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to the competition, where we hope to bring the Cup home to Britain for the fi rst time in race history.”
The racing team of Land Rover BAR chose Siemens solutions to adopt an integrated virtual environment for digital modeling and simulation. Land Rover BAR uses Siemens NX for product design, Teamcenter data man- agement software, the Fibersim portfolio of software for composites engineering and Siemens’ Simcenter software portfolio, including Femap and Star CCM+ software for fi nite element analysis (FEA) and computational fl uid dy- namics (CFD) analysis.
“They’re scrambling for a week to provide the best components possible to their teams. It really is a very dynamic environment—and their competition is doing the same thing.”
Creating the fastest, most-effi cient design environment is key to racing teams—either on land, air or sea. Rusk noted that NASCAR teams operate similarly to the Formula 1 mod- els, requiring quick designs and highly accurate components, often created with exotic materials including advanced com- posites made with additive manufacturing processes. “We see this in the US as well, where there are a number of NASCAR teams doing similar work. They go through the same thing, prepping for the next race,” Rusk said. “We’re also in very large deployments in large global manufacturing companies.”
Driving these developments is a need for advanced systems engineering, fi nding the fastest, most effi cient ways to develop in- novative product designs. “Companies are saying ‘We want to get earlier and earlier,’ in their designs,” Rusk said, “and we offer detailed design simulation and manage- ment of those processes. “The bigger defi nition of PLM is how can we help companies earlier on in their design cycle. They want to know how the product will perform against the design. We do that with a lot of upfront knowl- edge, giving them good fl exible ways to collaborate.” Important elements to help designers include the new architecture
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diagram capabilities added in Siemens Teamcenter and ad- ditional simulation capabilities, such as Siemens’ acquisition of LMS a few years ago that added the Image Lab, giving users needed testing against real-world scenarios, he noted. Siemens also more recently acquired CD-adapco, which includes the CCM+ software used for advanced 3D thermal simulations. “It’s really a product that scales very well,” Rusk said, noting that CCM+ is used in subsonic and sonic fl ow for aerospace, he said, and for air-fuel mixing for internal combustion engines.
Calling in the Digital Twins Virtually all PLM developers emphasize this digital twin con-
cept in product development software strategies, along with many other elements including the continued expansion of collaborative product design and development functionalities. Key trends that are supported by the Dassault Systèmes’ (Paris) 3DExperience platform and associated brand applica- tions include customer-driven development, virtual experi- ence simulation/testing/optimization, model-based enter- prise, cloud deployment with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), data-driven applications, digital thread, digital twin and virtual twin, big data, IoT, plugin-less browser-based applications, dashboards and widgets, and business intelligence with PLM analytics, noted Eric Green, Dassault Systèmes vice presi- dent, Delmia User Experience and Advocacy. “Innovation effi ciency is often impeded by multiple hand-
offs across disciplines and functions, due to discontinuity in processes and systems, resulting in elongating timelines and rework,” Green said. “The older generation electronic PLM
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