Systems Engineering

Optimize the physical design of complex electrical and tubing systems.

• Project communication based on 3D approach leaving space for quick start 3D design allowing early study of what if scenarios.
• Design efficiently by providing a smart and powerful user interface combined with automated detailing design technologies.
• Product quality: by respecting engineering specifications and topology, and by providing data consistency checks at any stage of the design process.

Ensure the aircraft industrial spaces definition with the right dimensions.

• Single source for geometrical data that is shareable across multiple disciplines.
• Provides spatial subdivision for conceptual, design and manufacturing purposes.
• Subdivision structured as a hierarchy when performed on all three dimensions.
• Linear subdivision following an alignment curve, which is suitable for civil engineering projects.

Ensure the consistency of Avionics architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

Rapid convergence of battery systems development from cells engineering to the battery pack design.

• Fosters productivity with built-in algorithms for model management and data handling.
• Fosters innovative solutions for heat recovery and thermal management of the complete system.
• Significantly reduced costs through the efficient modeling and simulation of cooling circuits.

Systems architecture design, modeling and simulation for the development of complex battery systems.

• Fast cells multi-physics modeling for electrical, thermal and aging behavior simulation.
• Battery pack multi-physics modeling for efficient cooling system development.
• Battery aging investigation based on electro-chemical cell models

Rapid convergence of chassis and suspension systems development.

•  Faster investigation vehicle handling systems within a multidisciplinary approach for active suspension.
• Optimize & assess the vehicle control strategy.
• Seamless collaboration with chassis concept designer. 

Rapid assessment and convergence for the right aircraft system concept by using multi-physics simulation

• Accelerate development convergence by enabling concurrent engineering and common understanding of the system behavior
• Allow performance trade-off of main aircraft systems for different configurations, scenarios
• Rapid estimation of electric power components requirements
• Simplification in design processes by easily composing hydraulic systems

Rapid convergence of controlled surfaces systems and landing gear system development by using multi-physics simulation

• Determine loads acting on linkages due to aerodynamic forces acting on the flap With rigid and flexible bodies
• Optimization Loops between the different parameters for control strategy definition
• Perform dynamic system behavior studies including retraction, deployment, locks and hydraulic system failure, vibrations, wind tests

Accelerate the development and understanding of complex dynamic systems through modeling and simulation.

• Rapidly model and simulate the performance of complex products and systems.
• Accelerate understanding and validation of complex systems through early virtual simulation.
• Quickly find solutions to complex multi-physic system design problems.
• Uses Modelica compliant component models to ensure Intellectual Property capture and re-use.
• Size, tune and optimize system components and parameters quickly, accurately and early in the system design process.

Rapid convergence and investigation of the full electric powertrain performances by using multi-physics simulation

• Fosters productivity with built-in algorithms for model management and data handling
• Consider variation of cell parameters in a battery pack
• Significantly reduced costs through the efficient modeling and simulation of cooling circuits
• Fosters innovative solutions for heat recovery and thermal management of the complete system

Enables the physical design of wire harness and cabling in the context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design and optimize the harness routing
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths
• Generate automatic annotated scaled drawings and needed manufacturing documentation
• Easily synchronized changes to reflect changes in the 3D design to the manufacturing documents

Integrated 3D electrical development environment, which enables the physical design of wire harness and cabling in the context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to improve electrical systems quality and consistency
• Design and optimize electrical BD wire harness bundles and cable ways accurately in the context of the full product
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths

An integrated 3D electrical development environment which enables the physical design of wire harnesses and cabling in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to  improve electrical systems quality and consistency.
• Design and optimize electrical 3D harness bundles and cableways accurately in the context of the full product and avoid the need of costly physical prototypes, thus reducing costs.
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths.

Enables the physical design of cabling and cable tray systems in context of the complete product

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design to improve electrical systems quality and consistency
• Design and optimize electrical 3D networks: cable-way and cable tray
• Facilitate the data generation necessary for Manufacturing: Route 3D cables reusing company standard and specification rules to obtain exact cable list, filling ratio, cable lengths

Ensure the consistency of Electrical, Electronics & Software architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

Ensure the consistency of Electrical, Electronics & Software architectures data, on industrial vehicle systems, to prepare the detailed design by "connecting the dots".

• One single source of truth and unified Electrical & Electronics (E/E) data to master the vehicle's architecture complexity.
• Configuration management enables platform-based design for E/E architectures.
• Vehicle E/E architecture synthesis and analysis for early trade-off studies.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.
• Provides traceability of engineering data.

Generates Functional Mock-up Units (FMUs) from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform in order to integrate and simulate the model on other co-simulation platforms

• Automatically generate a reliable Functional Mockup Unit (FMU) that is fully compliant with the Functional Mockup Interface (FMI) standard for co-simulation purposes
• Generate standalone executable FMU from a Modelica compliant 3DExperience model for use in other co-simulation environments

Improve piping, tubing and HVAC systems quality, shorten design time and reduce material costs.

• Implement basic piping and tubing behaviors, relationships, and attributes.
• Design with a highly interactive and intuitive user interface.
• Easy-to-use, manipulation-driven, object-oriented user interface, with dedicated manipulators and commands based on design context.
• Integrate business rules.
• Automatically decompose 3D systems to individual piping and tubing objects, attributes, and relationships on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

An integrated 3D fluid systems development environment which enables the physical design of tubing, piping and HVAC systems in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes and HVAC from basic routing definition to detailed design.
• Take advantage of generative and specification driven design and automated part placement capabilities to ensure compliance with corporate and industry standards.
• Create spools and all necessary associative drawings and reports.

Leverage the power of Modelica and 3DEXPERIENCE to rapidly develop, simulate and validate complex mechatronic systems.

• Rapid development of systems comprising of mechanical, embedded control software, electronic, hydraulic and pneumatic technologies through a rich integrated 2D & 3D systems development environment.
• Minimize development cost and effort through the reuse of modular components and systems.
• Ensure compliance with market and regulatory requirements through a structured Model Based Systems Engineering approach.
• Reuse intellectual property, expertise and models across multiple systems and products.
• All disciplines share a common understanding of a product or systems behavior.

Engineer fluid & electrical systems and steel layout equipment in context of the ship/platform.

• Engineer the integrated 2D and 3D basic and detail design for fluid and electrical systems.
• Engineer the steel layout design for ladders, stairs, and auxiliary steel systems.
• Layout deck outfitting, equipment foundations and non-discipline specific equipment.
• Improve delivery times by embedding design rules to optimize design processes.
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements by reviewing customer requirements to specific design objects.

An integrated 3D fluid systems development environment for the physical design of piping and HVAC.

• Design and optimize the physical system of pipes and HVAC from basic routing definition to detailed design in context of the other disciplines.
• Take advantage of specification and schematic driven design with automated part placement capabilities to ensure compliance with corporate and industry standards.
• Facilitate the data generation necessary for manufacturing preparation, such as spools, drawings and reports.

Rapidly converge engine and transmission systems development using multi-physics simulation.

• Enhance vehicle performance and efficiency by assessing the most effective powertrain system.
• Full powertrain experiment available for rapid parametrization (Diesel and Gas engines and gearbox architecture).
• Modelling both Spark Ignition and Compression Ignition engines for C02 and particle emission investigation.
• Supports the design and validation of the associated control system.

Generate high quality documents using the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

• Generation in multiple formats of high quality documents (Word, RTF, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, CSV).
• Fully integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Product Lifecycle Management features for templates and documents management.
• Extraction and manipulation of information from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform based on Business Templates.
• Reuse the same generation template as many times as required.

Generate high quality documents using the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.

• Generation of multiple formats high quality documents (Word, RTF, Excel, PDF, HTML, XML, CSV).
• Fully integrated into the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Single source of truth / Controlled Access.
• Product Lifecycle Management features for templates and documents management.
• Extraction and manipulation of information from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform.
• Design of document generation templates according to business rules.
• Reuse the same template as many time as required.
• Web graphical user interface for the templates design.

Bring battery simulation to the system level with a Modelica-based simulation library to support the integration of battery cells in complex systems and the design of electrical storage systems.   

• Ready-to-use implementation of important ISO norms for batteries.
• Preconfigured models for several cell shapes and chemistries.
• Physical class interfaces make the library compatible with all Modelica Libraries.
• Ready-to-use simulation test benches for relevant ISO-Norms for energy efficiency, cranking power and capacity.

Optimize and tune systems parameters of a device or its controller to improve system dynamics for multiple criteria and multiple cases.

• Tune Modelica model parameters for better systems performance, e.g. the gear ratio of a gearbox or the parameters of a system controller.
• Optimize system parameters so that the overall system behavior is improved.
• Derive mathematical optimization criteria from simulation results, by frequency responses or by Eigenvalue analysis.

Allows the integration of Brushless DC motors and control into systems.

• Covers a wide range of scenarios due to the different levels of complexity available.
• Simple coupling with other technical domains (mechanical, thermal) with high flexibility.
• Parameters and models can be added by the user extending and specializing the functionality of the library.

Generate C Code from Modelica compliant systems behavior models in order to validate the model on any hardware platform.

• Automatically generate C source code that is reliable and traceable.
• Generated C code can be adapted for use on any hardware platform.
• Open access to C source code for user customization.

Model and simulate complex thermodynamic cycle processes for electricity power generation using Clausius Rankine cycles.

• Detect and avoid critical states in complex electric power plants.
• Optimize control models before real plant exists with precise analysis of process transients in components.
• Fast and efficient investigation of dynamic operation conditions, at component level, for dimensioning.

Develop cooling systems and dimension components, dedicated to batteries and electric drives and electronic thermal management.

• Significantly reduced costs through the efficient modeling and simulation of cooling circuits.
• Fosters innovative solutions for heat recovery and thermal management of the complete system.
• Quickly dimension cooling components to assess sub-systems lifetime and performances.
• Simplifies control development by considering thermal inertia of coolant circuit based on dynamic models.
• Easy to implement with compatible connectors and simple component parameterization.
• Easy to add user-defined fluid property table data to explore other solutions.

Rapidly design and validate electrical power systems, comprising DC and AC high frequency (800Hz) distribution architecture with real time capabilities.

• Real time capabilities for efficient control design & validation of the distribution architectures and flight simulators.
• Enable the concurrent cooling system design with thermal loss and dissipation of the components.
• Fault triggering and re-configuration for fail safe/fail active architectures.

Assists design steps during the entire process of developing electric drives.

• Rapid analysis of the impact of different powertrain configurations.
• Simulate and validate the behavior of complex multi-physics electrified powertrain systems quickly and easily.
• Validate power management system choices by taking into account the charging and discharging performance of fuel cells and batteries, their interaction with electric drives, their control strategies and other vehicle powertrain systems.
• Reuse hierarchical system models across multiple system configurations for to allow for maximum agility in defining new electrified powertrain systems.

Play with virtual or hybrid experiences designed with the Virtual Systems Experience Designer role.

• Support for training systems.

• Monitor real-time and interactive experiences.

• Interact with the experience manually via customized IHM or automatically via scenarios.

• Improve collaboration and parallel test across different teams.

• Provide enhanced validation, earlier in each development phase.

Design safe products by preventing failure modes through static analysis.

• Assess the quality of an architecture.
• Identify undesirable situations from an existing system architecture through a preliminary risk assessment methodology.
• Define failure modes and analyze the effect on system architecture and determine the consequences for stakeholders.
• Create analysis using predefined templates from existing libraries or customize your template.

Accelerate the analysis of the large motions of flexible beams, annular plates and flexible bodies.

• Model and simulate mechanical systems that contain a mixture of rigid elements and flexible beam structures.
• Reduce costs through the seamless modeling and simulation of scenarios that are expensive and difficult to physically test.
• Analyze the impact of geometric stiffening and buckling during simulations.

Model, simulate and anlyze of the flight dynamic characteristics of a wide range of flight vehicles.

• Create accurate multi-disciplinary models and simulation of aircraft flight dynamics that span on-ground operations through to high speed and high attitude flights.
• Assess the impact of aircraft configuration changes on flight characteristics early in the design process.
• Leverage accurate flight dynamic models and realistic visualization to create real-time simulators for training pilots and product marketing.

The Systems Fluid Dynamics library carries out CFD-Simulations using the Modelica language and provides standard interfaces to 1D-Modelica-models for a seamless connection.

• Zones Package: Modelling mobile or stationary climate zones under different boundary conditions.
• Weather Package: Modelling of Climate Conditions.
• Physical gas dynamics are a pure result of geometry and the Navier-Stokes equations.

Model and predict hydraulic systems behavior for transportation and mobility, aerospace and industrial equipment industries.

• Assess and validate control laws for hydraulics systems, from the conceptual design to validation phases.
• Accelerate development convergence by enabling concurrent engineering and common understanding of the system behavior.
• Simplification in design processes by easily composing hydraulic systems with other disciplines.
• Minimize costs through reduced need for physical prototype testing.

Optimize the design & performance of Heat, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems.

• Minimize building HVAC operating costs by selecting the correct system control strategy.
• Avoid costly HVAC system design errors early in the building design process.
• Accurately analyze operating costs through whole-year usage simulations of the building HVAC system.
• Rapidly assess the impact of HVAC system design on occupant comfort.
• Quickly assess how different control strategies will behave with dynamic building HVAC systems.

Model and analyze the thermal comfort of building and vehicle occupants.

• Eliminate the need for time consuming and costly co-simulation analysis to determine human comfort.
• Evaluate human comfort through the simultaneous dynamic simulation of zones and air conditioning systems.
• Save time through the use of state-of-the art engineering with the ability to leverage human comfort specific models.

Model and simulate polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell stacks and cells for pre-design, control strategy evaluation, or loss analysis.

• Improve cell efficiency by predicting coolant temperature and mass flow rate requirements.
• Reduce physical tests to estimate temperature dependencies of polarization curves.
• Reduce membrane aging: Develop control laws, ensuring sufficient air or hydrogen flow at abrupt load changes.
• Predict performances of complete fuel cell of hybrid vehicles in combination with multi-domain Modelica libraries.

Perform analysis of control systems, test new control concepts, optimize start-up and shut-down process, Analyze different failure scenarios and dimension certain components.

• Comprehensive range of general process equipment common in different types of plants: pumps, heat exchangers, valves, piping and fittings, storage tanks, pressurized vessels.
• All medium property calculations is done in the medium, so by using different media the density could be fixed or calculated based on the full IF97 water equations.
• More complicated models consists of replaceable parts, like the pressure-flow equations for valves that could be calculated with all details such as cavitation, or it can be replaces by a simple linear equation for cases when this relations is non critical.

Design pneumatic systems and predict their behaviors for a large range of industrial applications.

• Provide gas models and interface with Modelica Standard Library media.
• Comprehensive list of animated components including valves, reservoirs, actuators, piping, sensors and pneumatic sources, using the ISO1219 standardized icons.
• Thermal management is available on components.
• System and component design in the same applications, with the usage of other libraries.
• Modeling level can be adapted to achieve more accuracy or speed the simulation.

Model and Simulate the characteristics of vehicle powertrain systems including the resulting motion of the vehicle.

• Use engine, transmission, clutch, driveline and chassis models and components to rapidly model and simulate powertrain systems.
• Predict vehicle attributes such as performance, fuel economy and drivability.
• Consider 3D mechanical effects of powertrain on a multi-body vehicle dynamics model and use the models for real-time simulation purposes such as Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing.

Create discipline-specific intelligent schematics for wiring, cabling, piping/tubing and HVAC systems.

• Define and connect electrical and fluid systems schematics for a complete detailed system definition.
• Capture attributes and technology automatically within the schematic.
• Analyze connectivity and quality of schematic design and ensure synchronization with the 3D design using business intelligence rules.

Define cross-disciplines solution architectures to federate detail designs by disciplines.

• Orchestration of product definition on the overall system lifecycle with change, configuration on a single source of truth.
• Definition and management of cross-disciplines solution architecture.
• Pulls together detail design by disciplines (Mechanical, Electrical, Fluid, Electronics, Software).
• Reduction of systems development effort by managing configured architecture with variants and system assets reuse.

The library is ideally suited for the design and optimization of large and complex systems, such as refrigeration cycles and mixtures, heat pumps, ab and adsorption systems.

• Save money by reducing real measurements: Thermal Systems Library provides accurate and industry-proven models already validated by laboratory measurements.
• Rapidly optimize the best thermal system for your needs, thanks to the scalable, robust and performant modeling.
• Save time in thermal system performance assessment with a comprehensive set of ready-to-use components and examples.

Reduce iteration loop by supporting collaboration and traceability in extended enterprise Systems traceability analyst support systems architect to:

• Support systems analysis among heterogeneous data set authored in different tools.
• Support systems traceability to specifications or design elements among heterogeneous data set authored in different tools.
• Automatic generation of consistent specifications for suppliers.

Systems Traceability engineer provides the following values: 

• Support systems analysis among heterogeneous data set authored in different tools.
• Support systems traceability to specifications or design elements among heterogeneous data.
• set authored in different tools.
• Provide visibility of relevant engineering data for better project control.

Model spark ignition and compression ignition engines for intake and exhaust flows, emissions and torque assessment.

• Easy to customize to investigate new technologies like Variable Camshaft Timing and Atkinson cycle engines.
• Add turbochargers, superchargers and related components such as intercoolers.
• Easy to switch from mean value and crank angle models through common templates.

Provides modelling and simulation for rotating multibody systems, such as automotive powertrains. It allows you to predict the behavior of the transmission in testing of vehicles.

• Predict the driving experience of the vehicle from the driver demands on the accelerator.
• Solve complex multi-discipline challenges of hybridization and control within the vehicle powertrain.
• Enhance the vehicle performance and efficiency by assessing the most effective powertrain system.

Develop active suspension systems for vehicle dynamics including road, driver and stability control models. The library includes  a complete set of suspension, rig, experiment models and templates .

• Faster investigation vehicle handling systems within a multidisciplinary approach for active suspension.
• Reduce cost with a single solution comprising an extensive list of models and templates for vehicle handling and ride.
• Benefit from high to real-time performances and built-in paralletisation.

Predict the main performance of a system-level definition comprising the thermal, hybrid or electrical propulsion, transmission and drivetrains.

• Accelerate vehicle performance investigation through an intuitive open and modular approach.
• Predict fuel economy for standard and specific drive cycles, based on multi-domain simulation.
• Streamlines the processes for further specialized investigation such as vehicle dynamics, or electrified powertrain development.

Rapidly model and simulate Wind Turbines at system-level for optimized performances.

• Faster Wind Turbine development for specific regions and operational needs.
• Scalable design and simulation from simplified to detailed models for the different components.
• Faster deployment with ready-to-use models for dedicated use cases:Maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques, Pitch control, Reactive Power voltage Oriented Control.

Analyze the impact that HVAC systems,weather and equipment have on thermal comfort of zone occupants.

• Eliminate the need for time consuming and costly co-simulation analysis to determine human comfort
• Evaluate human comfort through the simultaneous dynamic simulation of zones and air conditioning systems
• Save time with state-of-the art engineering with the ability to leverage human comfort specific models
• Easily construct and simulate detailed and realistic human comfort, zone; weather and fluid flow models

Design and simulate thermal systems such as refrigeration cycles and mixtures, heat pumps etc.

• Rapidly optimize the best thermal system for your needs.
• Model and simulate individual components in details.
• Large and complex system optimization.
• Wide range of application.
• Heat pump systems.
• Hydraulic networks.
• Systems with ejectors.
• Heating; ventilation and air-conditioning systems.
• Engines cooling Exhaust systems.

A CATIA  Systems  Engineering  solution, to integrate, co-execute and validate virtual heterogeneous models, via a real-time and interactive platform.

• Co-execute models in real-time, multi-tasking and distributed modes.
• Co-execute large-scale, multi-discipline, multi-domain, complex models.
• Customized control HMI.
• Open, independent and consistent integration of heterogeneous models (control command, environment and human interactions) with collaboration.
• Web based solution.