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Industry 4.0 Digitalization and its implications for CAE

Jan-Leuridan_Siemens_25pct.jpgDr. Jan Leuridan at the STAR Global conference


Earlier this month Dr. Leuridan spoke at the STAR Global conference for STAR-CCM+ users in Berlin. During this session he explained the rationale for the purchase of CD-Adapco and also laid out the vision and implication of digitalization for CAE.

What is Industrie 4.0 and what is meant by digitalization? Here is a good video that provides a good primer on this. But broadly digitalization is everywhere around us. I just look around my desk and I see evidence of it. Forget the cellphone, just think of your desk phone, 20 years ago it was unchanged from 20 years prior (albeit with a voice messaging system), yet now it’s all VOIP. 

Transformation of something as mundane as a desk phone shows how pervasive digitalization is and how manufacturers of all stripes have had to adapt. Adapting means changing and evolving their designs but this also means adapting how they validate these designs. It used to be sufficient to verify how designs performed the function they were designed for. But products now are more complex and often perform a system of functions, thus it’s necessary to predict how the product will perform across a spectrum of behaviours.

You can find more by reading this article from Desktop Engineering here.

Ganesh Sethuraman

Responsible for Simcenter 3D Simulation solutions (Simcenter 3D - formerly NX CAE, NX Nastran, Teamcenter for Simulation, LMS Virtual.lab, LMS Samtech Samcef) Throughout my career gone through different roles of technical sales, services and support both with CAD & CAE. From my past my expertise was more structural analysis though these days more thermal & fluid analysis. Grew up in Europe before coming to the States for university and started working. From there went to Japan for 10 years all with Siemens PLM and now in Canada.

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This article first appeared on the Siemens Digital Industries Software blog at https://blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com/simcenter/industry-4-0-digitalization-and-its-implications-for-cae/