Smart Manufacturing
Virtual simulation of manufacturing processes presents an efficient approach to product design and its manufacturing process development, as well as for the existing product and process optimization.
Reduce development time and costs by adopting a simulation-driven approach and limiting trial-and-error physical experiments.
The welding process simulation provides detailed insight into temperature fields, microstructural evolution or residual stresses and distortions.
The analysis is applicable to a wide range of welding processes, including:
- arc welding
- laser beam welding
- EBW
- FSW
- resistance welding
Contact our engineers for consultancy support and leverage simulation to optimize your welding procedures and tooling:
- control distortions
- minimize residual stresses and prevent defects
- achieve the desired material properties
The heat treatment process simulation provides detailed insight into temperature fields, diffusion of chemical elements, microstructural evolution, residual stresses or distortions.
The analysis is applicable to a wide range of welding processes, including:
- Through hardening
- Case-hardening
- Nitriding
- Surface hardening
- Annealing
- Induction HT
Contact our engineers for consultancy support and leverage simulation to optimize your welding procedures and tooling:
- control distortions
- minimize residual stresses and prevent defects
- achieve the desired microstructure and material properties
The sheet-metal forming and forging process simulation provides detailed insight into temperature fields, diffusion of chemical elements, microstructural evolution, residual stresses or distortions.
The analysis is applicable to a wide range of stamping processes, including:
- cold stamping
- hot forming
- stretch forming
- table- and roll-hemming
- roll forming
- flex forming
- rubber pad forming
- incremental forming
- super plastic forming
- tube bending and tube hydroforming
- open-die forging
- die forging
Contact our engineers for consultancy support and leverage simulation to optimize your welding procedures and tooling:
- control distortions
- minimize residual stresses and prevent defects
- achieve the desired microstructure and material properties
Advanced Casting Process Simulation for Precision and Quality
Casting process simulation provides detailed insight into mold filling, solidification, temperature evolution, porosity formation, residual stresses, distortions and final material properties.
Virtual validation helps manufacturers reduce development risk, optimize tooling and achieve right-first-time production.
The analysis is applicable to a wide range of casting processes, including:
- Sand casting
- Gravity casting
- High-pressure die casting (HPDC)
- Low-pressure die casting (LPDC)
- Investment casting
- Permanent mold casting
- Shell molding
- Multi-cycle die casting thermal analysis
- Vacuum-assisted casting
- Core-based casting processes
Contact our engineers, get support and leverage simulation to optimize your casting processes and tooling:
- optimize filling, gating and feeding systems
- minimize shrinkage porosity, gas porosity and inclusions
- prevent misruns, cold shuts and hot spots
- control residual stresses, cracks and distortions
- improve dimensional accuracy and repeatability
- achieve the desired microstructure and mechanical properties
- reduce scrap rates, tooling iterations and development cost
- shorten time-to-production through virtual process validation