Driving Productivity with Enterprise Simulation Management
To gain a competitive edge, manufacturers need to harness the knowledge and experience of the entire organization to drive greater innovation, lower costs, and faster product development - every time. While enterprise systems have been implemented to manage the workflow and information of sales, manufacturing logistics, and even CAD design, simulation remains a largely unmanaged activity in most manufacturing companies today.
Complete Management System for Simulation
SimManager is a world-class system for managing the simulation processes, resources, and information of the contemporary, global engineering enterprise. Leveraging MSC`s foundation of deep simulation domain expertise, SimManager provides access and controlled enterprise visibility to simulation methods and data including templates, models, results, and reports. SimManager encapsulates and manages simulation workflow, provides intelligent contextual mapping of underlying simulation data and captures an audit trail of the process unveiling the intellectual property (IP) that details why, how, when, and by whom every piece of data is generated. This IP enables companies to manage and refine reliability and quality on an ongoing basis, enabling continuous improvement of simulation processes and powering sustainable engineering innovation.
Hub for Simulation Re-use
SimManager stores simulation data as it is created, and enables the creation of libraries of standard, reusable best practices in the form of SimTemplates. Methods experts, analysts, and designers within a company and its supply chain can easily find and reuse current models and SimTemplates with only a web browser, eliminating redundant modeling effort and ensuring consistent, repeatable results independent of the user or their location. Enterprise level security is built into the system, providing role-based access only to authorized users to enable collaboration while assuring the protection of your intellectual property.
Harnessing the Power of Your Simulation Assets
SimManager provides connectivity to high performance compute systems and easily integrates leading job submission and queuing software to help maximize utilization of your hardware and software investments. Its open, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) makes it simple to integrate 3rd party and in-house applications, spreadsheets, and other productivity software. SimManager`s powerful graphical Process Builder allows you to combine SimTemplates, macros, and virtually any simulation application into a standard and consistent simulation workflow, without programming knowledge.
Discover the impact SimManager delivers across the enterprise.
Using Simulation Templates across the Enterprise
- Design Engineers and suppliers using Pro/ENGINEER can retrieve project specific templates for expert guided structures and motion analysis on CAD geometry by connecting to SimManager
- SimEnterpise Templates guide Pro/ENGINEER user through steps for model set up; and selecting required geometry input from Pro/ENGINEER part
- Loads, boundary conditions, and material properties specified in template for assured accuracy
- Execute analysis template automatically within CAD interface with easy to use features enabling less experienced users to run analysis confidently
- Post process structures and motion results directly within Pro/ENGINEER
- Template results help drive smarter design decisions earlier in design stages
- Results and associated data are published back to SimManager for traceability and collaboration
Applications
An End-to-End Solution for Enterprise Simulation Data Management
With fine-grain access to performance, pedigree and context data, SimManager archives, manages, and makes easily-accessible valuable simulation IP assets. Engineers can perform more simulations, establish trends from previous data, evaluate design changes, and generate comparative reports – improving collaboration and bringing greater productivity across the entire enterprise and supply chain.
Simulation Data Management
- Captures, stores, and manages simulation data, including work-in-process (WIP)
- Secure data access available through the SimManager Enterprise Simulation Portal (for managers and suppliers), MSC Software’s SimDesigner simulation tool (for design engineers), and through expert tool environments for analysts
- Data sharing features such as check-in/check-out, data pedigree and context, and powerful search functionality
Process Management
- Captures, stores, and manages the process of how simulation data was created
- Visual process maps, built-in forms, and wizards enable easy definition and automation of product development methodologies
- Automated process execution with task "chaining"
- Enterprise compute connection leverages existing job queuing systems and connects to high performance computing environments
Enterprise Knowledge Management
- Manages simulation processes and data at the object level
- Enables full auditing of the sequence of steps performed during the course of a simulation
- Fully tracks the pedigree of every result.
Enterprise Simulation Portal
- Web-based, data browser for viewing processes and data stored within SimManager
- Customizable data presentation
- Doesn’t require engineering expertise
Enterprise Application Integration
- Links to existing enterprise environments such as TDM, PDM, ERP, or supplier systems, including both batch and interactive systems
- Supports an end-to-end solution with leading product lifecycle management (PLM) systems via a common middleware application
Open Interface to Third-Party Tools
- Supports all types of design and analysis tools in an open platform environment
Benefits
Simulation Enabling the Engineering Business
Providing the collaborative insight manufacturers require to think outside previous design parameters and stay ahead of customer needs, SimManager enables faster, more innovative design methodologies that lower development costs and establish unprecedented competitive advantage.
Maximum Innovation, Minimum Risk
SimManager drives reliable, consistent, and automated simulation methods and processes while capturing, sharing, and enabling reuse of engineering simulation data and processes to speed the innovation and product development process.
Improved Collaboration
Managed access to simulation methods, processes, and data across disciplines, organizational boundaries, and geographies allows designers, analysts, and managers throughout the extended enterprise to stay synchronized and work together effectively.
Assured Consistency and Reliability
Reusable simulation templates and an auditable, managed simulation workflow assure that best practices are applied consistently so you can rely on simulation results and eliminate physical prototypes.
Speed through Automation
Repetitive, manual-intensive tasks are automated to accelerate the product development process and free engineers to focus on product quality and innovation.
Simulation Data Management
Storage, organization, and managed access to all simulation methods, processes, and data enable reuse, collaboration, and insight into design decisions made yesterday, today, and in the future.
Framework for Multi-Discipline Optimization
Managed creation, distribution, and execution of simulation methods and processes provides a framework for multi-run experiments including Design of Experiments, Stochastics, and Optimization across Noise and Vibration, Durability, Dynamics, and other engineering disciplines.
Six-Sigma Approach to Simulation
An auditable simulation process providing a complete pedigree of models, results, and methods provides a foundation for continuous process improvement. Over time, simulation methods and processes can be improved to achieve results that can be relied on in place of physical prototypes, accelerating product development and reducing cost.
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