Optimize Your Product Design Workflow

Product complexity is one of the growing challenges in design today. Engineering teams are tasked with creating products that require multiphysics simulations, large amounts of CAD data and multiple iterations. In order to manage all these requirements and generate several possible designs, teams can use software such as modeFRONTIER. The platform offers tools for simulation-based design and analytics, giving engineers a software solution for optimization and decision making.

To get an in-depth look at modeFRONTIER, ESTECO will be hosting its North American user meeting (UM15) November 4-5 in Novi, MI. The two-day event "includes technology and product updates, as well as industrial application and academia research projects,” according to Carla Ferro, communications and press at ESTECO. Industries represented at the conference will include automotive, aerospace, manufacturing and consumer goods.

Automotive Industry Insight

One of this year’s keynote speakers is Mario Felice from Ford Motor Company. He will speak on “Multiphysics Simulation as Applied to the NVH Refinement of Ford Motor Company’s Powertrains.”

"Felice’s presentation will focus on the NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) analytical capabilities currently used at Ford Motor Company for the design and development of powertrains," says Ferro. "Specifically, he will showcase the application of system-level simulation through the use of multi-physics and multi-disciplinary methods to drive the NVH refinement of powertrain systems. The presentation will provide a high-level view of the Ford Motor Company simulation process, highlighting the use of optimization applied to drive the powertrain design from a component level to a full system level using a combination of finite element methods, acoustic boundary elements, computational fluid dynamics, fluid structure interaction and multi-disciplinary optimization methods.”

Keynote speakers from Whirlpool and Borg Warner Automotive are also slated to appear, according to ESTECO. These speakers are part of simulation-based design and aerodynamics departments, respectively.

User Applications

User-submitted presentations are another attraction at UM15. In the past, these case studies have covered in-the-field applications for design process rationalization, technical requirements for optimization as well as parallel engineering and design organization. The program includes not only product updates, but technical applications from companies such as Ford, Toyota, Bombardier, MMI Engineering and AES.

These user presentations "highlight how the use of ESTECO collaboration and distributed execution framework helps companies cope with complex design scenarios and effectively collaborate providing models, processes and resources,” Ferro says. This means covering topics such as simulation process and data management, design space exploration, optimization, automation and more.

Like ESTECO's 2014 modeFRONTIER user meeting in Trieste, UM15 offers attendees the chance to chat with colleagues and additional on-site vendors. Image courtesy of ESTECO.

A First-Hand Look

In addition to a host of presentations, attendees will also have the chance to attend a full day of training courses on November 5. Offered at both basic and advanced levels, these courses give registrants a chance to keep up with new software enhancements and features.

The conference will also include an area for exhibitors, including BETA CAE Systems, Convergent Science Inc., e-Xstream engineering, MSC Software, Exa Corporation, Detroit Engineered Products and NAFEMS.

Overall, at UM15, "attendees are introduced to innovative methodologies and applications of ESTECO optimization technologies from leading companies’ experts in different industrial sectors. Users can engage in discussions about best practices and learn strategies from top performers. Everybody has the chance to learn product updates and technology roadmap directly from ESTECO Technical Team,” says Ferro.