How Simulation Drives Innovation and Efficiency in Product Design

Whatever industry you work in, producing the best products means mastering a range of design engineering domains. Ultimately, your company will need to unite these disciplines toward optimizing performance attributes against cost and product lifetime to deliver the best overall user experience. Every step in the development process is targeted toward answering the questions:

• Will this product work as intended?
• How long will it last?
• What will our customers think about it?

You will typically distill that down to a series of analyses that systematically reveal the best answers to each question in your area of focus, and then merge it with those answers obtained from your colleagues to get a complete picture.

How to Stay at the Top of Your Game

We get it. We’ve heard your concerns and are evolving to better meet your needs in today’s world to help you deliver tomorrow’s best products. At SIMULIA, we also have experts in our silos of knowledge, but we too must broaden our scope and increase our levels of integration to deliver the synergies you need to meet your goals.

We know it’s no longer sufficient to simply mesh a product model, deliver stress and deformation plots and then move on to another project. You are expected to do more, to take the next step and to extrapolate what you have learned to predict durability and lifespan or estimate the operating range for a given design or family of designs or even suggest alternate designs that will perform better or more reliably. Today, you need to provide more complete answers—and do it even sooner than ever before. And those who grow their skill sets to deliver these results will advance faster and grow the use of simulation in their organizations.

Access the Tools You Need

With these increasing demands, we see great opportunities for our customers. We have always been committed to providing technology to solve your toughest problems. You’ve noticed that we have been accumulating exceptional technology and knowledge from companies that were previously partners, but now as part of SIMULIA can help share their experience to improve your productivity. We are now busy assembling them into the most useful toolkit possible to address the “pain points” that affect performance, production and profitability.

Our software portfolio of leading products has indeed grown, now including Abaqus, Isight, Tosca, fe-safe, Simpoe-Mold and Simpack. Over time, these will all be available in an integrated environment on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. But your challenges are today … so to help you begin to realize the potential of this portfolio of products, we have introduced a flexible way to gain access to many of them with a single license, what we call “Extended Tokens.” When you choose this licensing scheme, a single-token pool gives you full access to our core simulation group of product families: Abaqus, Isight, Tosca and fe-safe.

What ‘Power of the Portfolio’ Really Means for SIMULIA Customers

Using Extended Tokens, you no longer need to decide up front which of these technologies you will need and for how long. (For example, if you are using Abaqus 6.14, you also have access to Isight 5.9, Tosca Structure 8.1, Tosca Fluid 2.4, and fe-safe 6.5 for as much as your token pool will allow. Please see page 4 of this issue for details about the most recent releases of all these portfolio products.) This will allow you to use products you may be unfamiliar with and determine for yourself when and where they can help you. No need to go back and request software you didn’t know you needed originally. You can explore the tools that can help you work more efficiently, solve new problems while broadening your skill set and increase your value within the company.