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This magazine article, Are We Ready for Digital Twins? Engineering.com Audience Survey of Perceptions and Readiness, is from 2020. NAFEMS & ASSESS members can view / download when logged in. The ASSESS Initiative is a broad reaching multi-industry initiative with a primary goal to facilitate a revolution of enablement that will vastly increase the availability and utility of Engineering Simulation, leading to significantly increased business benefits across the full spectrum of industries, applications and users. Since June 2022, ASSESS as been part of NAFEMS....more
Acquisitions continue to occur almost weekly inthe CAE space. Big ones, as Synopsys gobbles up Ansys and Siemens snaps up Altair, but also smaller ones, as traditional CAE vendors expand their offerings by adding physics, visualization, data/processes management, and other capabilities. We're also seeing outsiders buy into this steadily growing, lucrative space, especially as new entrants promise AI will revolutionize design and validation processes. This article appeared in the July 2025 Issue of BENCHMARK....more
NAFEMS Americas hosted its biennial regional conference, formerly known as CAASE, on June 21-23, 2022, face-to-face, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana! The NAFEMS Americas Regional Conference 2022 (NRC22 Americas) brought together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies in an open forum, unlike any other, sharing experiences, discussing relevant trends, discovering common themes, and exploring future issues, including: What is the future for engineering analysis and simulation? Where will it lead us in the next decade? How can designers and engineers realize its full potential? What are the business, technological,...more
This ASSESS Theme Positioning Paper: Digital Twins, is from 2020. NAFEMS & ASSESS members can view / download when logged in. The ASSESS Initiative is a broad reaching multi-industry initiative with a primary goal to facilitate a revolution of enablement that will vastly increase the availability and utility of Engineering Simulation, leading to significantly increased business benefits across the full spectrum of industries, applications and users. Since June 2022, ASSESS has been part of NAFEMS....more
Practical guidelines & common issues Common basic issues This sub-unit provides a useful summary list of what might be regarded as bad practice, common mistakes, pitfalls and rookie errors. This will hopefully provide a useful list of what to avoid, for the novice user and perhaps bring a smile to the face of the more experienced analyst, who may have come across some of these in their travels. Down-right illegal practices are not included here, although one or two listed may be heading in that direction. Some of the so-called basic issues may perhaps be pardonable when working in a team environment off course i.e. in cases when someone who does know what they are doing is directing you and...more
Credibility is Everything (Or How to Get the Most from Verification and Validation…) 5-minute read Sinothile Baloyi - March 31st 2022 “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” - Thomas Edison Sure, and well done for persisting Edison, but how much did that cost in time and materials? Yikes! Luckily, we have come a long way since, and nowadays we can simulate and perform those 10,000 iterations within much, much shorter time frames and without the cost of physical testing. Great for the company’s finances and the environment, not to mention the engineers – after all, who really wants to repeat the same physical test 10,000 times? But – there’s always a but! – how...more
As companies drive towards virtual product development and complete digital descriptions of their products and manufacturing systems, simulation becomes increasingly important. A company’s actual capability to do simulation well, so it is repeatable, reliable, and robust, can become an important factor in quality, cost and time to market, and overall competitiveness. However, research shows that many companies are failing to achieve an effective (optimum) return on their investment in and commitment to simulation. In this opinion piece, Dr. Keith Meintjes of CIMdata—an internationally recognized authority on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), proposes that simulation can be demonstrably superior...more
The webinar recording can be viewed by clicking this link. The password can be obtained via the member download button. Overview As companies drive towards virtual product development and complete digital descriptions of their products and manufacturing systems, simulation becomes increasingly important. A company’s actual capability to do simulation well, so it is repeatable, reliable, and robust, can become an important factor in quality, cost and time to market, and overall competitiveness. However, research shows that many companies are failing to achieve an effective (optimum) return on their investment in and commitment to simulation. In this opinion piece, Dr. Keith Meintjes of CIMdata—an...more
As part of our focus on Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), David Quinn spoke with Louise Wright, Head of Science for Data Science and the Head of Digital Metrology at The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and chair of the NAFEMS Computational Structural Mechanics (CSM) Working Group, to get the low-down on how we can really unlock the potential of ICME. This article appeared in the April 2023 Issue of BENCHMARK ....more
4. FEM vs. Numerical Simulation In the scenario presented in the previous section, the consultants explained the difference between finite element modeling and numerical simulation. The terms “finite element modeling” and “numerical simulation” are essential in the understanding of the role of Simulation Governance. Please watch this 5-minute video addressing the question of why Numerical Simulation is not the same as Finite Element Modeling. Once finished with this video, proceed to the next section which will offer a series of true/false questions to confirm understanding. Quiz What is the Difference Between Finite Element Modeling and Numerical Simulation? This question cannot be answered...more
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