Autodesk has offered its on-premise PLM, the Vault, since 2003, and last year it also partnered with Jitter- bit (Oakland, CA), a developer of flexible application and data integration software, for working on integra- tion tools for Autodesk Vault and on the cloud-based PLM 360. “What I’ve found is that a lot of times we’re at the table with customers because we’re a cloud-based application,” noted Rob Cohee, senior manager, PLM and Product Management, Autodesk Inc. “Through this, we’re able to offer it at a significantly lower up- front cost and a more attractive pricing model.” The high expense of traditional PLM is still a bar- rier for many customers, but with lower pricing and faster deployments of the newer cloud-based systems offered on a SaaS model, that situation may be changing. The Autodesk PLM 360 can set up custom- ers nearly overnight, Cohee noted, with many new deployments within just 24–48 hours. Digital manufacturing simulation tools, which are considered a subset of PLM by CIMdata, also com- prise a large component of the 3D visualization offer-
ings by major providers such as Autodesk, Dassault and Siemens PLM. These tools enable manufacturing engineers to easily perform 3D factory-floor layouts and assess requirements through digital validation and virtual commissioning long before finalizing the factory’s final form. Digital manufacturing solu- tions available include Autodesk’s enhanced Fac- tory Design Suite 2013, Dassault’s Delmia brand V6 solutions, and Siemens’ Tecnomatix suite of factory simulation systems. Widely used in aerospace and automotive manu- facturing, highly realistic 3D CAE simulations give manufacturing engineers and other professionals a more accurate idea of how a particular part will perform under stress. Through FEA and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses, engineers can deter- mine with a high degree of accuracy how a particular part or product’s material properties will do under stress, or how fluid dynamics changes the equation. FEA simulations are critical for key applications including testing automotive crash-test dummies, for safety design and analysis on automotive structural
In Siemens PLM Software’s Tecnomatix digital manufacturing solutions, the Jack human simulates ergonomic difficulties encountered in a truck assembly operation prior to production.
Image courtesy Siemens PLM Software.
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