2011 Composites e-Seminar Series: 5 Opportunities to Strengthen Your Composites Design

Ultra light, strong, highly resistant and durable – composites are ideal for producing lightweight structures with tremendous performance capabilities. Yet, designing and mass-producing production-ready composite parts is highly complex and expensive.

Dassault Systèmes is pleased to announce our 2011 5-part on-demand e-Seminar series designed to help designers and manufacturers learn how Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for composites provides a complete set of process-oriented solutions to design, simulate and manufacture composite structures on a single virtual platform – simplifying the design process and reducing costs.

Part 1:

How to Perform Proper Composites Optimization on CATIA Composite Structures with Isight from SIMULIA

Please join Rani Richardson, CATIA Composites Product Specialist, Greg Alberchtsen, Sr. Application Engineer for CATIA Simulation & Shyam Kumar, SIMULIA Product Specialist – all from Dassault Systèmes – for our 45-minute on-demand e-Seminar to learn how to:

• Capture and automate your CATIA composites design and analysis processes, thereby reducing analysis
  cycle time

• Improve the fidelity of your results by performing proper composites optimization, including investigations into the optimum number of plies, the best ply angles and sophisticated composites damage criteria

• Improve the robustness and reliability of the CATIA composites design taking into account tolerances in material properties and manufacturability to ensure the final product will perform without failures in the field

Register now to view Part 1 today!

Part 2:

CATIA Composites Design Methods in Version 6

Join Rani Richardson, CATIA Composites Product Specialist, Rod Banach, Sr. Application Engineer, CATIA, and Etienne Ardouin, VS CATIA Composites Technical Sales Engineer – all from Dassault Systèmes – for our 45-minute on-demand e-Seminar and learn:

• How to use different preliminary design methodologies to create Composites structures

• How to reduce cycle time and apply best practices when designing Composites structures

• About the benefits of the Version 6 Platform for Collaboration

Register now to view Part 2 today!

Part 3:

The Integration of CATIA Composites Design with Abaqus/CAE from SIMULIA

Join Rani Richardson, CATIA Composites Product Specialist, Greg Albrechtsen, Sr. Application Engineer for CATIA Simulation and Krishna Akula, SIMULIA Technical Product Specialist – all from Dassault Systèmes – for our 45-minute on-demand e-Seminar.

This e-Seminar will show you how Abaqus/CAE tools from SIMULIA – native to your CATIA CAD system and based on the same virtual platform – allow for an associativity that cannot be found with any other tools. This enables you to:

• Receive feedback from the FEA analyst early in the design lifecycle and make as many iterative loops as needed
• Ensure the composite parts meet all of the structural requirements without under or overdesigning or adding unnecessary material and weight
• Further automate the design and analysis process by incorporating knowledgeware for rules, checks and other features that will help reduce the lifecycle of the virtual product definition and virtual testing of composite structures

Register now to view Part 3 today!

Part 4:

Optimize CNC Cutting and Material Utilization for Composites using Native CATIA Composite Design Data

Featured Speakers: Rani Richardson, CATIA Composites Product Specialist, Dassault Systèmes and Michael Spellman, Vice President & CTO, Magestic Systems Incorporated.

Learn how TruNEST CAA Composites Design, a product developed by DS partner Magestic Systems Incorporated:

• Utilizes an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) compliant database architecture to easily and seamlessly integrate cutting composite material with today's advanced PLM and ERP/MRP systems
• Automatically extracts critical manufacturing information – such as grain constraints, material properties and label information – from native CATIA composites design data without any secondary operations
• Includes different optimization routines – such as automatic common line cutting, material management, custom post processors and automatic labeling – to maximize the entire process of cutting composite material

Register now to view Part 4 today!

Part 5:

Composites as a Neutral Format for FAA Certification & the newest release of Version 6 PLM for Composites

Featured Speakers: Rani Richardson, CATIA Composites Product Specialist, Dassault Systèmes, Shawn Ehrstein, Director of the NIAR CAD/CAM Laboratories and Information Technology Center, Rod Banach, CATIA Composites Technical Sales Engineer, Dassault Systèmes and Etienne Ardouin, CATIA Composites Technical Sales Engineer, Dassault Systèmes.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires that manufacturers have a plan for generating design intent for the life of their product. As the aerospace industry begins to rely more and more on Composites, these regulations make it increasingly important for manufacturers to use neutral formats. They must ensure that digital data can be accessed well into the future – sometimes 100 years or more – and be confident that the media on which it is stored will survive the life of the product. The first part of this e-Seminar will review design history specific to Composites and then describe future directions for supporting full Design Intent in a Model-Based Environment using explicit representation of Composite structures.

The second part of this e-Seminar will review the latest Version 6 release of PLM for Composites.

Register now to view Part 5 today!