Performing detailed simulations on different product and packaging designs to accelerate performance-cost trade off and reduce time to market
Key activities and associated values
- Simulate how a new package design will behave at every stage of its lifecycle, lowering costs
- Ensure the package delivers the desired consumer experience and drive consumer to place the product in their shopping basket
- Reduce development lead-time cost and improve quality and reliability
- Detect and resolve problems early in the design process
- Capture and share simulation IP for fast collaborative decisions
New role: Simulation Model Build Engineer
Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling, to reduce non-value added tasks, and build solver ready finite element models timely and efficiently
Key Activities and associated Values
- Provide structures modelling and assembly for T&M, A&D, and other strategic Industry process experiences
- Fully automate mid-surface extraction, mesh generation, and mesh re-generation
- Manage subassemblies and utilize automated assembly connections modeling
- Generate abstraction shapes for simulation associated to original design geometry
- Perform collaborative model management for building and sharing models particularly suited for large assemblies
New role: Structural Analysis Engineer
Enables comprehensive structural simulations covering statics, dynamics, vibration, thermal, and fatigue across a broad range of industrial applications
Key Activities and associated Values
- Structural Analysis Engineer is a comprehensive role to perform structural integrity assessment of any type of product, providing:
- Multiple structural analyses, including static or quasi static, frequency, buckling, mode-based steady-state or transient dynamic, random response, and non-linear dynamic
- Thermal analyses or sequential thermal-stress analyses (both transient or steady state)
- Advanced capability from meshing, with possible automated creation, scenario definition (up to thousands of loadcases), execution, results visualization, and report generation.
- Fatigue simulation that can predict accurate fatigue lives to ensure complex engineering products are designed for durability, and extend ordinary stress analysis to provide estimates of the lifecycle for components subjected to cyclic loads.
New role: Structural Performance Engineer
Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions
Population targeted
Structural Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Key Activities and associated Values
- Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design process
- Experience efficient “what if” scenarios through seamless associativity/integration with geometry
- Use a unique engineering workflow with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
- Work with multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
- Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies
- Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
- Include local compute up to 4 cores
| Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear simulations | Accelerate structural performance simulation for informed technical decisions |
Offers a unique engineering workflow with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface | Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive results investigation tools needed to assess efficiently product behavior during the design process |
New role: Simulation Process Engineer
Improve productivity and reduce time-consuming manual tasks by building and deploying automated simulation processes for all users in the organization.
Key Activities and associated Values
- The Simulation Process Engineer role leverages simulation methods and provides access to key simulation tools and processes in multiple ways, including:
- Efficient Drag & Drop simulation process authoring. Capture once, execute many times to increase engineering productivity
- Unique integration with native 3DEXPERIENCE geometry and parameters to deliver seamless connection with design data and zero translation
- Tight coupling with native 3DXPERIENCE SIMULIA solvers to give straightforward access to robust simulation technology
- Democratization of simulation methods through custom web interfaces tuned for non-experts throughout an organization
- The ability to trace and understand the origin and pedigree of data used in simulation studies to increase certification confidence.
New role: Thermal Engineer
Achieve desired thermal performance and avoid failures due to overheating. Improve safety and reduce warranty related costs
Key Activities and associated Values
- Efficiently simulate fluid flow and thermal performance of design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
- Explore and identify optimal cooling strategies (passive, active) to address smaller form factors that drive increased heat density
- Identify optimal sizing and placement of components (fans, vents, heat sinks) within packaging constraints
- Use accurate and validated results to ensure the product fulfills required electronic certification standards
New role: M&O - Steel Structures Engineer for Marine & Offshore
Engineer and validate the steel structure design, from preliminary to detail, to minimize costs and engineering time, while reducing weight
Key activities and associated values
- Support full parametric design with various construction elements
- Perform early estimation of preliminary design for manufacturing planning in advance
- Experience robust and flexible detail design piece parts generation from basic design
- Perform productive design without errors and rework
- Support tight and seamless integration with manufacturing
- Generate various classification drawings and production drawings with symbolic and mechanical representations
- Efficiently develop and validate alternate design scenarios while complying with customer requirements
New role: A&D - Aerospace Cabin Thermal Engineer
Develop environmental control systems and energy-efficient cabin designs that ensure superior thermal comfort and improve the overall passenger experience
Key Activities and associated Values
- Quickly evaluate the performance of environmental control systems in terms of cabin temperature, humidity, air quality control, and pressurization
- Ensure a comfortable microclimate within the cabin while optimizing the seating configurations
- Support the architectural design of HVAC layouts working with HVAC engineers
- Offer a broad range of innovative cabin customizations for airline companies
- Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests
New role: A&D - Aerospace HVAC and ECS Engineer
Quickly develop designs for HVAC and ECS systems that minimize energy consumption, optimize air flow and duct layout, and maximize occupant thermal comfort
Key Activities and associated Values
- Deliver innovative and safe ECS and HVAC systems that provide the required air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization
- Decrease the amount of expensive physical testing and the number of design iterations by performing detailed simulation of ECS and HVAC systems
- Reduce development costs and time to market
New role: IE - Tire Analysis Engineer
Accelerate tire innovation with fast predictions of key tire performances
Key Activities and associated Values
- Predict key tire performances in the early stage of design
- Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests through proven predictive virtual tests
- Avoid software development costs by taking advantage of tire-specific integrated CAD-CAE solutions
- Explore design space and select the best tire lay-up
- Democratize simulations with simulation templates
Process Composer apps
New Process Composer apps
Automation Process Composer app (in new SPF & AHEEA roles)
Enables you to create & edit automated Simulation Processes that do not include design exploration driver adapters.
Optimization Process Composer (in enhanced MDO role)
Enables you to create & edit automated Simulation Processes that may include design exploration driver adapters
- Design optimization adapters allow you to vary a set of design variables to drive output parameters in a desired direction using the DOE adapter, Monte Carlo adapter, or the Optimization adapter. Optimization Process Composer includes the design optimization adapters, in addition to all of the functionality of Automation Process Composer.
Enhanced Action Bar reorganization
The tabs in the action bar have been renamed with more explanatory titles, as shown here. The categorization of process components and commands has been improved. The table of contents in the user guide has been updated to align more closely with the action bar organization.
Enhanced app: Physics Results Explorer
New Results Comparison Across Analysis Cases and Simulation Objects
- Compare multiple field and X-Y plots from the same analysis case or different analysis cases in an intuitive configurable comparison preview pane.
- Results comparison tasks become easier as you can display more than one view or more than one plot at a time.
Enhanced Feature Manager
Redesigned to ensure consistency between results and the model and scenario workbenches.The following changes simplify the interface and allow easier interpretation of data:
- Filter capability: For model and scenario features, you can filter the list of features by Name orDefinition and save the filter preferences for additional searches.
- Data display view: For scenario features, you can now use Set list view to list the features inalphabetical order or the new Tree list view to group similar feature types into collapsible nodes.
- Tabbed interface: For results features, the Feature Manager now uses labeled tabs to consolidate related results features. For example, rather than having six separate panels for different sensortypes, all sensor types are now displayed in a single Sensors tab. Tabs display only when thefeature is present in the simulation.
Enhanced app: Linear Structural Validation part of the Structural Designer role
New Results Comparison Across Analysis Cases and Simulation Objects
- Compare multiple field and X-Y plots from the same analysis case or different analysis cases in an intuitive configurable comparison preview pane.
- Results comparison tasks become easier as you can display more than one view or more than one plot at a time.
