MARCH 20209during product development course. Supporting common fluids, struc-tural, and thermal simulation appli-cations, it allows engineers to ex-periment with design ideas and see instant feedback from their chang-es. It therefore radically lessens the need for persistent, laborious testing on expensive physical prototypes and consequently cuts the total de-velopment time and cost. Additive ManufacturingThe design engineer today needs to build optimized, lighter and smarter products to stay relevant. With ad-ditive manufacturing, the process of manufacturing itself can introduce changes in the final shape, and sim-ulation can help to factor in those changes. Therefore, there is a need to use appropriate tools like 3D De-sign products that enable CAD mod-eling and simulation for all design engineers. Simulation tools are today built on direct modeling technology that makes creating, repairing or editing geometry easy, whether you are involved in concept modeling, reverse engineering scanned data or preparing a model for manufactur-ing or simulation.Digital Twin and SimulationDuring operation, to fully compre-hend a machine, the comprehensive virtual model must be connected to actual operational data from the ma-chine. The virtual model is the digital twin. Digital twins eliminate the si-los, errors inadequacies, doubts and enormous resources while working with models. Engineering simulation forms a key component of the digital twin. When simulation is added to the digital twin system, environments that are otherwise difficult to view and evaluate becomes evident. The product performance can be max-imized by scheduling predictive maintenance, determining root of performance issues, and evaluat-ing various other aspects. Simula-tion allows accurate prediction of how the changes in machines will affect it during its life cycle. Sim-ulation is thus the lone method to completely appreciate the digital twin technology.On-Product Simulation From cars, airplanes and trains to consumer electronics, machinery and healthcare solutions, products have been transformed through simulation. Product simulation ob-served single characteristics: one physics, one component, one de-sign. Now we explore multiple designs at the system level with interactions across several physi-cal and digital realms. Simulation is being utilized not only for de-sign validation, but also from early ideation through manufacturing, operations and maintenance.We are thus viewing an ultimate revolution in engineering and prod-uct development. The advantages of simulation when in vehicles are well-known. As on-track testing is expen-sive and not always feasible, simula-tion is what makes design changes easier and makes it a reality. Autonomous cars, for example, have to be out on the open road and be able to adapt to all the uncertain-ties that come along with it. It has to have the ability to do this on par with or even better than humans in order to be considered safe. What is required is over 8 billion miles of test driving. How does a company do so much testing? The only solution is simulation if one is hopeful of re-leasing them anytime soon. The vali-dation of the software that is needed by the manufacturers can be done only in this manner. If one depends exclusively on AI for autonomous cars then one won't be able to assign or trace the neu-ral networks of AI to safety require-ments. Simulation actually trains and tests artificial intelligence. The safe-ty gates of autonomous car devel-opers are what decide if the outputs of the AI system disrupt any safety standards. If positive, then it initiates a course of action based on a safety plan. This system needs to be vali-dated and the only way to do that in less time is through simulation.There is a seamless integration of design and simulation for all en-gineers now that help them to ex-plore ideas and concepts in greater depth. It provides a single platform for simulation-driven product de-velopment. The technology is easy to learn and use and offers unpar-alleled adaptability, speed and ac-curacy to enhance the final design. Simulation is thus the shortest route between design and reality and it helps companies in bringing inno-vative and safer products into the market faster. Simulation solutions involving any area of physics, be it structures, fluids, electronics or combinations of these, will provide engineers with the speed that is needed to stick to these goals that seem to be almost impossible to reach
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