Develop environmental control systems and energy-efficient cabin designs that ensure superior thermal comfort and improve the overall passenger experience

• Quickly evaluate the performance of environmental control systems in terms of cabin temperature, humidity, air quality control, and pressurization
• Ensure a comfortable microclimate within the cabin while optimizing the seating configurations
• Support the architectural design of HVAC layouts working with HVAC engineers
• Offer a broad range of innovative cabin customizations for airline companies
• Reduce expensive and challenging physical tests

Quickly develop designs for HVAC and ECS systems that minimize energy consumption, optimize air flow and duct layout, and maximize occupant thermal comfort

• Deliver innovative and safe ECS and HVAC systems that provide the required air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization
• Decrease the amount of expensive physical testing and the number of design iterations by performing detailed simulation of ECS and HVAC systems
• Reduce development costs and time to mark

Perform optimized and robust composites designs to maintain strength rating while optimizing weight and thereby reducing cost of manufacturing and prototyping

• Use advance surface modeling tools to create composites data on complex surfaces
• Create fully associative design to handle changes, modifications and updates quickly and automatically
• Design in context of assemblies
• Define and manage complete detailed stacking and generate plies from the conceptual design
• Generate conceptual solids or IML surfaces for early integration in the mockup
• Perform advanced producibility analysis with fiber simulation for hand layup and fiber placement
• Integrate a quality-rules-based approach for robust design and control of composites data
• Prepare drawing-based ply books with ease and manage updates and changes automatically
• Support structural simulations at the conceptual and detailed design phases to validate strength, stiffness and dynamics of the composite designs, and perform weight optimization
• Reduce cost of prototyping, leading to an accelerated time to market

Model and validate composite designs for stiffness, strength, and performance requirements, to reduce costs in composite structure prototypes and testing

• Validate composite design with associated strength criteria
• Efficiently design ply layup and material orientation to achieve required stiffness and strength while optimizing weight
• Model composite components with fundamental static, frequency, and buckling simulation
• Reduce cost of prototyping and manufacturing via early-phase design simulation to reduce time for composite product delivery

Create and manage complex assembly models requiring automated modeling techniques and the collaborative efforts of several engineering teams

• Collaborative tool to build large-scale, multi-level assemblies leveraging multiple teams and locations.
• Provide Product Development, Mechanical, Design, and Simulation Engineers the expert tools needed to prepare advanced simulations.
• Automatic generation of high quality simulation models via ‘fire and forget’ execution on HPC.
• Less time spent looking for geometry, part assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE.

A Simulation Role for Engineers who perform routine fluid calculations to guide iterative design modifications

• Complete designer-level Fluids Simulation does not require extensive specialist-level simulation knowledge or experience.
• Intuitive interface utilizing a dedicated User Assistant for fluids set-up requires minimal simulation knowledge.
• Improve designs to optimize flow distribution, minimize pressure loss and turbulence.

Perform fluid flow and heat transfer simulations, leading to better quality designs while avoiding manufacturing issues

• Efficiently explore fluid flow and thermal performance design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Leverage full integration with CAD and PLM for concurrent, simulation-driven product development
• Easily predict steady-state and long-transient flow and thermal behavior of products with the designer-centric guided interface
• Collaborate with project stakeholders around fluid flow simulation results for informed decisions
• Include local compute using up to 8 cores -- with additional compute capacity also available

Power cardiovascular innovation with the Living Heart on the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for Life Sciences

• Understand baseline cardiac behavior with human heart simulations.
• Interactively update model parameters to study disease states and explore treatment options.
• Evaluate and improve cardiovascular devices (stents, artificial valves, etc.) within the beating heart.
• Assess treatment outcomes and make device decision by including growth and remodeling effects.
• Develop innovative cardiovascular devices that are ever more reliable, easier to deploy, and effective for much longer periods of time.
• Improve outcomes of clinical studies and accelerate go-to-market with greater confidence in your devices.

Increase fidelity of simulations by calibrating advanced material models from physical or virtual test data

• Calibration of advanced material models from physical or virtual test data to enable high fidelity simulation
• Support for a broad range of materials including metals, polymers, and composites
• An intuitive user experience that is accessible to non-experts
• Built-in optimization algorithms to ensure accurate representation of test data
• The ability to share calibrated material models across the enterprise

Evaluate and improve plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling and packing process and the mold's cooling system

• Evaluate effectiveness of mold cooling system designs
• Integration with CATIA Mold & Tooling Design for automatic detection of injection locations, cooling systems, injection system, cavities
• Simple, easy to use interface with a guided simulation assistant to minimize the learning curve
• Predicts common molding defects including, weld-lines, sink marks, air traps and incomplete filling (short shots)
• Predicts required injection pressures and tool clamping forces, enabling selection of an appropriate injection molding machine

Validate and optimize plastic part and mold tooling designs by simulating the filling, packing, warpage & mold cooling early in the product development process

• Virtually test the performance of plastic part and mold tooling designs with an intuitive, guided simulation assistant that minimizes the learning curve
• Cover the needs for all industries, all key workflows, and all user personas with a single role
• Predict common molding defects including: weld-lines, sink marks, air traps, and incomplete filling (short shots)
• Evaluate the effectiveness of mold cooling system designs
• Apply advanced structural capabilities available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, such as  non-linear multi-scale material modeling, directly on a common model
• Leverage process automation, design of experiments, and advanced optimization tools available in the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform

Provide the detailed essential mesh and assembly modeling, to reduce non-value added tasks, and build solver-ready finite element models timely and efficiently

• Provide structures modelling and assembly for T&M, A&D, and other strategic Industry process experiences
• Fully automate mid-surface extraction, mesh generation, and mesh re-generation
• Manage subassemblies and utilize automated assembly connections modeling
• Generate abstraction shapes for simulation associated to original design geometry
• Perform collaborative model management for building and sharing models particularly suited for large assemblies

Improve productivity and reduce time-consuming manual tasks by building and deploying automated simulation processes for all users in the organization

• Efficient Drag & Drop simulation process authoring. Capture once, execute many times to increase engineering productivity
• Unique integration with native 3DEXPERIENCE geometry and parameters to deliver seamless connection with design data and zero translation
• Tight coupling with native 3DXPERIENCE SIMULIA solvers to give straightforward access to robust simulation technology
• Democratization of simulation methods through custom web interfaces tuned for non-experts throughout an organization
• The ability to trace and understand the origin and pedigree of data used in simulation studies to increase certification confidence

Use finite element techniques to assess the structural integrity of steel structures such as ships, buildings and bridges subject to a wide range of loading conditions

• Automated modeling for steel structure design
• Full access to 1D/2D/3D modeling & meshing
• Multistep structural scenarios including: Static, Frequency, Thermal, Buckling, Modal Dynamics
• Large model 3D visualization/post-processing and XY plotting
• Automatic mesh generation, including mesh export for Abaqus or Nastran formats
• High-performance results post-processing to interpret and understand product behavior

Engineer and validate the steel structure design, from preliminary to detail, to minimize costs and engineering time, while reducing weight

• Support full parametric design with various construction elements
• Perform early estimation of preliminary design for manufacturing planning in advance
• Experience robust and flexible detail design piece parts generation from basic design
• Perform productive design without errors and rework
• Support tight and seamless integration with manufacturing
• Generate various classification drawings and production drawings with symbolic and mechanical representations
• Efficiently develop and validate alternate design scenarios while complying with customer requirements

An intuitive Design Simulation solution providing efficient linear analysis for product designers and engineers

• Seamless integration and common user experience between CAD, PLM, and CAE with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform for unique Product Development experience
• Smart applications focused on intuitiveness to remove the guesswork from product design
• Provide fast insight and direction to answer key performance questions for product innovation
• Intuitive guided workflow including: Linear Static, Buckling, Frequency and steady state Thermal

Accelerate product design with efficient evaluation of stress, strain, natural frequency and temperature in a guided environment

• Intuitively assess the performance of products under linear static conditions and guide the overall design process
• Quickly evaluate the strength and stiffness of components for informed what-if design scenarios
• Use a unique guided workflow process that enables any designer to rapidly determine product performance
• Easily and efficiently test product designs with automated modeling and ability to control accuracy vs compute time
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

A comprehensive linear structural analysis solution for product designers and engineers

• Provide Design Engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process
• Delivers unique design workflow in 3DEXPERIENCE with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
• Enables high performance results visualization for a robust post processing process
• Guided Workflow for Linear Static, Frequency, Buckling, Steady State Thermal, Harmonic and Modal Dynamic analysis types

Provide design engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform linear structural simulations during the design process

• Test structural performance with a unique guided Workflow for Linear Static, Frequency, Buckling, Steady State Thermal, Harmonic and Modal Dynamic analysis types
• Easily assess large assembly performance with intuitive contact definition and powerful contact detection capability
• Evaluate structural KPIS of any geometry type with high quality meshing including solid, shell and beam elements with automatic mesh generation
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Assess the structural performance of products in nonlinear static and dynamic environments for informed engineering decisions

• Provide product engineers powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations during the design process
• Experience efficient “what if” scenarios through seamless associativity/integration with geometry
• Use a unique engineering workflow with an access to robust simulation technology within an intuitive interface
• Work with multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Accelerate structural performance simulation with unique automated model creation for large assemblies
• Enable high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models
• Include local compute up to 4 cores

Use simulation to assess the integrity of products under a wide range of loading conditions to guide decisions on product performance and quality

• Provide Product Development, Mechanical, Design, and Simulation Engineers the powerful and intuitive tools needed to perform sophisticated structural simulations
• Delivers access to sophisticated simulation technology within an  intuitive interface
• More time efficient looking for geometry, part or assembly information, fastener data, etc. thanks to the collaborative nature of 3DEXPERIENCE
• Offers multistep structural scenarios for product performance and quality testing during the product design process
• Enables very large model solution and high performance results visualization, particularly for very large models

Perform strength and deflection calculations under static conditions to validate product performance and life to guide design modifications

• Structural Simulation Designer users can experience product performance virtually so that they can make better-informed design decisions.
• The intuitive user experience makes simulation adoption possible for all design engineers..
• Collaboration is built into the underlying 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

Achieve desired thermal performance and avoid failures due to overheating. Improve safety and reduce warranty related costs

• Efficiently simulate fluid flow and thermal performance of design alternatives to accelerate product innovation
• Explore and identify optimal cooling strategies (passive, active) to address smaller form factors that drive increased heat density
• Identify optimal sizing and placement of components (fans, vents, heat sinks) within packaging constraints
• Use accurate and validated results to ensure the product fulfills required electronic certification standards