COBHAM, England, Dec. 1, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division has
today introduced Elements, new simulation software that helps
engineering teams understand the behaviour of systems that are
becoming increasingly complex in modern products. Using the
software, teams can evaluate the performance and feasibility of new
design concepts quickly to inform more efficient product
development and reduce risk and cost.
Elements addresses the growing importance of integrated,
multi-disciplinary system development and end-to-end workflows.
Customers in every industry are demanding technologies that
consider many physics domains and tackle mechatronics challenges in
a robust way, fuelling a growing trend towards system-level
engineering. Achieving this requires the integration of all
relevant engineering disciplines, control systems, and third-party
supplier systems to understand how the domains interact, and how a
design decision in one discipline impacts others.
Systems engineers can easily learn to use the Elements software,
using its drag-and-drop environment to model any physics type or
logic and analyse systems by intuitively connecting blocks –
regardless of whether they represent electrical, hydraulic,
mechanical components – to solve system-level engineering problems.
It is based on the Modelica language, which is an open and widely
used standard for building fast, flexible, and customisable
models.
Systems modelling is indispensable in the early design phases
because little information is required – often a CAD model,
equation, or lookup table is sufficient and a 3D mesh is not
required. Elements further speeds up engineering development
because it also ensures that system-level models compute quickly
and efficiently by optimising equations and code for fast
calculation, but with no loss of fidelity.
As the design develops, and components and subsystems are
detailed in specialist simulation software, the components can be
routinely integrated into a larger system through full compliance
with the FMI standard and Hexagon's proprietary SmartFMU
technology. SmartFMU unlocks the Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) for
supported Hexagon products so that changes can be made directly in
the Elements system-level model without having to go back to the
specialist Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software and its expert
user. This helps to avoid resource bottlenecks, time-consuming
switching between applications, and versioning problems.
Hexagon's roadmap will see its best-in-class CAE technologies
readied for easy and productive use with Elements. At launch, the
software provides SmartFMU connectivity with Adams multibody
dynamics software and Easy5. Future plans are likely to include
workflows with Cradle CFD thermal-fluid dynamics and Actran
acoustic simulation products, among others.
Both standard FMI support and the novel SmartFMU plug-and-play
capabilities offer immediate value and address challenges of system
complexity, including those for transportation electrification; for
example:
- Helping automotive engineers to find optimal solutions to
vehicle range optimization issues by considering a vehicle's energy
use under different driving conditions, taking into account eDrive
design, regenerative braking, climate control, ADAS safety
requirements, and battery choice.
- Improving the flexibility and accuracy of industrial robotics
by designing control systems that take detailed mechanical system
vibrations and interactions from multi-body dynamics simulation
into account.
- Right-sizing heavy battery systems in new eVTOL aircraft
designs by helping engineers understand the power draw during
take-off and landing, safety margins, and thermal management system
controls.
- Implementing safer, more sustainable long-life battery systems
by using Elements to design control systems that balance the
improved performance of lithium-ion batteries at elevated
temperatures with the impact heating has on cell
degradation.
Elements was developed in close cooperation with Maplesoft,
building upon its powerful maths engine to optimise system
equations and deliver fast efficient simulation to Hexagon's
customers. Chris Harduwar, VP of
Strategic Solutions at Maplesoft, commented: "We are excited to
begin this long-term collaboration with Hexagon, which has an
impressive vision and track record of innovation. By combining the
tried-and-tested Maplesoft system-level modelling technology with
the extensive Hexagon CAE portfolio, engineers in many industries
benefit from new productivity-boosting solutions that significantly
reduce simulation effort."
Mahesh Kailasam, General Manager
for Design and Engineering Software at Hexagon, commented,
"Elements offers engineers an easy way to explore behaviour of
systems quickly and find better solutions to problems using
simulation, before committing designs to subsequent
resource-intensive engineering processes. We look forward to a
long-term collaboration with Maplesoft, using its powerful and open
technology foundations to realise synergies with our extensive
Hexagon CAE ecosystem portfolio and deliver valuable capabilities
to our customers."
To learn more about Elements, please visit
hexagon.com/products/elements.
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About Hexagon
Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions,
combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies. We are
putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality and
safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public
sector, and mobility applications.
Our technologies are shaping production and people related
ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous –
ensuring a scalable, sustainable future. Hexagon's Manufacturing
Intelligence division provides solutions that use data from design
and engineering, production and metrology to make manufacturing
smarter. For more information, visit hexagon.com/mi.
Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 23,000
employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately
4.3bn Euro. Learn more at hexagon.com
and follow us @HexagonAB.
About Maplesoft
Maplesoft is a leading provider of high-performance
software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics. Maplesoft
Engineering Solutions provide advanced tools and services for
system simulation, calculation management, and systems engineering,
helping organisations maximise the power of their engineering
knowledge so they can complete their projects quickly and
successfully. The Maplesoft product suite includes Maple, the
world's most powerful math engine; Maple
Flow, math software for engineering calculations; MapleSim,
the advanced system-level modeling and simulation tool; and
MapleMBSE, which supports a model-based systems engineering
approach to requirements management. Maplesoft products and
services are used in machine design, robotics, aerospace,
automotive, industrial automation, and many other fields where
engineers face complex challenges. Maplesoft is a subsidiary of
Cybernet Systems Co. Ltd.
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