Research Report: Simulation-Driven Design for Manufacturing (SDfM) Experiences
Product engineers are under consistent pressure to reduce the costs, improve the quality and increase the throughput of manufacturing processes. This fast-paced environment is not well suited for trial-and-error manufacturing engineering.
How are engineers responding to these challenges? Is simulation and simulation-driven design for manufacturing (SDfM) well established across the industry? When simulation is deployed, does it deliver on the promises of reducing costs while improving throughput and quality? And what are the barriers to the adoption of simulation during the early stages of product development?
In this 2021 survey report conducted by Engineering.com, we discuss those questions and discover:
• Top design priorities
• Top benefits of SDfM
• Top barriers to expanding and adopting SDfM
• Risks to staying competitive in the market
Technical Document
Using Altair Software for Manufacturing
Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for many traditional, subtractive, and additive manufacturing processes. Users can validate designs early in the manufacturing process with the simplicity and affordability of the simulation software, as well as use optimization technology with specific manufacturing constraints to design better, more efficient products.
Learn more at altair.com/manufacturing-applications.
Use Cases
Altair Inspire Extrude - Polymer Extrusion
Altair Inspire Extrude is an easy-to-use tool for simulating metal extrusion, polymer extrusion, and friction stir welding processes to detect potential defects early in the product development phase and improve the process efficiency. It uses Altair HyperXtrude solver to simulate these processes. In this short video we'll demonstrate a typical workflow for polymer extrusion simulation.
Use Cases
Driving Design from Concept to Manufacturing with Inspire
Altair Inspire has rapidly advanced from a topology optimization tool for designers to a design environment spanning industrial design, structural simulation and optimization, motion analysis and manufacturing simulation.
Conference Presentations
Altair for Manufacturing Applications
Altair offers a unique set of simulation tools to evaluate product feasibility, optimize the manufacturing process, and run virtual try-outs for many traditional, subtractive, and additive manufacturing processes.e
Brochures
Design for Extrusion
Driving designs that are cognizant of the downstream manufacturing processes
Increasing manufacturing costs and stiff competition coupled with low profit margins are posing tremendous challenges to extrusion companies, especially automotive and aerospace industries. One way the leading companies stay ahead of the competition is by reducing the product development time and production costs through virtual testing. Design engineers and analysts use CAE software to analyze and validate die designs and thereby reduce/eliminate costly die trials.
This webinar explains how extrusion simulation framework provides an easy to use CAE environment to:
- Validate extrusion die designs
- Optimize process conditions
- Identify potential defects and correct them before becoming critical problems
Webinars
Altair Inspire Extrude Datasheet
Altair Inspire Extrude is a simulation environment designed to help extrusion companies meet the ever increasing demands to produce complex profiles with tight tolerances, quality surface finishes, and high strength properties at reduced cost. Inspire Extrude is a virtual press where users can visualize material flow and temperature inside a die during extrusion and make necessary changes to ensure balanced flow, while identifying and eliminating product defects.
Brochures
Inspire Extrude Polymer Workflow - Step 1
Step 1: Import Load and Extract Volumes
Tutorials
Inspire Extrude Polymer Workflow - Step 2
Step 2: Material Selection and Organizing Layers
Tutorials
Inspire Extrude Polymer Workflow - Step 3
Step 3: Process Data and Run Analysis
Tutorials
Inspire Extrude Polymer Workflow - Step 4
Step 4: Run Post Processing
Tutorials