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Analysis and simulation solution from IBM
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| Computer aided engineering—vehicle design
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Weight reduction, optimum material selection and behavior under high strain rate—all are important subjects when designing products. Analysis and simulation solutions from IBM can help you quantify the robustness of a vehicle design and gain insight into the most likely behavior of an automobile—before the vehicle is built.
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| Visualization and management of complex data
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With years of research and development across multiple industries, we can leverage
technology from across IBM to build analysis and simulation solutions for your
business.
- IBM
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systems—regardless of your architectural preference (IBM
zSeries®, IBM
pSeries®, IBM
iSeries™, IBM
xSeries® or Linux™), IBM
systems can deliver the support you require.
- Approximately 50% of all vehicles made last year were designed with CATIA,
software built exclusively for IBM by Dassault Systemes.
- IBM has a unique consulting group called Virtual Product Innovation focused on automotive design. They can perform the first step of a large implementation:
an assessment based on a benchmarking model developed with the London School
of Economics.
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| Advanced innovation capabilities
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Analysis and simulation solutions from IBM can handle complex automotive industry
processes. Hardware can include:
- IBM pSeries 690—a high-performance computing platform for running automobile
simulation applications.
Components can include:
- ABAQUS—to measure stress analysis—simulates the physical response
of automobile designs, including:
- Bodies to load
- Temperature
- Contact
- Impact
- Environmental conditions
- MSC.Nastran analysis software—to measure noise, vibration and harshness, major warranty issues—analyzes and improves simple components to
complex structures and systems, including:
- Computer aided stress
- Vibration Heat transfer
- Acoustic
- Aeroelasticity
- LS-DYNA—for crash simulation—a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems, including:
- Crashworthiness simulations
- Occupant safety analyses
- Metal forming
- Metal cutting
- Fluid-structure interaction
- FLUENT—for computational fluid dynamics (CFD)—measures the fluid flow
physics of your virtual prototype and outputs a prediction of fluid dynamics.
CFD also predicts:
- Heat transfer
- Mass in perspiration or dissolution
- Phase change in freezing or boiling
- Chemical reaction in combustion
- Mechanical movement in an impeller turning
- Stress or deformation
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| Reduce costs, improve turnaround time
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DaimlerChrysler Mercedes Technology Center simulates physical aerodynamic behavior of new cars in the product development state using the analysis and simulation solution from IBM. Using the IBM Regatta pSeries 690, external aerodynamic simulation delivers faster and cheaper results than wind tunnel testing—saving weeks.
Adam Opel AG specializes in the development and manufacturing of passenger cars for General Motor Corporation. Using pSeries 690 servers as part of an analysis and simulation solution, Opel has improved its turnaround time by more than 300 percent for large scale LS-Dyna jobs. The LS-Dyna computer aided engineering analysis software used by the pSeries serves enables Opel to model crash simulations of cars on the computer. This has resulted in a large decrease of job runtime, saving the customer money.
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| Flexibility and scalability help reduce costs
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Analysis and simulation solutions are designed to lower your total cost of ownership.- Scale to grow with your needs and build on your investments.
- Reduce component complexity, while at the same time offering tailored components.
- Reduce the expense of prototype construction and testing.
- Dramatically reduce concept to launch time.
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