The manufacturer has implemented MSC.Software’s SimDesigner and Professional Services products as part of its move towards virtual technology.
ASC’s customers want to know which parts might fail under extreme conditions; to provide customers with this information our design engineering team is moving from the traditional build, test and rebuild process to the virtual design, analyze and verify product development process with SimDesigner for Catia V5, said Stephen Doncov, CAE specialist, ASC.
With Virtual Product Development, multiple iterations are virtually tested in the computer. Failures occur virtually, are fixed virtually and only when the best design is identified is physical testing used for validation.
The two companies said the project began in early 2004 to perform a set of virtual analyses on a header latch system for a convertible vehicle. According to MSC.Software, the connection between Catia V5 and the SimDesigner product family is designed to enable designers and analysts to more effectively interact and more efficiently complete projects similar to that one.
