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SOLID EDGE UNIVERSITY UK 2015

Design Without Boundaries#SEU15UK

Solid Edge University UK 2015

July 8th, Silverstone UTC

Simulation

Grant McLeod – Prion Cutting Edge

2014-05-13


Siemens PLM Software

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Agenda

• Who I am

• What you will learn

• Is Simulation for you?

• Common FEA Problems

• Questions

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Who I am

Grant McLeod

Senior Applications Engineer

Prion Cutting Edge

I have been with Prion Cutting Edge since 2011 and am responsible for all

CAE/FEA training, support and consultancy.

I have extensive knowledge of other CAD/CAE applications including; NX,

Ansys, Plysim, Maxsurf, Autodesk; Inventor, Mech. Desktop, 3ds and Aveva.

Before joining Prion Cutting Edge, I worked as a Design and Process Engineer

for a leading manufacturer of luxury watercraft, where I used CAE to improve

the design and manufacture of composite structures.

I have degrees in Marine Engineering and Composites Design and

Manufacture.

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Is Simulation for me?

Simulation has come a long way in the past few years. The toolset that we

have in Solid Edge ST8 enables us to undertake tasks in minutes that just

a few short years ago, would have taken days or even weeks to complete.

Full functionality FEA and CAE can now be run from our desktops, the

question for today is – Are YOU taking advantage of this?

What we will cover …..

• Simulation

• Is it for you?

• What can Simulation deliver to your business?

• I don’t look like this guy, can I do analysis?

• Why Solid Edge?

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Is Simulation for Me?

There is no need to

review our designs

because our

customers are happy

with what we do

We don’t need

Simulation, we pay an

external contractor to do

all our analysis

Our guys are good

engineers but they

have no experience

of analysis

‘Bob’ does all our

analysis in-house, there

isn’t a need for anyone

else to be involved

I can see the

advantage of

simulation to us but it

is just another cost to

the business

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We don’t need Simulation, we pay an external

contractor to do all our analysis

• What sort of data are you sending to your

contractor?

• Solid, Sheets, Beams. Is it clean and suitable

for analysis?

• Are you paying them handsomely to do menial

tasks which could be completed in-house?

• De-featuring models is one of the most time

consuming parts of FEA and is much easier in

CAD than Analysis packages.

• Are you getting work sent back which fails to

meet the design requirements?

• Finding out you missed the mark is expensive

and means time and cost to market is greatly

increased.

• Geometry Prep Demo

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There is no need to review our designs because our

customers are happy with what we do

• ‘96% of unhappy customers don’t complain,

however 91% of those will simply leave and

never come back’ – Financial Training services.

• Don’t be a ‘Sucker’ (forgive me!)

• Stagnation and lack of development within

your organization does not mean your

competitors are doing the same!

• How do you quantify happiness?

• Is there any customer who would not want a

better product at the same cost or the same

product at a lower cost?

• Optimize Demo

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Our guys are good engineers but they have no

experience of analysis

• >90% of FEA work is model preparation.

• Anyone with basic engineering knowledge

can do this.

• FEA programs are complex to use.

• Solid Edge Simulation makes running a

Simulation easy.

• Training an engineer to use FEA is simple.

• The cost of training an engineer to use

Simulation can be made back in savings in

analysis and material costs.

• Remember - Engineer derives from the latin

Ingeniare – to devise and Ingenium –

cleverness. We are smart cookies!!!

• Midsurface Demo

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I can see the advantage of simulation to us but it is

just another cost to the business

• The majority of businesses I visit over-engineer

their products.

• Using the correct amount of material saves

manufacturing and handling costs and

increases service revenue.

• Virtual prototyping greatly decreases time to

market.

• This enables your business to be flexible to

ever-demanding customers, giving you the

edge on your competition.

• Simulation isn’t right for every business

• However ‘better safe than sorry’ engineering

costs a lot of money. How quickly would

material/handling savings return your

investment in Simulation?

• Analysis Design Change Demo

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‘Bob’ does all our analysis in-house, there isn’t a need

for anyone else to be involved

• ‘Bob’ would probably disagree!

• Bottlenecks during analysis workflows cost

the business time and money and cost Bob

his sanity!

• All engineers have the capacity to optimize their

work and clean up geometry.

• This means ‘Bob’ can concentrate on doing

the important part of the analysis.

• Streamlining this workflow benefits everyone.

• Your business is more profitable and can get

products to market quicker, the design

engineers play a greater part in product

development and ‘Bob’ doesn’t haven’t to

render himself unconscious.

• U-Bracket Weld Demo

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Summary

• Solid Edge ST8 provides a comprehensive set of analysis tools that any

engineer can use.

• We have seen that costs can be incurred when;

• Passing jobs to an external contractor or a ‘Bob’ and the model is not

prepared for analysis.

• We do not continually seek to better our products and processes.

• Products are over-engineered, better safe than sorry!

• In-house analysts get snowed under with work, creating an unnecessary

bottle-neck in our output.

• Solid Edge ST8 can help us avoid these common pitfalls, employed

correctly, we can increase profitability, drive down time to market and stay

ahead of the competition.

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Questions?

Grant McLeod

Senior Applications Engineer

Prion Cutting Edge

Phone: 01865 981500

[email protected]

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