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Industry: Machinery & Industrial Equipment

  • Dolav – Strengthening Box Pallet Designs

    Challenge Ensuring box pallets withstand high loads in varied storage conditions. Quickly evaluating to meet durability and compliance requirements. Balancing the need for rapid design iterations while meeting global safety and transport standards. Results Added reinforcements in the design that increased the box pallet’s load capacity by 50%. Reduced reliance on physical prototypes, significantly shortening…

  • 3P Innovation – Accelerating Cryovial Machine Design

    Challenge Design of the cryoFIL® automated cryovial machine. Carefully design the airflow inside the machine to avoid any contamination of the open vials. CFD simulations of multiple operating points to evaluate air turbulence, stagnation, and unwanted mixing. Results Employed parallel simulations in SimScale to rapidly evaluate many design variants. Early stage design confidence using simulation…

  • Nantoo – Revolutionizing Leaf Waste Collection

    Challenge To rethink the concept of leaf waste Develop a novel product based on vacuum technology that can collect high throughput of leaves, reduce their volume by 90% and, package and seal for composting all in a single step. To achieve the above using energy efficient motors, noiseless operation and battery-powered. Results Developed the first…

  • Griffon Hoverwork – Hovercraft Design for Marine Environments

    Challenge Design hovercraft for challenging marine environments. Evaluate rudder and propeller performance using CFD. Calculate limits of rudder loading for various operating conditions. Results Simulated the propeller and rudder CAD model using CFD in SimScale. Finalized rudder loading using CFD and FEA for critical use cases. Significantly reduced physical prototyping costs by simulating multiple CAD…

  • Pura – Simulating Air Diffusion Technology

    Challenge Design a novel battery-powered car fragrance diffuser that is not dependent on car ventilation vents Evaluate multiple fan/blower types for quiet operation Ensure fragrance air diffusion evenly throughout a car Validate simulation results with experimental data Results The Car Pro portable air diffuser was designed using SimScale to optimize airflow, pressure drop, and structural…

  • Jesa – Optimizing Wastewater Treatment Tanks

    Challenge Design a new tertiary water treatment tank for an existing wastewater plan in limited space conditions Avoid recirculation, dead zones, and poor performance of the mixing tanks in a novel triangular-shaped tank Reduce capital and operating costs for the new tank Results Avoided short-circuiting, reduced dead zones by 30% (Compared to existing designs) Lowered…

  • Hephae – Unlocking Geothermal Energy

    Challenge Unlock unconventional geothermal energy Develop high-temperature-resistant sensors and electronics for deep hot rock drilling Evaluate shock and vibrations on drilling tools Make local geothermal energy cost-effective Results Applied cloud-native simulation to analyze thermal, structural, and vibration effects of deep hot rock drilling Successfully developed heat-resistant circuit boards using novel heat dissipation technology Proved the…

  • Cloud9 Surf Foils – Designing Championship-Winning Hydrofoils

    Challenge Design high-performance hydrofoils without physical prototyping Optimize hydrodynamic and structural performance using simulation Develop championship-winning products recognized globally for high performance by expert users and foilers Results Reduced the need for costly physical prototyping using validated simulation results in SimScale Performed side-by-side CFD and FEA simulations in parallel in the cloud A Cloud9 Surf…

  • Vale – Boosting Mining Equipment Reliability with Digital Twins

    Challenge Ensure reliable performance of mining equipment operating in harsh conditions Safety loading calculations on a magnetic separator conveyor belt using FEA Predict the lifetime performance of industrial equipment Results Created a digital twin of large complex magnetic separator units with moving parts using SimScale Reduced physical prototype and manufacturing costs Successfully predicted failure point…

  • Scanmudring – From Design to Depth in Subsea Drilling

    Challenge Improve traditional offshore cutting and dredging equipment for harder subsea clays. Rapidly design, test, and deploy a novel suction nozzle that attaches to a 40-ton offshore excavator. Improve overall drilling efficiency and productivity in a cost-sensitive industry. Results After simulating, optimizing, and fabricating the new suction nozzle, the team deployed the excavator offshore. The…

  • Methanex – Containing a Leak Without Plant Downtime

    Challenge Methanex Corporation is the world’s largest producer and supplier of methanol. A leak was detected in a methanol production plant. Traditional remediation would have involved a costly plant shutdown. Results Deployed SimScale to simulate allowable structural stresses on a new component The leak containment component was designed and optimized within 8 hours on the…

  • Nalco Water – Cutting Paper Mill Downtime by 70%

    Challenge Urgently fix the industrial water nozzle that was causing paper mill downtime Optimize a high-throughput paper mill plant operation using CFD Identify efficiency and material savings for industrial paper mills Results Having identified an improved nozzle configuration and implemented the changes, there has been a 70% reduction in unplanned downtime, which equates to a…