SOLIDWORKS Simulation--Use a comprehensive test tool for virtual simulation to make your product even better

1.SolidWorks Simulationsolution

The SOLIDWORKS ? Simulation solution allows every product engineer to evaluate performance at the same time as the design to help answer the question "Do I have the best design?". SOLIDWORKS Simulation is designed specifically for functionality and ease of use, and will quickly become an integral part of the design process.

At the beginning of the design, you can simulate the real environment and the actual product conditions to optimize performance while designing. You will be able to drive product innovation through meaningful technical insight into product behavior and quality, reduce the number of prototypes, shorten the development cycle and reduce test costs.

SOLIDWORKS Simulation solution allows you to

• ?In a visual and powerful interface virtual simulation of a variety of physical environment

• ?Perform various structural simulations such as linear and non-linear static, vibration, fatigue, heat, optimization and nonlinear dynamic simulation

• ?Perform rigid-based time-based simulation and event-based simulation

• ?Compare the performance of products made with different materials

• ?Enhance the design of products affected by liquids or gases by fluid simulation and heat transfer simulation (CFD analysis)

• ?In the plastic parts and injection mold design early identification and to avoid manufacturing defects

• ?Perform environmental impact simulations on the product

Here are some examples of SOLIDWORKS Simulation features described by SOLIDWORKS customers.

IDEX Health ? & ScienceHIOKI E.E. Corporation

Teknion Corporation SE Corp

POLYRACK Tech-Group

Simulate real conditions directly on your screen

SOLIDWORKS Simulation enables product engineers to virtually rebuild possible conditions in the product lifecycle and help identify ways to make products more powerful. You can accurately predict how parts interact with each other, how repetitive loads affect fatigue performance, and how the design can be maintained in the drop test. These tools are used as a standard part of your design process to help you create products faster and more cost-effectively.

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Enables product engineers to run a comprehensive analysis

IDEX ? Health & Science manufactures precision microfluidic system components, including valves, pumps, manifolds, fittings, injectors and tubing systems that support precision laboratory equipment such as liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and DNA Analysis system. To achieve a breakthrough in microfluidics to win in a highly competitive laboratory market, the company's engineers need to integrate design and simulation tools.

"IDEX unifies SOLIDWORKS because it is not only easy to use, but also provides powerful structural and fluid simulation tools," explains Kevin Longley, a mechanical design engineer. "This allows us to innovate more accurate designs while simplifying our development process "

With the increasing complexity of the design, engineers chose to use SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation. The instrument needs to be used to push a very small volume, such as 0.1 microliters, at a very high pressure, thereby increasing the output and making the instrument manufacturer more economical when purchasing equipment. "Our valves bear the force to push them away, so we need to perform finite element analysis (FEA) at every step of the project." Longley concludes.

Application effect:

• ?Design cycle is shortened

• ?Prototype manufacturing to a minimum

• ?Cutting time is shortened

• ?Hydraulic function upgrade

"SOLIDWORKS Simulation as part of the design process allows us to minimize the number of prototype manufacturing cycles we need in the past."

Kevin Longley

Mechanical Design Engineer

IDEX Health & Science

SOLIDWORKS FLOW SIMULATION

3. Reducing the number of prototypes

POLYRACK Tech-Group is a leading provider of integrated packaging solutions for the electronics industry, offering a range of products and services including chassis, box, mini-computer packaging systems (MPS), industrial PC applications and backplanes. POLYRACK adds fluid flow analysis to meet customer demand for flow simulation consulting, saving time and reducing prototype manufacturing costs.

"When customers asked us to perform fluid simulations on packaging designs, we realized that these features will continue to be an increasingly important part of our business," said Bernd Knab, director of development at the development department. "The visualization of the behavior within the structure We can save time, reduce costs and improve performance. "

By using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, POLYRACK determines the optimal location and number of fans in the rack system. It allows them to simulate the heat transfer phenomenon and understand the impact of subtle changes in package design on the performance of the cooling system.

"With SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, we can develop a solution that can disperse the airflow and distribute the air evenly throughout the system." Knab said, "This is what makes us very excited because if there is no SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, we may not even have the opportunity to try. "

Application effect:

• ?Will reduce the development time from three months to two weeks

• ?Cut two prototype manufacturing cycles

• ?Created a new fluid simulation consulting business

• ?Invented a new electronic cooling system design method

"In addition to optimizing the cooling system, SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation also helped us to reduce the average of two prototypes in each project."

Bernd Knab

Head of development department

POLYRACK Tech – Group

Spend less time making the prototype, spend more time to innovate

The ability to virtualize your model at the early stages of the development process can lead to more impressive and more successful final products. Since SOLIDWORKS Simulation and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation allow you to innovate and verify your design as you wish, you do not have to waste time or money to build prototypes that may not work. This means that you can test more ideas and shorten time to market, so that your product and your company in the process of different.

Enhance the design of liquid flow or gas flow effect

SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation allows you to quickly decide how to react to fluid flow and how liquids, gases, heat and steam can move in pipes and nozzles. For engines and motors, the software will reveal how the fluid will react internally and externally. Based on these tests, as well as pressure and thermodynamic simulations, you will be able to use the parallel CFD method to enhance the design.

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Accurately predict the behavior of liquid or gas flow

SE Corp. specializes in providing high-end analytical consulting services to well-known customers who need reliable, cost-effective engineering tools. An SAIC project involved an analysis at the NASA Kennedy Space Center's Spacecraft Assembly Building (VAB) to assess facility safety and emergency escape procedures for rocket fuel ignition incidents to determine whether the VAB building could support future project use The

Founder Sean Stapf chose SOLIDWORKS Simulation because it has CAD integration, a full set of rich features and quick solvers. "SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium and SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation software provide the structural, thermal and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis tools I need to help predict which locations and when these deadly emissions will exist." Stapf said.

By using SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, Stapf is able to quantify the time and severity of buildings and personnel exposed to high temperature exhaust gas exhaust temperatures, velocities, pressures and concentrations resulting from ignition and subsequent eruption. "Although the model and grid are very large, there are about 200,000 units, but I can speed up the solution time," Stapf said.

Application effect:

• ?The NASA VAB CFD simulation was completed within 24 hours

• ?The use of intelligent units shortens the solution time

• ?The resulting results helped NASA improve the security plan

• ?Won the NASA awarded Space Flight Awareness Team Award (Space Flight Awareness Team Award)

"With SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, I can generate a grid-independent solution that can report multiple flow gradients in detail with a high fidelity in just one day."

Sean Stapf

Founder

SE Corp.

5. SOLIDWORKS SUSTAINABILITY

Perform real-time environmental assessment as part of the design process

Teknion Corporation is the world's leading designer and manufacturer of office systems and related furniture products. Over the past decade, sustainability has become one of the components of Teknion's business. Teknion used SOLIDWORKS

Sustainability software to provide its designers with environmental impact information that can be used to guide design decisions. Teknion's designers can estimate the carbon burden associated with a particular design, energy consumption, gas emissions, and liquid emissions, and then use this information to consider which design options are more environmentally sustainable.

"Sustainable design does not always have to make" the most environmentally friendly "choices, but rather use environmental assessment information to make choices and assess the balance." Product engineering manager Claudio Perfetti said, "Sustainable design is a contrasting wood and composite surface The use of pellets, steel or aluminum, or the impact of changes in the carbon footprint of different products.

With SOLIDWORKS Sustainability, Teknion can provide a horizontal comparison of material selection, so customers can consider the environmental impact of selecting materials for furniture parts. The ability to provide these technical insights in advance as part of the sales process helps to make Teknion gain a competitive advantage.

Application effect:

• ?The number of product lines increased fourfold

• ?Reduced development time by 50%

• ?The demand for prototype manufacturing is reduced by half

• ?Support sales, collaboration and sustainable design initiatives

"As 3D enhances design visualization, SOLIDWORKS Sustainability provides in-depth technical insight into the design."

Claudio Perfetti

Product engineering manager

Teknion Corporation

Evaluate the environmental impact of product design

SOLIDWORKS Sustainability can help you quickly assess the environmental impact of product design, reduce the use of materials and energy, and use sustainable design to save time and money. Compared to your competitors, you can get important strategic advantages by quickly capturing and taking action on your environmental impact. Flexible analysis inputs such as reclaim content levels and scrapping schemes allow for more detailed evaluation.

Improve quality, eliminate costly rework and shorten time to market

SOLIDWORKS Plastics offers an easy-to-use injection molding simulation function for designers of plastic parts and injection molds directly. It simulates the flow of molten plastics during injection molding to help predict manufacturing-related defects in parts and molds. You can quickly evaluate the manufacturability of the design in the design process, eliminate costly rework, improve part quality, and shorten time-to-market.

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Identify and avoid manufacturing defects in the early stages of design

Over the past 75 years, HIOKI E.E. Corporation has been a leader in the electrical measurement industry and manufactures a range of automated test equipment, storage recorders, electrical measuring instruments and field measurement equipment. To support its QCDS (Quality, Cost, Delivery and Service) promotion program, HIOKI replaces its 2D design tool with 3D technology.

"We let each designer and engineer use 3D CAD in order to believe that it will help them to more accurately and efficiently communicate design intent, and ultimately improve the design quality, shorten the order time and faster to provide customers with superior products, "SOLIDWORKS gives us the ability to achieve these goals," said Hiroshi Mizuide, HIOKI Engineering Development Assistant Manager.

Although some of the lower development costs of HIOKI are associated with time savings, most of the cost reduction comes from the manufacturer's use of SOLIDWORKS solutions to shorten the prototype cycle by 30 percent. MITUide said that by using the design analysis in SOLIDWORKS Simulation and the plastic injection simulation in SOLIDWORKS Plastics, HIOKI designers and engineers can verify design performance and simplify the interaction with mold manufacturers while requiring fewer prototypes.

"SOLIDWORKS Plastics software allows our engineers to simulate the way in which molds are filled with resin, which improves the problem of communication with the moldmaker and reduces the number of errors to be corrected," Mizuide said.

Application effect:

• ?Reduced design cycle by 30%

• ?Time to market is reduced by 30%

• ?Development costs cut 30%

• ?Prototype manufacturing cycle shortened by 30%

"SOLIDWORKS Plastics software allows our engineers to simulate the way in which molds are filled with resin, and the problem is reduced and the errors to be corrected are reduced."

Hiroshi Mizuide

Development assist manager

HIOKI E.E. Corporation