MCADCafe Industry Predictions for 2019 – ARAS

For decades, simulation has been the exclusive domain of experts, with simulation tools, processes and the experts often isolated within silos in the organization. This has limited the impact of simulation on the product lifecycle process.

Recently however, a wide range of corporate strategic priorities including Digital Thread traceability within the PLM backbone, Digital Twin analysis for predictive maintenance and design improvements, the democratization of simulation, design space exploration, generative design, and the quality assessment of additive manufactured products have necessitated a broader, more automated approach to simulation. At their core, each of these advanced technologies requires mainstreaming simulation automation and data management to work robustly across significant (and unpredictable) design changes and entire product families that share common functional/architectural characteristics. The current, manual, inefficient and silo’ed simulation process must be replaced by “lights-out” automation that ensures predictable, accurate and verifiable simulation results, at all levels of model fidelity from systems models to 3-D models.

Increasing simulation management complexity requires an open, vendor-neutral approach that is tool-independent across multiple disciplines, levels of model fidelity, and a diverse set of data types. In 2019, we will see more effective, enterprise-wide, vendor- and tool-neutral Simulation Process and Data Management (SPDM) capabilities, as simulation becomes a more integral part of open and extensible PLM platforms.

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