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process as fast and as accurate as possible.’ ‘Tis goal, to optimise the design process, remains the same – but our methodologies have changed over the years,’ he added. Tis is the cornerstone of Esteco’s
success – its ability to evolve and future- proof its soſtware to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse set of customers. Te company is heavily involved in the traditional engineering sectors, such as aerospace and automotive, but its 250-strong client base also includes businesses in industries such as the energy sector and home appliances market. Tese customers can choose from
two core sets of soſtware, or bundle both of them together. First of all, there is modeFRONTIER, which takes a multidisciplinary approach to design simulation. It is aimed at designers who are required
to simultaneously consider multiple perspectives to determine the optimal solution to a design problem while balancing increasingly complex issues. modeFRONTIER is structured around an easy-to-use graphical user interface and promises to streamline the design process by combining objectives relating to variables within different disciplines. Tis is achieved through its powerful
workflow, which allows the execution of complex chains of design optimisation. Innovative algorithms combine opposing objectives to determine the best set of possible solutions to the issue in hand. It also has a host of post-processing tools for users to perform further statistical analysis, data visualisation and decision making. It became clear that the process-focused
methodology of modeFRONTIER alone would not resolve all of the issues that design and R&D teams face, so Esteco developed a second soſtware offering. Poloni explained: ‘We began to recognise that users in design departments needed to exchange more information – not just in paper form but through their soſtware models as well. Tey needed something to enable and optimise the high level of collaboration needed during the design simulation process – not just the optimisation of the simulation process itself.’ Tis is where Esteco’s SOMO soſtware
came into being. It sits at the enterprise level to provide a distributed collaboration framework to manage the complexity of running multidisciplinary design products. SOMO allows design teams to share simulation and optimisation data as well
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as models and strategies via a common shared repository that can be accessed anywhere, anytime on any device via a web browser or private network. Tis streamlines and speeds up the design cycle and helps to bring together the large, geographically diverse and multidisciplinary design teams that many companies now use to design and develop their products. Tis has enabled a shiſt in the thinking
about simulations for such companies. Poloni said: ‘It opens up global parameters so users can not only optimise their
SIMULATION
BECOMES PART OF THE STRATEGIC DECISION OF A COMPANY
models on the component and system level, but they can expand their work so that the decision-making process becomes strategic.’ ‘In other words, the simulation becomes
part of the strategic decision of a company,’ he added. Esteco offers both the modeFRONTIER
and SOMO systems as a bundle, known as the Esteco Enterprise Suite (EES). Tis offering essentially extends the modeFRONTIER desktop paradigm to a web-based collaborative environment where design teams can share their models, workflows, simulations, optimisations and results. Tis combination of an overarching
enterprise level and grassroots development level approach is a savvy
decision that pulls together the industry need for effective collaboration with the requirement from the design teams to pool multiple competencies and skills to optimise the design process.
A social network for engineers Collaboration will continue to be a key theme for Esteco in the future. Poloni said: ‘In the past, customers ran several simulations on HPC systems and their work remained in the confines of their team or department. Now we are seeing a shiſt to social components, sharing of information and, effectively, a social network for engineers and designers to do their work better.’ ‘Tis involves the sharing of information
between departments, companies and the sharing of information without limits. Tis will not happen overnight as it involves a huge shiſt in culture,’ he added. Tis could end with an even greater shiſt
in the culture of the engineering world, where the customer sits at the heart of the collaboration and design process, as Poloni added: ‘If we extrapolate further into the future, design decisions made by managers today may be made by clients or the end-users in the future. In other words, the job may be closer to the buyer of the solution than the company working on that solution.’ Such high-level collaboration may be
‘within the confines of science fiction’, Poloni concludes, but with the continuing adoption of collaborative soſtware across the corporate and consumer environment and tightening security protocols, it could soon become a reality. l
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