Tetra Pak, BMW, SLM Highlight first day of SIMULIA Customer Conference
By Karen
2010 Opening Session
The SIMULIA Customer Conference is officially underway! We have a full house of more than 400 international attendees from leading manufacturers and alliance partners. Everyone is abuzz about the latest Abaqus 6.10 enhancements for realistic simulation that were announced in a press release on Monday, but they will have to wait until Wednesday afternoon to see the Abaqus 6.10 demonstration.
There were plenty of great presentations to keep everyone excited in the meantime.
The day was kicked off by keynote speaker Dr. Mattias Olsson, Manager of Virtual Engineering at Tetra Pak. Tetra Pak delivered the first paper package for liquid in 1952 and is still creating new and innovative packages for their customers. They continue to strive to create more eco-friendly packages to decrease the ecological footprint. Engineers at Tetra Pak use realistic simulation across the many phases of development – analyzing how the material will respond while being filled, how it reacts to forming its final shape, can it resist different drop scenarios, how does the carrying film react when carried, how does the container feel to the consumer.
Tetra Pak Products
So you can see that CAE is playing an important role in their development process. Mattias discussed that CAE enables his team to capture knowledge, improve their solutions, and predict behavior during the design phase which is several years before it goes to physical testing. With realistic simulation they can not only improve the quality of the product, but can also get it to market in half the time.
Another highlight of today was a presentation by BMW. As announced in a press release on Tuesday morning, BMW has renewed their commitment to use Abaqus Unified FEA software for the engineering of passive safety in the automaker’s virtual design process. BMW first began employing Abaqus as its exclusive tool for crash simulation in 2004, when vehicle development projects were largely supported by hardware testing and the focus of simulation was on global vehicle behavior. More recently, BMW has begun a strategic shift toward a more complete virtual development process.
The day wrapped up with a general lecture on Simulation Lifecycle Management which featured Frank Popielas, Manager Advanced Engineering in the Sealing Products Group of Dana Holding Corporation. Frank gave an insightful presentation discussing the business value his team is beginning to see through the implementation of SLM. By capturing their existing processes and best practices, Dana is finding more consistency, accuracy and faster turnaround times through easier, coordinated information flow and access.
Time to mingle and enjoy the Partner Reception and Exhibits.
Stayed tune for more updates from the conference
Enjoy, Karen
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