SEC implements ESI's simulation-based design

The unified simulation-based design environment relies on VisualDSS, ESI's end-to-end decision-support system, enabling companies to build and manage simulation models for multi-domain usage, to manage simulation content and data, and to automate project workflow.

Different existing CAE solutions were integrated to VisualDSS, including Vdot - ESI's project monitoring and execution platform.

The integration of Vdot into VisualDSS resulted in obtaining the first industrial version of ESI's Project Team Manager.

The Project Team Manager was fully web enabled, allowing engineers to easily access standard automated processes and workflows.

The other options that were incorporated to VisualDSS include: interface with a third-party portfolio of PLM solutions for guided CAE automation such as auto meshing and auto assembly; job submission; automatic generation of standard reports; interface with a third-party optimisation tool; interface with SEC's internal Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system; and process template for CAE automation to facilitate SEC's most common analyses: mould pressure and wobble.

The project involved ESI engineers and CAE/IT experts from SEC ensuring the timely delivery of the complete system according to production-usage specifications.

To measure the success of this implementation, SEC tested the simulation-data-management system with the design of a Samsung visual-display model: an LCD television screen.

The mould-pressure analysis time was reduced by 90 per cent and the wobble analysis by almost 95 per cent.

SEC was also able to widen the scope of its design investigation while maintaining the traceability of the data and content.

The unified simulation-based-design environment served as a decision-making tool for SEC management.