Systems Engineering

3D electrical cabletray development environment for the physical design of cable trays in the context of the full Digital Mock-Up.

• 3D routing  and  detailed design of cabletray systems
• Standard & Rule Based Approach
• Advanced network modification
• Flexible report generation
• Integrated design validation
• Drawing extraction and isometrics

Design of wire harnesses and cabling systems in the context of the schematic systems definition and the complete 3D virtual product.

• Extended range of electrical 3D components
• Standard part management in catalogs
• Design electrical networks in context (harnesses and cableways)
• Analysis tools to check design quality
• Wire/Cable content import and routing into network
• New 3D Design capability from 2D schematics
• Defines hangers.
• Defines standard and contextual components.
• Instantiates hangers.
• Manages the ports of the hangers.
• Positions the standard and contextual components.
• Defines the parameters of multiple instantiation and duplicates the components

An integrated 3D electrical development environment which enables the physical design of wire harness in the context of the Digital Mockup.

• Synchronize electrical schematic to 3D design improves 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
• Extended range of electrical 3D components
• Standard part management in catalogs
• Design electrical networks in context (harnesses and cableways)
• Analysis tools to check design quality
• Wire/Cable content import and routing into network
• New 3D Design capability from 2D schematics

Generate a flattened definition of the 3D wire harness design to create manufacturing form-boards and harness documentation.

• Automatic or manual harness flattening.
• Manipulators to arrange harness layout.
• Twist constraint check.
• 2D/3D flatten according to industry need.
• Automatic drawings dress up capabilities.
• Report generation.
• Flattening synchronization with harness 3D Design.
• Configuration management.

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

• Design and optimize both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes.
• Create spools and all necessary associative drawings and reports.
• 3D routing  and  detailed design.
• Standard & Rule Based Approach.
• 3D Design from 2D.
• Advanced network modification.
• Flexible report generation.
• Integrated design validation.
• Drawing extraction and isometrics.
• Imbedded Specification builder. 

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.

• Creation of mechanical shapes of printed circuit boards.
• Electronic components placement on boards.
• Bi-directional interface with electrical CAD Systems based on industry standard interface (IDF) format.
• Synchronization after ECAD modification import.

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

• Ease of working between the flattened and folded rigid-flex printed circuit boards.
• Realistic shape of Circuit boards including flat cable.
• Openness to ECAD systems through IDF.
• Solver managing materials, forces, torques, environment.
• Manufacturability and mounting simulations for reduced design time cycles.

Optimize and verify automotive air-conditioning systems, from the early design phase through to detailed control system design and implementation.

• Develop state-of-the-art air conditioning systems, through the use of model templates and their associated source code.

• Reduce system test times and costs through intuitive modeling with fast and accurate simulation.

• Perform transient and steady state simulations and analyze the effect of different coolants including R134a, R744, R404a, R1234yf, etc.

Define static system architectures in a model based systems engineering approach to enable the understanding of the operational needs and the development of functional and components architectures.  

• 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.

• Fosters productivity with built-in algorithms for model management and data handling.
• Consider variation of cell parameters in a battery pack.
• Gauge effects of temperature spread on pack capacity and performance.
• Generate look-up table parameters from measurement data with inbuilt functions.

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.

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.

Model, simulate and analyze electric DC, single and three phase AC power systems and accelerate the development and verification of their control systems.

• Model and simulate complex power electronic systems, mechanics and thermodynamics in a single environment.
• Deliver accurate simulation results that better depict reality.
• Perform accurate modeling and simulation of transient and steady state systems.

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.

Stimulate and analyze combustion engine systems, including the complete study of the pressure and thermal dynamics of the air-gas exchange process.

• Model and simulate fluid mechanics, pressure, thermodynamics and mechanical systems performance of the complete air-gas exchange process.
• Analyze multiple Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) configurations including variable geometry turbine designs.
• Analyze transient engine responses and accelerate the related engine control systems design.

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.

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.

Design and optimize various types of fuel cells and their control systems for a wide range of industrial applications.

• Design fuel cell systems from library models that include components, subsystems, templates, and media.
• Model and simulate PEMFC (Polymer Exchange Membrane) and SOFC (Solid Oxide) based fuel cell systems.
• Reduce costs through simulation of scenarios that are expensive and difficult to physically test.

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.

Design and dimension radiators and heat exchanger stacks for automotive thermal management systems.

• Model and analyze the effect of heat exchanger stacks with different heat exchanger geometries, dimensions and positions.
• Analyze flat tube heat exchanger models with support for multiple flat tube and louvered fin designs.
• Assess the impact of inhomogeneous air flow and temperature distribution.

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.
• Easily construct and simulate detailed and realistic human comfort, zone, weather and fluid flow models.
• Addresses the human comfort analysis needs of multiple industries.

Design and verify hydrostatic drive systems for the automotive train, aerospace and industrial equipment industries.

• Model and simulate hydraulic systems using mineral or synthetic oil – from early concept studies through to detailed control system design and implementation.
• Use realistic scenarios to virtually test hydraulic systems.
• Remove operator risk and the need for costly physical prototypes during initial systems validation and plant commissioning.

Optimize the development of hydro power plant designs including the design and virtual testing of new control strategies.

• Accelerate hydro power plant design including waterway dynamics and the impact of multiple turbines connected to a common penstock.
• Integrate all hydraulic and electrical components into an overall systems model for accurate simulation of the complete plant.
• Plan operator commissioning tests and procedures in advance in order to reduce the risk of unexpected events.

Accelerate the design, component selection and dimensioning of liquid cooling systems through performance, transient response and control system strategy studies.

• Analyze incompressible liquid cooling systems to quickly understand systems characteristics and accurately dimension components.
• Design and optimize non-standard cooling systems with support for both compressible and incompressible fluid flow.
• Use in conjunction with other Modelica Libraries for full analysis of thermal management systems.

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.

Allows optimization and verification of complete pneumatic systems from the early concept design phase through to detailed production definition.

• Model and simulate pneumatic circuits and systems for detailed design, component sizing and control system design.
• Use more than 80 models of cylinders, motors, valves, nozzles, lumped volumes, lines and sensors to rapidly model and simulate complete pneumatic circuits.
• Save costs and time through virtual commissioning of complex pneumatic systems without any need to access physical plan.

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.

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

• Multidiscipline schematic application for Wire Harness, Cabling, Tubing, Piping and HVAC. 
• From principle diagram to fully detailed schematic.
• Integrated in global design process (from logical to physical).
• Objects exposed in database.
• Intelligent  Schematic objects.
• Flexible Report generation. 

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.

Modeling and simulation of complete electric drive systems.

• Build, test and compare multiple electric drive configurations.
• Connect pre-defined models, that contain definitions of full electric drive systems, to a voltage supply and mechanical load in order to assess overall systems performance.
• Analyze fast temporary effects (e.g. switching and transient effects due to electric energy storage elements.

Model and simulate both the transient and steady state operation of thermal power plants including steam and combined cycle power units.

• Develop and verify innovative as well as conventional thermal power plants and their associated control systems.
• Analyze plant start-up, shut-down and load rejection scenarios to verify the control system behavior.
• Model and simulate the flue gas side of thermal power plant, including desulphurization, NOx-removal and CO2 capture systems.

Simulate vapor cycle systems for heating or cooling.

• Model single and two-phase fluid flow, with a choice of different heat transfer and pressure loss correlations that also covers phase change.
• Analyze transient and steady-state simulation of a wide range of refrigerants and other potential working fluids.
• Use for applications such as mobile and residential air conditioning, industrial refrigeration and heat pump systems design.

Accelerate the design of automotive chassis and vehicle systems from concept design through to detailed analysis and implementation.

• Construct and simulate detailed and realistic vehicle dynamics models of cars, light trucks and heavy vehicles.
• Simulate wheeled vehicle systems and their related mechanical and control subsystems.
• Use powerful real-time analysis capabilities for HIL and SIL simulations of vehicle performance.

Design and optimize the physical system of both rigid and flexible pipes/tubes and HVAC from basic routing definition to detailed design.

• Creation and management of routed systems discipline including tubing and piping systems. 
• Evolution from preliminary to detailed design layout. 
• Integrated dynamic design rules.
• Query and analysis of piping and tubing parts and configurations.
• Customizable report definition and drawings.