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DISCOVER SIMULIA

Powered by the 3DEXPERIENCE® Platform, SIMULIA delivers realistic simulation applications that enable users to reveal the world we live in.

SIMULIA applications accelerate the process of evaluating the performance, reliability and safety of materials and products before committing to physical prototypes.

DISCIPLINES

APPLICATION ENGINEERING

SIMULATION VALUE FOR PRODUCT ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS WHO NEED APPLICATION-FOCUSED SOLUTIONS

Application Engineering provides roles for users by industry application and for designers and engineers to utilize simulation throughout their daily product design activities. Simulation technology covers structures, fluids, plastic injection molding, acoustics, and structural applications. The right capability is delivered in an application context with guided access for occasional users to allow simulation to drive design and power innovation within product teams.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Access the value of simulation On Premise or On Cloud in a user experience that provides just what you need and speaks your language
 • Simulate using the design geometry itself within a designer environment fully integrated with PLM and CAD
 • As simulation tasks and attributes are linked to the design, simulation updates are easy to execute when the underlying design changes
 • Enjoy immediate access to computation with embedded licenses in Roles for Designers and Engineers
 • Complete plastic injection molding solution integrated with CATIA

MULTIPHYSICS-MULTISCALE

COMPLETE STATE-OF-THE-ART PHYSICS SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATED & MANAGED ON THE 3DEXPERIENCE PLATFORM

Delivers powerful simulation of structures, fluids, multibody, and electromagnetics scenarios including complex assemblies directly linked with the product data. Modeling, simulation, and visualization technology are fully integrated on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, including process capture, publication, and re-use. The value of the customer’s existing investment in simulation horsepower is maximized by allowing simulation data, results, and IP to connect to the platform and become true corporate assets that powers innovation for all users.

KEY BENEFITS
 • State-of-the-art Multiphysics simulation capability delivering structures, fluids, acoustics, electromagnetics, and multibody simulation within a fully integrated environment supporting end-to-end industry processes, including optimization.
 • Assemble complex models collaboratively with colleagues around the world.
 • Best-in-class high-performance visualization powers interpretation and communication of results without download of large results files.
 • Rule-based batch modeling, meshing, and interconnections accelerates the efficiency of modeling and reduces re-work.

SIMULATION DATA SCIENCE

ANALYTICS, ACCESS TO SIMULATION VALUE, AND RE-USE OF BEST-PRACTICES TO SUPPORT BETTER DECISIONS

All platform users can benefit from the value of simulation by utilizing the capabilities in the Simulation Data Science discipline taking Simulation Process & Data Management (SPDM) to the next level. Powerful results analytics allows users to use simulation results to inform decision making. Democratization of simulation results and re-use of simulation methods is enabled through dashboard access to a company’s library of published methods and best-practices. With Simulation Analytics, simulation knowledge and its value becomes available for all platform users.

KEY BENEFITS
 • Capture and share methods with others and publish your best-practices to democratize and communicate your work.
 • Access your corporate library of simulation best-practices and standards.
 • Explore and understand the entire design space using modern simulation results analytics to process large data sets.
 • Base decision-making on realistic simulation.

CUSTOMER STORIES

DT Hiload
Realistic simulation with Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE application, enables DT HiLoad to ensure optimum tray performance for each custom application

The Challenge
Leading dump truck tray manufacturer DT HiLoad needed to design custom trays that would provide continuous transition of stiffness (flexibility) throughout the tray and endure under varying loads and strains.

Dassault Systèmes Response
Realistic simulation with Abaqus FEA from SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE application, enables DT HiLoad to ensure optimum tray performance for each custom application.

Benefits
Using Abaqus has enabled DT HiLoad to reduce truck tray weight 50 percent, cutting fuel costs while lowering fatigue and loads on the tray and, most importantly, increasing the payload the trucks can carry.

BAT Poland
British American Tobacco (BAT) is a global tobacco company with more than 200 brands sold in over 200 markets. BAT operates in 44 factories in 41 countries and employs more than 57,000 people worldwide. BAT Poland was selected as the strategic production hub for all of Europe, consolidating operations from numerous other countries. The number of SKUs produced would increase from 20 to 200 and then to 1,000.

The Challenge
BAT Poland had been using a mixed system for managing operations, including SAP, Kanban and a lot of paper-based and manual tracking. They needed an IT solution to handle the increase in production complexity and internal logistics of material they were about to face.

Dassault Systèmes Response
BAT Poland chose a total warehouse system from Dassault Systèmes. The flexibility of the solution enabled the automation of all materials movement and internal logistics.

Benefits
Successful consolidation of production – moving from 20 to 200 SKUs in short-term
Elimination of manual and paper-based work
Automated warehouse and manufacturing operations for full traceability of finished goods

West Virginia University
Plugging Design Gaps with Simulation West Virginia University uses SIMULIA Solutions to help analyze the design and operation of huge, inflatable tunnel plugs.

The Challenge
West Virginia University (WVU) was asked by U.S. Homeland Security to explore the development of huge inflatable plugs for use in emergency situations requiring the closing of vehicular tunnels or other large cylindrical structures. Refining prototypes in a test facility was complex and time-intensive.

Dassault Systèmes Response
WVU employed Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and CAE solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA to create realistic simulations of inflatable plug components and models of global plug behavior inside full-size tunnels.

Benefits
SIMULIA solutions provided predictive models that closely matched actual deployment of inflatables as seen in large-scale testing. The accuracy of these tools gives the University the confidence to reduce the amount of large-scale testing needed to refine their designs and allows them to further develop their inflatable solutions and consider applying their methodology to other infrastructure systems.

BMW Group
Moving toward Zero-Prototyping for Automotive Passive Safety

The Challenge
Automakers today face unprecedented pressures to meet and exceed ever-changing crashworthiness standards while responding to consumer demands, higher gas mileage requirements and complex, new materials. How they respond to these challenges directly impacts their bottom line.

Dassault Systèmes Response
Working closely with SIMULIA over almost a decade, BMW Group’s R&D team developed a simulation program, based on Abaqus FEA, that moved them towards a stated corporate goal of zero-prototyping for passive safety.

Benefits
Such a simulation-driven strategy yields significant savings in both costs and product development time. The engineering team now has a comprehensive view of component and full-car behavior during crash scenarios and confidence in the accuracy of their simulations. The launch of the BMW 6 Series Gran Coupé marks the first car platform for which zero-prototyping was accomplished for passive safety.

Yamaha Motor Company
Simulation Helps Yamaha Keep Off-Road Motorcycles Running Cool

The Challenge
Yamaha Motor Company wanted to improve performance of its off-road motorcycle radiator assemblies and was looking for a way to reduce time-consuming real-world testing.

Dassault Systèmes Response
Abaqus FEA from Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA provided accurate, realistic simulations of the simulations of the mechanism of motorcycle of motorcycle tip-overs on the deformation of the components.

Benefits
Yamaha is now confident that its radiator assembly strength simulations accurately predict physical test results, has identified the optimum locations for countermeasures, and can use its highly reliable simulation tools for developing new, more effective designs.