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Industry: Electronics & High Tech

  • Pektron – Accelerating Bespoke Automotive Electronics Development

    Challenges Evaluating thermal limits for highly dense PCB designs within aggressively short one-week turnaround windows. Optimizing cost-effective hardware housing materials without compromising strict automotive heat management requirements. Validating custom testing fixtures to ensure strict compliance with the rigorous mechanical resonance standards of a UKAS laboratory. Results Iterated designs digitally to identify thermal bottlenecks, achieving simulation…

  • FFE – Code-Compliant Ventilation for Healthcare Projects

    Challenge Understand the dispersion of exhaust gases from multiple sources and evaluate re-entrainment risk under a range of environmental conditions Ensure compliance of exhaust stack and ventilation design against ASHRAE 62.1 guidelines Validate whether infrastructure can safely support upgrades Results Used CFD simulation to verify that the exhaust plumes did not impinge on any of…

  • One Stop Systems – Cooling Edge Computing Hardware

    Challenge Optimize performance of critical edge computing devices Naturally cool high heat-generating electronics enclosures Explore a large number of heat exchanger designs early in the design process Results Used the fan-performance curve tool in SimScale to simulate dozens of fan types accurately. Developed a novel and proprietary heat exchanger design by leveraging the unlimited parallel…

  • beamlink – A Complete Redesign of Telecoms Towers

    Challenge 3.5 billion people don’t have internet. The problem is a traditional cell tower, which is big, costly, and power-hungry. beamlink wanted to design a completely novel cell/telecoms tower to address this issue. Results Completely redesigned what a traditional telecoms tower is The beamlink model cost 1% of a normal telecom tower and consumed the…

  • Luke Roberts – Thermal Design for the Perfect Pendant Lamp

    Challenge Evaluate multiple design variants of its product developments quickly without extensive physical prototyping. Outsourcing thermal simulations causes a slow workflow and creates bottlenecks in the overall development process. Using traditional simulation tools (on-premise) would be quite costly due to the required hardware and licenses. Results All thermal simulation work for LR was brought in-house…

  • PHIX – Photon-Integrated Transceivers for Unmanned Aircraft

    About Phix PHIX offers assembly services and contract manufacturing for photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and MEMS. They build optoelectronic modules based on all major PIC technology platforms, such as Indium Phosphide, Silicon Photonics, Silicon Nitride, and Planar Lightwave Circuits, specializing in chip-to-chip hybrid integration, coupling to fiber arrays, and interfacing of DC and RF electrical…

  • Blu Wireless – Pioneering mmWave Technology with Simulation

    About Blu Wireless Transforming global connectivity infrastructure, Blu Wireless is a pioneer in mmWave technology and communications, and a leader in wireless networking equipment for multi-gigabit connectivity. Blu Wireless helps its partners and customers harness the power of multi-gigabit connectivity with their high-performance, scalable, and flexible 5G mmWave equipment and apply it to complex environments…

  • LUMENION – Optimizing High-Temperature Thermal Storage

    About Lumenion LUMENION GmbH is a high-temperature thermal storage company whose mission is to store low-cost renewable energy and deliver heat to industry, agriculture, and private homes. LUMENION is a decarbonization company offering a solution for zero-carbon industrial-grade process heat. With today’s technology, it is possible to make effective and efficient use of renewable energy…

  • Kichler – All-Cloud Product Development for LED Lighting

    Challenge Optimize LED heat sink design. Reduce component material mass while maintaining thermal performance. Results 44% component material savings. 3 weeks of time saved on physical prototype creation. The All-Cloud Product Development Stack As a large organization with multiple distributed engineering teams, Kichler is moving towards adopting an entirely cloud-based engineering software stack. This will…

  • Samco – Increasing Product Lifetime Tenfold

    Providing Engineers Easy Access to Simulation Samco develops and manufactures a range of mission-critical deposition, etch, and surface treatment/cleaning systems used in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. Semiconductor device manufacturers (the fabs or foundries) can’t afford any production downtime or reduced production capacity due to unreliable equipment. Any such downtime is costly and can disrupt entire…

  • Easee – Improving Charging Robot Thermal Performance

    Challenge Improving the thermal performance of the Easee Charging Robot. Reducing physical prototyping. Results Faster idea optimization and exploration. Reduced time to market. Cloud-native CAD & CAE at EASEE Andrzej Tunkiel is the Mechanical Team Lead at Easee and is involved with both product development and manufacturing engineering. He is technically focused on the thermal…

  • ANYbotics – Developing an Autonomous Ex-Proof Legged Robot

    The Engineering Team at ANYbotics Dr. Alessandro Scafato, Development Engineer at ANYbotics, is a simulation specialist and has a Ph.D. from Loughborough University, UK. He leads the simulation and analysis capabilities at ANYbotics and acts as an internal consultant to the broader engineering and product development teams. The core analysis team provides detailed simulation and…