right information is delivered, and delivered in the context of users’ job.” Web and mobile-based applications, such as Teamcenter mobility and Engineering Work Instructions (EWI) will provide the ability to work anywhere, including the shop floor, with access to the managed data live, Hoffman stated. “This will provide access to necessary data that is configured to the user and task at hand,” he said. “Imagine taking Process Simulate and running it on a tablet device such as the Microsoft Sur- face while you are out on the shop floor during a production run, noticing a problem, loading the data, fixing the problem and then uploading it back into the manufacturing system without missing a beat.”
Speeding Simulation via the Cloud In addition to its PLM 360 solution, Autodesk also offers its
suite of CAE applications through its cloud-based Simulation 360 suite with Autodesk’s Simulation Mechanical and Simula-
tion CFD (computational fluid dynamics) software for fluid dynamics and thermal simulations. Another powerful digital manufacturing tool is Simulation Moldflow, a manufacturing solution that addresses the manufacturability of a product, Martin noted. “Ideally, it’s used up-front in the product engi- neering process to help optimize manufacturing, but it’s criti- cal in a lot of ways to optimizing the performance, cost and quality of plastic-injection-molded parts,” Martin said. A key trend today is that customers expect their suppliers to bring more capability to the table in terms of their engineer- ing expertise, and the types of tools that they bring to bear to solve problems, Martin added. “There’s a need for companies to be able to perform these analyses differently as these analy- ses get more complex. The amount of computing power that it takes to execute some of these very large Moldflow simula- tions can be substantial. By providing the ability to do these analyses on the cloud, you remove one of the constraints— you’re not having to purchase a powerful workstation that you
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