1. Overcoming the prototyping bottleneck using design analysis

2. AgendaAgenda What is Prototyping and why the bottleneck? What is Design Analysis and how it helps reduce the prototyping bottleneck? 3D Design analysis in five simple steps Q&A

3. What is Prototyping? Creation of simple mockups or fully functional physical products to check performance before the product goes into final production DesignPrototype testingProduction

4. Prototyping Bottleneck Extends design cycle Expensive Leads to non-optimized designs DesignPrototype testingProduction

5. What is Design Analysis? Design analysis is ability to simulate prototype-test iterations and optimize designs on computer without building physical prototypes

6. What is Design Analysis? Design analysis is ability to simulate prototype-test iterations and optimize designs on computer without building physical prototypes Design Final testing ProductionAnalysis

7. Scope of Design Analysis Reduce Prototypes – Does this design work? – Does this design behave the way I think it does? Improve product quality, innovative designs Relative Merit – Which of these candidate designs appears to be the best? – Weed out the lesser designs Failure Analysis – Traditional usage of analysis – Requires some level of expertise

8. Prototype Testing Vs Design Analysis IndustryAerospaceAutomotiveElectronics Ratio Cost (Test/Analysis) >5003-52-4 Ratio Time (Test/Analysis) >103-43 Prototypes Required Without Analysis N/A>12010-15 Source: D.H. Brown, Enhancing CAE Effectiveness, MCAE, CAD/CAM, February 1999

9. Why Invest in Design Analysis? Improve Product Quality67% Avoid Field Failures59% Reduce Number of Prototypes56% Send an email to sjain@solidworks.com to obtain a free copy of this reportsjain@solidworks.com

10. Comments From Companies Using Design Analysis Don Bartlett, Senior Staff Engineer, Fanuc Robotics, NA “The biggest advantage was timesaving over our previous methods. COSMOS is so fast and easy to use that we were able to make the 20 analysis runs that were required to understand the problem and solve it" Greg Dato, Kinemetrics Inc. Pasadena, California "With COSMOS we saved at least 2 months and thousands of dollars in wasted hardware. By using COSMOS integrated with our CAD system, we can electronically test multiple designs, then typically build just one prototype." Karsten Hoffman, Project Leader, Dräger, Germany “Using COSMOSWorks means that we can run calculations on the various design approaches during the design stage easily and quickly. We can then compare them against one another. Otherwise, we would have to either send the calculation work outside or build real prototypes so that we can carry out precise measurements

11. AgendaAgenda What is Prototyping and why the bottleneck? What is Design Analysis and how it helps reduce the prototyping bottleneck? 3D Design analysis in five simple steps Q&A

12. Design Analysis Process 1. Geometry definition. 2. Define component materials. 3. Define physical situation with boundary conditions. 4. Mesh & run the analysis (solve the system of equations). 5. View and evaluate the results. Modify, Update, Refine

13. Example – Analyzing a Connecting Arm You will learn: Starting COSMOSWorks Learning the basic steps of design analysis Assessing the safety of the design Change the geometry and recompute the stresses. Documenting your project

14. COSMOS - Complete Analysis Portfolio Static Vibration Thermal Nonlinear Flow Motion Optimization Electromagnetic Post-dynamics

15. AgendaAgenda What is Prototyping and why the bottleneck? What is Design Analysis and how it helps reduce the prototyping bottleneck? 3D Design analysis in five simple steps Q&A

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