IndustriesSimOffice is designed to fill the engineering needs across many industries, including:
MSC Software leads the way in helping manufacturers discover new methods to innovate and meet growing challenges unique to their industry. To that end , SimOffice supports the best practices established for each industry by integrating simulation into the existing design process ; instead of design teams changing their workflow to fit new software. With a MS Office-driven platform, it's easy to share information between groups, using common data formats such as Excel and leverage simulation where it has been under-utilized before. See below for several examples of how SimOffice provided immediate value within the automotive and aerospace industries. Case StudiesAerospace SupplierChallengeAn aerospace supplier has both advanced and “mainstream” simulation needs. They want to get more leverage out of their designers, by having them to perform more simulation, but the types of simulation they need are more advanced than the designers are typically used to performing. Plus the company does not want to invest in more high end tools, when most of the work the designer perform is more “mainstream” simulation work. This would free up their engineering specialists to focus on some more pressing technical challenges the company is facing. SolutionMSC SimOffice includes non-linear contact simulation as part of the standard package, effectively bringing advanced simulation techniques into the mainstream. This capability provides the ability to more accurately simulate assemblies of components, ensuring to get better designs and avoiding over design and minimizing the expensive design-test-redesign cycle. ValueThe aerospace supplier is able to more efficiently use their designers, specialists, and simulation resource investments, while ensuring that they get high quality simulation results as part of their development process. Automotive SupplierChallengeA medium sized Automotive Supplier has design and engineering teams distributed worldwide. They also have global customers that they need to support, but even within their own sphere they have difficulties managing and sharing data. They want to improve their product development capabilities by getting their designers and engineers involved in the concept development with the customer. In addition, these designers don’t have much experience with CAE and simulation. SolutionThe solution is to provide quick and easy management of data to teams worldwide to make collaboration more efficient, while securely controlling access to that data. Integration with Windows Sharepoint makes it easier for the existing IT team to implement and support SimOffice, as well as manage and control access to the people that need it, including customers.
ValueThe company has easily set up a means by which they can quickly and securely iterate design projects. Automotive SupplierChallenge
SolutionIntegrate an Excel based designed template with MSC SimOffice to simplify, standardize and automate the pulley design analysis process. ValueExisting design staff can now perform CAE analysis to meet customer requirements, while providing faster design turnaround, and supplying added capability allowing the company to gain more business. |
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Now the customer is able to supply the original design requirements along with any existing geometry data they might have. Analysts are able to grab that data and build out the Excel design tool, which can then be provided to the Design engineers. The Design Engineers can perform design studies and add that information back to the project site for the customer to access and review. The customer may even download these files to perform additional analyses on. 
