Skip over secondary navigation

Secondary navigation

Skip over Content

Content

Electromechanical Simulation

This section requires Adobe Flash Player 8.0 or higher

Product Development Challenges

Camera  View Demo

Companies in the business of developing high-tech electromechanical systems face some unique business challenges. The pressure to shorten time-to-market is among the highest of all industries and profit margins are slim due to the presence of low cost competitors. Successful companies rely on simulation to arrive at a good design and to minimize time spent in redesign, verification and testing.

However, for many companies, simulation has become a process bottleneck and has not delivered the anticipated efficiency and productivity gains. Complex, stand-alone CAE tools are often viewed as the domain of specialists, thus limiting wider adoption. Companies utilize multiple design and simulation systems leading to numerous, error-prone data transformations. Finally, simulation environments have been disconnected from the rest of the product lifecycle including requirements, engineering workflows and manufacturing.

Making simulation pervasive throughout the product lifecycle

Siemens PLM Software’s NX Digital Lifecycle Simulation solutions enable companies to overcome these hurdles and leverage simulation throughout the product lifecycle. NX is a comprehensive design and simulation environment that includes solutions for all the major causes of failure in electromechanical design, namely temperature, vibration, humidity and dust.

An open system that works with data from leading ECAD, MCAD and CAE tools, NX also directly supports external solver applications including Ansys and Abaqus. Tight integration with Teamcenter provides a managed, knowledge-driven environment and a common data pipeline that links simulation with engineering requirements and change management procedures.

Key Capabilities and Benefits

Solution Capabilities

  • Stress, vibration, motion, dynamic response, flow and thermal analysis
  • Dedicated multi-physics solutions for electronics and space systems
  • Best-in-class tools for model preparation with multi-CAD support
  • Links to ECAD and control system software
  • PLM integration with advanced simulation structure management

Solution Benefits

  • Shorten development cycles with faster turnaround on simulations
  • Accelerate innovation and deliver new insights on product performance
  • Reduce prototypes and lower development cost
  • Reduce warranty exposure by identifying and eliminating problems earlier
  • Increase confidence and eliminate errors with tight PLM integration

Context