Balancing time to market with development costs and product liability remains a daunting challenge. Coupled with increasing competitive pressure to bring new and redesigned products to market ever faster, it’s no wonder so many companies are looking at the durability process as a critical link in the value chain and an opportunity for competitive advantage.

Benefits

Why work with nCode?

nCode is an engineering company that builds powerful software products.  Our engineering pedigree gives us a great understanding of real world needs and requirements.

nCode helps:

• Test engineers make the right engineering decisions, undertake rapid analysis and work collaboratively
• Design engineers deliver great product performance
• Operations and asset managers understand product usage- and optimize operations.

SoMat
More than just data acquisition instruments, eDAQ and eDAQ-lite are trusted by those who need to collect complex data in the harshest of environments, reliably, time and time again.

The eDAQ’s are expandable with a full range of specialist boards. eDAQs come with powerful and easy to use set up and visualization software, support CAN,  wireless networking,  and have a huge range of specialist data modes.

SoMat Senors are a new range of rugged transducers – ideal for use with the eDAQ.

ICE-flow
The ICE-flow family of products is targeted at test and design – from desktop analysis software for the engineer, to enterprise wide test data processing and collaboration solutions. ICE-flow is an integrated suite of products, designed to work together.

ICE-flow GlyphWorks is the analysis engine of the ICE-flow family.  Very intuitive, with no scripting needed, GlyphWorks is designed to rapidly process large volumes of test data, with automated reporting built in.  Applications are infinite – from specialist noise and vibration analysis, to durability calculations to any general signal processing – time savings and insight are guaranteed.

ICE-flow DesignLife is nCode’s CAE Fatigue software and is used to assess fatigue and durability upfront in the design process.   DesignLife is compatible with all popular FEA formats (ANSYS, NASTRAN, HYPERWORKS etc) – and is fully integrated with GlyphWorks. DesignLife has all the fatigue models you expect – with the advantage of being the easiest to use CAE fatigue solution on the market.

ICE-flow Library is nCode’s engineering data management, analysis and collaboration solution.  Designed for huge volumes of test or CAE derived data, Library enables engineering collaboration, delivers automated analysis and standardizes processes. Library is a web based solution and readily configurable.  It is used across many applications including Road Load Data Processing, Airframe Data Management, Engine Test Data Analysis and More.

To optimize the durability process, there is a critical need to integrate physical testing and analysis with more efficient and cost-effective methodologies focused on process rather than point solutions.

The framework provided by these improved procedures offers numerous opportunities for innovation. Advanced data management systems offer further opportunities by transforming engineering data into information from which business decisions can be made.

nCode Solutions: nCode has solutions for every step of the durability process. For managing loading environments, nSoft provides advanced signal processing and an easy-to-use graphical environment. FATIMAS enables fatigue prediction within nSoft based on measured strains, while FE Fatigue and nCode partner products such as MSC.Fatigue provide fatigue solutions within popular CAE environments.

In addition to these products, nCode delivers enterprise solutions to streamline and accelerate the durability process. These projects integrate workflow tools and information across the enterprise, and provide powerful and accessible environments for collaborative engineering and test. These enterprise solutions are powered by nCode`s emerging ICE-flow technology.

A crucial part of any durability process is defining the loading environment (loads) and consequences (strains and stresses) that affect systems and components. In the test world, this information is often obtained through measurements at the proving ground or in controlled real usage situations. In the CAE world, the increasing need to optimize product durability earlier in the design cycle requires that loads be defined virtually, through computer simulation. In both scenarios, data integrity is critical to making meaningful durability estimates.

Loading environments are typically defined in terms of forces or strains that vary over time. These must be checked for integrity and consistency with experience. The sheer quantity of data is often overwhelming, making manual processing impractical and error prone; as a result, automated procedures for detecting and correcting anomalies are routinely applied. Once validated, data and associated meta-information must be archived and made accessible for later use.

Accelerating simulation is vital in today’s market. Often, a considerable portion of the loading environment does not significantly contribute to the overall damage. Techniques are available to eliminate the non-damaging portions, thereby reducing the time and costs required to predict damage in either test or CAE.