Industry: Machinery & Industrial Equipment
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ITW – Accelerating Fastening Component Development
Challenge Physical prototyping and poor design concepts cost time and money. ITW Automotive, a leading global supplier of auto parts, deployed simulation at an early stage in the design process to disqualify poor design concepts earlier and accelerate development. Results 10% reduction in R&D costs. 85% reduction in insertion force. Engineering simulation deployed in the…
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Power Maxed Racing – Optimizing Intercooler Airflow
About Power Maxed Racing Power Maxed Racing (PMR) is a motorsport engineering team specializing in vehicle engineering, suspension dynamics, and motorsport management. This core expertise has enabled Power Maxed Racing to win multiple races and titles in the last five years. Whether road, track, or race car, from basic setup to fully built race winners,…
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BÖHME – Making Designs Production-Ready
Manufacturers Save Time and Cost Using Simulation to Make Designs Production-Ready Mikkel Böhme, founder and Managing Director at BÖHME , has over 20 years of experience in the plastics industry from injection molding, plastics molding, additive manufacturing, and 3D prototyping. Customers need design insight at the early stages when verifying the performance of their products…
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Energy Machines – Optimizing Vertical Wind Turbine Designs
About Energy Machines Energy Machines™ is a leader in the design, implementation, and operation of integrated energy systems for buildings. Buildings are a growing climate problem, accounting for over 28% of global CO₂ emissions. Energy Machines is building a future in which buildings accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy by turning every building into…
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Hazleton Pumps – Generating Performance Curves in Minutes
The Challenge Rotating machinery design and analysis has high, and often non-negotiable, requirements for efficiency, durability, and reliability. With this goal in mind, the rotating machinery industry has widely adopted digital prototyping to explore a larger design space than is otherwise possible. But for too long, companies have been restricted in deriving the maximum benefits…
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ATAG – Accelerating Flue Gas Heat Recovery Design
THE CHALLENGE Normally small boilers are on-demand heating, so they use flue gasses to preheat water coming in, which in turn can improve efficiencies from 83% up to 98% when in use for things such as taking a shower. During a cost-saving project for their I-series boiler system, ATAG noticed a shift in acoustic performance…
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Hoenle – Accelerating UV Lamp Cooling Simulation
Challenges Limited in-house compute power and an on-premise simulation tool couldn’t resolve the turbulent airflow needed for a new, high-power, air-cooled UV lamp. Outsourcing simulation work to third-party contractors meant waiting one to two weeks for even minor design tweaks. A meeting-dependent, linear workflow with contractors made it slow to explore multiple design variants. New…
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Brainbox Matrix Services – Validating a WIG Craft Design
The Challenge Brainbox Matrix Services turned to SimScale when they had a project that required them to study the behavior of a wing in ground effect for a marine craft (WIG). They decided to use computer-aided engineering (CAE) in the process based on their knowledge of its cost advantage, shorter research period, and more accurate…
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Spearpoint Engineering – Cloud-Based FEA for Grain Silo Design
The Challenge SAB Brewery used the silos to store wet spent grain in their operation. Ideally, these silos would have been fabricated from stainless steel or have been lined inside to prevent corrosion from the water. The cost to fabricate the silos from this grade of steel was a limitation, and thus the silos needed…
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Paris HVAC – Designing a Safe Fume Hood Ventilation System
THE DESIGN CHALLENGE Currently a one-man-operation, Paris HVAC owner and founder Benoît Mallet began using SimScale in 2018 when he found himself with an interesting case at hand. Benoît, an expert in all things HVAC, had the challenge of ensuring safety standards could be maintained in a particular kind of laboratory room housing an exhaust…
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Explotechnik – Evaluating a Piston Design with FEA
The Challenge At Explotechnik AG, some of their solutions require a high-velocity piston to generate a shockwave. In order to slow down this piston, it needs to hit against a hardened steel surface. This design requires some testing before a physical prototype can be approved for production. Before using CAE and SimScale, Explotechnik struggled getting…
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Techtree Engineering – Sharpening a Competitive Edge with FEA
The Challenge Downhole tools for oil drilling and well servicing are often pushed to the extreme. Operating conditions include pressure, load, temperature, and corrosive environments, while at the same time demanding designs call for the tools to be more compact. Prior to using SimScale, TechTree Engineering was limited to just using linear analysis, forcing them…
