When Simulation Turns into Reality

Our last aircraft development, the A350 XWB, took benefit of complex advanced numerical simulations. The presentation will present the today's state of the art in terms of numerical simulation and the very latest progress Airbus did on the topic. The presentation will go through what remains to develop in the future so to make numerica simulation much more effective in the design process of an aircraft in order to:

• de-risk technical choices
• support trade-off between design solution
• prepare manufacturing stages
• reduce overall development time & cost

Speaker

Dominique Moreau, VP Head of technical authority, Airbus Operations SAS

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Industry 4.0 – How Digitalization makes Weight & Balance Process more agile and connected

In the context of Industry 4.0, most enterprise processes must become more digitized. A key element will be the evolution of the traditional product development toward a connected and highly efficient ecosystem, where humans, machines and resources communicate with each other and work collaboratively.

The weight and balance process today is a series of discrete and fragmentary steps taken by different actors: designers, weight engineers, structural engineers, suppliers, program management and executives, manufacturing. Digitization brings down walls, and the product life cycle becomes a completely integrated ecosystem that is fully transparent to all the players involved.

Weight Analytics solution provides high data consistency and transparency, standardization and automation of workflows, a powerful BI tool to support analysis and decisions making, which have a tremendous impact on process and product quality.

Speaker

Kai Thräne, Manager Weight & Balance Research & Development, Airbus Helicopters

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Design the Difference: Artemis Racing's use Simulation Driven Design Technology in Pursuit of the 2017 America's Cup

Three-time Olympic medallist and Artemis Racing Team Manager and Tactician Iain Percy will discuss the impact of technology on transforming the America's Cup competition from boats that move through the water to vessels that fly above it.

As seen in Altair's documentary Surface to Air, the application of simulation and optimization was key to this change. The world speed record for sailing was below 27 knots in 1972, and did not break the 50 knot barrier until it was achieved on a kiteboard in 2008. Today's America's Cup boats are routinely hitting speeds on tight race courses that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.

The increase in velocity enabled by advanced structural composites and on-board control systems has been a true game changer, and the future of sailing will be increasingly dependent on simulation driven design.

Speaker

Peter Bentley, Artemis Racing

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Design the Difference – Simulation Driven Innovation in Car Body Design

The automotive industry is experiencing ever increasing requirements on new vehicles from all directions, e.g. legislation, consumers and the competitive situation on the market. Still, development cycles must be shortened and development costs reduced. Early concept development is a project stage where change costs are low and design freedom large. Thus, improvement of early concept development to mature designs faster and with better design balance must be a key goal of vehicle development.

NEVS is developing a new series of pure electric drive vehicles which should cover a wide range of sizes and customer profiles. The development will cover vehicles ranging from B-segment, through D-segment to E-segment vehicles including derivates. Still, the new vehicle program has to be developed in a lean fashion with a maximum of carry-over content and a minimum of local variant specific solutions. The pure electric drive strategy removes certain contains in traditional multi-driveline developments and opens new opportunities to improve the balance between weight, attribute performance and carry-over content. In order to utilize the design freedom optimally, to optimize the architectural commonalities between platform and to use carry-over content efficiently, NEVS is working with Altair and the so-called C123 concept development support process to support concept development.

The Altair C123 process has been developed to provide concept design with fast and continuous flow of trade-off and decision information using optimization to support the early design process. This presentation will introduce C123 in general, it will discuss the challenges and possibilities of multi-vehicle and multi-platform E-vehicle development and it will show examples how challenges are addressed within the vehicle development project at NEVS.

Co-Authors: Krister Önnermalm, Jerker Lundgren, NEVS AB

Speaker

Dr. Lars Fredriksson, Business VP – Simulation Driven Innovation, Altair on behalf of NEVS

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The Secret life of Models

In the context of a rapidly changing landscape in the Energy domain, the development or upgrade of an offer that can sustain new requirements is challenged by factors such as the increase in the complexity of use cases, inter-discipline dependencies, and the emergence of different asset management approaches.

Although the core business is rarely changed drastically, the offer proposition to the end customer represents a paradigm shift. Many legacy aspects of offers will become commodities while all functionalities that are related to sustainability will gain in importance. To support these changes, Engineering Disciplines must combine continuous improvement of their core competencies with an extension of scope.

After a brief introduction of the changes in the Energy Landscape, an analysis of the life of models will be presented from the viewpoint of system engineering. Along with the paradigm shift in the use of models, the power of the multidisciplinary use of models will be approached such as for Design Space Exploration, Verification-Validation for cyber-Physical offer or maintenance purposes.

One of the key success factors of this silent but strong evolution is the correct usage of models. This change in how models are used can be quite subtle. It is all about the secret life of models.

Speaker

Gael Salles, Director Computer Aided Product Engineering Technology, Schneider Electric

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To the moon with AM – optimization, space and everything in between

Increasing the performance of a system is a constant challenge engineers in all application areas face. This challenge specifically important in the aerospace world where weight reduction is one of the key factors defining the success of a project.

Israeli AirSpace Industry (IAI) is facing such a challenge in the development of a satellite planned to carry out a moon exploration mission. To achieve an optimal performance new numerical and manufacturing tools very adopted in the project. Optimization and analysis tools from Altair Engineering open a whole new range of lightweight, robust a deficient design concepts along with an accurate and advanced capability of structural analysis.

Manufacturing of these innovative designs is possible thanks to the capabilities of ALM. However, the novice process of ALM manufactured parts for aerospace application hold a challenge of validating the reliability and repeatability of the manufacturing process itself.

In this work, I will share some of the challenges that we at IAI is facing in the implementation of the optimization and ALM technologies in our design process, to do so I will show two study cases presenting the design process, the setting for the manufacturing process and the way we qualified the final part.

Speaker

Yoram Malka, Head of Mechanical Engineering Department Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd

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Vehicle Concept and Structure of the new Opel Ampera-e

The new Opel Ampera-e is a milestone towards the future of electric mobility - a vehicle suitable for daily usage with a range of up to 500km at a reasonable price. The car offers fun to drive, space for 5 passengers and a fast re-charging capability.

One of the biggest challenges during the vehicle development was the integration of the RESS (Rechargeable Energy Storage System) with 60kWh capacity into the car - the large battery pack with the surrounding electrical components needed to be packaged into the vehicle, attached to the body structure and protected during crash events in an efficient way. Another difficult task was to bring the overall vehicle mass down as much as possible - this was enabled by consequent application of CAE including design and gage optimization as well as intelligent use of high strength steels and aluminum.

Speaker

Dr. Henning Holzmann, Director GME Vehicle CAE & Dr. Boris Künkler, Supervisor Body CAE & Optimization, Adam Opel GmbH

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