Systems Engineering

An integrated 3D cabletray development environment which enables the physical design of cable trays in the context of the Digital Mock-Up.

• Create and modify 3D cabletray systems using specialized functions
• Ensure compliance with corporate and industry standards using part placement from catalogs
• Extract all necessary manufacturing information and documentation

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.

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.

An integrated 3D electrical development environment which enables the physical design of wire harnesses 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.
• Route 3D wires and cables to obtain exact bundle diameters and wire/cable lengths. 
• Reduce the need for costly physical prototypes and decreasing design and manufacturing cost.

Generate harness manufacturing documentation or formboard layouts using a highly automated process fully integrated with the 3D wire harness design.

• Flatten the 3D harness in a 2D plane and optimize the complete layout for formboard preparation and full scale drawing generation.
• Generate automatic annotated full scale harness documentation including drawings and reports.
• Manage synchronization of all generated documents to reflect changes in the 3D design.

Integrates the required functionalities for the development and integration of all Electrical and Electronics systems and components.

• Provides a single source of truth for all vehicle Electrical, Electronics and Software Engineering data.
• Enables collaborative design between different disciplines specific data and the management of all design commonality and reuse across vehicle platforms.
• Define and optimize system Electrical & Electronics (E/E) Architecture by distributing functions onto Hardware and Software components, including network definition.
• Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA) design for Aerospace and Defense 

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.

Design rigid and flexible printed circuit boards while taking the overall mechanical design into account.

• Create 3D mechanical shapes of printed circuit boards in the context of the mechanical assembly.
• Retrieval and intelligent placement of electronic components from ECAD through the bi-directional IDF (Intermediate Data Format) & IDX (Interdomain Design eXchange) format.
• Define flexible circuit boards, including electronic components, working interchangeably between the flattened and folded representation.

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.

Advanced Design of Rigid-Flex printed circuit boards to optimize layout and material cost. 

• Optimize the modeling and shape of rigid-flex printed circuit boards within the digital mock-up to reduce material usage and costs.
• Retrieve electronic components from ECAD through the bi-directional IDF interface (Intermediate Data Format).
• Ease of working interchangeably between the flattened and folded rigid-flex printed circuit boards.

Define static system architectures to understand the development of functional and components architecture.

• Collaborative management of growing system complexity through static architecture modeling, requirements decomposition and interface mastering in an inter-disciplinary model based Systems Engineering approach.
• Reduction of systems development effort by managing configured architecture with variants and system assets reuse.
• Compliance demonstration to safety standards and best practices through comprehensive system traceability and impact analysis.
• Adaptability to business processes.

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.

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

• Generate standalone executable Functional Mock-up Units (FMU’s) from a Modelica compliant 3DExperience model for use in other co-simulation environments.

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.

Define comprehensive system architecture in a model based approach to enable understanding of the operational context and needs and the development of functional and components architectures.

• Collaborative management of growing system complexity through comprehensive systems architecture modeling, requirements decomposition and interfaces management in a model based Systems Engineering approach and considering multiple system viewpoints from states, static and dynamic.
• Reduction of systems development effort by managing configured architecture with variants and system assets reuse.
• Compliance demonstration to safety standards and best practices through comprehensive system traceability and impact analysis.

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.

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.

Export from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, Modelica compliant systems behavior models for use in Hardware in the Loop (HIL) test environments.

• Shorten the development time for complex systems by virtually simulating plant models to validate the behavior of new Electronic Control Units (ECU’s)
• Leverage high-performance simulation implementations to minimize systems development time
• Avoid costs and risks associated with executing new ECU’s on real physical plant.

Create intelligent schematics from principle to detailed definition for Wiring, Cabling, Piping/Tubing and HVAC systems.

• Define electrical and fluid systems interconnection diagrams for a complete systems definition.
• Design assistance and traceability between the systems engineering  process steps and 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.

Export Modelica compliant systems behavior models from the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform for simulation within a Simulink environment.

• Export a Modelica plant model (developed in either the Systems Dynamics Performance or the Systems Mechatronic Engineering processes) in order to validate the behavior of a plant controller modeled in Simulink.
• Strengthen collaborative workflow between systems with engineers using Simulink for control systems design.
• Gradually refine the systems design from simple start models through to detailed product designs.
• Re-use system plant components in many different systems to reduce maintenance & development time.

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.

Ensure collaboration and traceability on heterogeneous systems models.

• Global digital collaboration in extended enterprise through openness with legacy tooling.
• Support system analysis for engineering synthesis among heterogeneous data set authored in different tools.
• Compliance to stakeholders’ requirements at each step of the development process.
• Provide visibility of relevant engineering data for better Project control: reveal engineering gaps.

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.

A 3D Piping & Tubing development environment for the physical design of bendable and flexible tubing and piping systems.

• Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes from basic routing definition to detailed design.
• Take advantage of company defined component catalogs for standard parts.
• Create spools and all necessary reports.

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.