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Fluid, thermal, noise and vibration analysis software
News Release from: nCode International | Subject: ICE-flow DesignLife
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 15 May 2006
Test and CAE come together to boost
efficiency
nCode is launching its next generation fatigue analysis solution, ICE-flow DesignLife at this year's Automotive Testing Exhibition in Stuttgart.
nCode is launching its next generation fatigue analysis solution, ICE-flow DesignLife at this year's Automotive Testing Exhibition in Stuttgart DesignLife is the first fully integrated CAE and test environment for advanced durability engineering, creating a more streamlined and efficient workflow and enabling the rapid prediction of fatigue hotspots and product lifetime without compromising on power, flexibility or realism of the results
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 7 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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nCode, the leading supplier of end-to-end systems for the collection, analysis and management of engineering data, has developed DesignLife to provide sophisticated analysis functionality within an intuitive graphical environment - suitable for both advanced and general users.
Fatigue specialists will like the sophisticated analysis features - such as the ability to intelligently reduce complex areas of the design for more detailed analysis, performing multiple analyses in a single run, or linking into external programs for custom analyses, such as design optimisation.
General users will like the way that the analysis is built up graphically and that they can use pre-defined processes established by others.
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GlyphWorks 4.0 is an easy-to-use environment that enables engineers to interactively build and run analytical processes on huge multichannel datasets.
Managers will like the process repeatability, enhanced reporting which shortens the time to get to a decision, and the way that the test and CAE environments are integrated and streamlined for better group efficiency.
The easy to use interface enables advanced users to develop the most sophisticated workflow process from raw data input to automatic report generation in a fraction of the time it used to take; once developed these processes can be encapsulated for other, nonspecialists to just pick up and use.
DesignLife is compatible with the leading finite element codes and post-processors, enabling the seamless exchange of data with systems such as Nastran, Ansys and Abaqus.
DesignLife is a module of the nCode ICE-flow system, which also integrates data acquisition, data handling and process management in a web-enabled environment.
nCode Chairman, Brian Dabell, says: "DesignLife addresses some of the most pressing issues facing the automotive and other high-performance product development industries today: the need to bring better products to market faster - and to do so with an ever-reducing team of engineers".
"DesignLife streamlines the workflow from the test department for loads analysis and processing, and the Analysis department for model preparation and lifetime estimation".
"Uniquely, DesignLife shows the entire workflow from end-to-end, and in trials some customers reported a 90% reduction in time in certain key areas".
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