COMPANY NEWS
GNB Industrial Power strengthens team with new Contract Manager – Motive Power
GNB Industrial Power (UK) Limited, a division of Exide Technologies, has appointed Vic Worthington to the newly created position of Contract Manager – Motive Power to reinforce its sales team and strengthen the links between sales and service. With over 20 year’s experience in the materials handling industry Vic is ideally suited to this new role, which has been created to help support and manage substantial installations from the sale to the completion, and after-service. Vic’s core responsibility will be to ensure all projects are fulfilled on schedule and on budget, and that all customer requirements are met. “We work very closely with our clients and are constantly looking at ways we can improve our systems and even further enhance our customer relations,” explains Nigel Darke, Managing Director of GNB Industrial Power
(UK) Ltd. “It is because of this that we identified a need for a Contract Manager to help supervise new projects through the whole process – from sale to conclusion.” Vic will be responsible for a portfolio of key customers, as well as guiding clients through the installation of Battery Transfer Systems. He will be involved in a variety of projects to help companies save both space, with double and triple-tiered Systems, and time, with the system taking only two minutes to remove a discharged battery and a re-charged battery to be put in its place. Vic will also manage retrospective installations, alongside coordinating complete turnkey solutions. “Having worked in materials handling for many years, I know GNB Industrial Power is the company everyone in the industry respects. Its reputation for product innovation and exceptional customer care precedes it, and
they are just a few of the reasons I am delighted to be joining the team,”
comments Vic Worthington. Nigel
concludes, “I would like to
Vic Worthington
take this opportunity to welcome Vic to GNB and I am confident he will be instrumental in helping us build an even more successful business.” For further information about GNB Industrial
Power, its products and services, please visit
www.gnb.co.uk or call 0845 606 4111.
DEM Solutions Extends EDEM Multi-physics Simulation Environment with Capability to Enable Co-simulation with Multibody Dynamics Software
New Programmable Interface expands EDEM Capability to Couple with Structural Mechanics Software to include coupling with Multibody Dynamics Codes
DEM Solutions, the company setting the standard for engineering application of discrete element method (DEM) simulation, has announced the release of EDEM 2.5.1 software with a new programmable interface to enable bi-directional coupling with Multibody Dynamics (MBD) simulation. The enhanced interfacing capability extends the EDEM simulation environment for customers using other computer-aided-engineering (CAE) tools, particularly those using structural
mechanics simulation software such as structural finite element analysis (FEA) and MBD in the design of heavy equipment and machinery critical to industries such as mining, off-road construction, forestry and agriculture. “The Multibody Dynamics Coupling Interface is important to customers who design machinery that handles or processes bulk materials, particularly where the dynamic loading from bulk materials is important in the design of the equipment components and/or the hydraulic control system,” stated Dr John Favier, CEO of DEM Solutions. “The use of structural mechanics software such as FEA and MBD is essential for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) for effective design of their equipment. Simulation of the interaction of equipment with the material it is designed to handle in real world conditions significantly enhances the capability of these CAE tools and enables engineers to design equipment with higher performance over the equipment service life. Employing coupled DEM-MDB simulation can also significantly reduce development costs and time-to-market by reducing reliance on field testing and use of empirical design rules when simulating transient loads from bulk materials.”
EDEM already allows coupling to structural FEA software through sharing of common surface meshes, enabling
simulation of the structural dynamics of equipment subject to transient loading from bulk materials. These coupled models are
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implemented using EDEM APIs and enable the structural response to transient surface loads to be computed using both static or dynamic FEA models.
As well as enabling the development of couplings between EDEM and 3rd party MBD software, the Multibody Dynamics Coupling Interface also provides a dedicated, programmable interface that can be used to implement user-defined equipment kinematics or rigid-body dynamics models of equipment responding to dynamic loading from contacting bulk material. Dr Favier noted: “We see demand for this enhanced capability from OEMs designing capital intensive machinery, including Mining equipment such as long-wall shearers, continuous miners, and drag line excavators, Off-road Construction, Forestry and Agricultural equipment such as back-hoes, graders, diggers, bucket loaders and grain harvesters and comminution equipment such as crushers and HPGR mills used in Cement and Mineral Processing as well as attrition and media mills used in size reduction and processing of particulates.” “With the addition of the Multibody Dynamics Coupling Interface, EDEM now has the interfaces and functionality to couple with all of the major CAE technologies, such as Structural FEA, MBD, CFD and EMAG – enabling a more integrated and seamless multi-physics simulation capability for engineering design and analysis in equipment manufacturing. Essentially, DEM Solutions can provide EDEM software for use on its own and for co-simulation with the majority of other commonly used CAE tools,” added Dr Favier.
http://www.dem-solutions.com. Email:
info@dem-solutions.com.
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