SimulationX

The Powerful Simulation Software Package for the Future

Introduction

SimulationX is a standard software for valuation of the interaction of all components of technical systems. It is the universal CAE tool for modeling, simulation and analyzing of physical effects – with ready-to-use model libraries for 1D mechanics, 3D multibody systems, power transmission, hydraulics, pneumatics, thermodynamics, electrics, electrical drives, magnetics as well as controls – postprocessing included.

SimulationX is the trend-setter in physical system simulation. The model libraries including validated model components are being developed in close cooperation with numerous industrial partners and research institutes. The program with its customer-oriented modules and editions, numerous functionalities and interfaces fulfils the requirements for users’ application tasks.

SimulationX is a new modeling and simulation tool launched in 2002. The development was motivated by the growing needs to analyze modern technical, mechatronic and heterogeneous systems. The tool is unique in terms of library integration, modeling comfort and flexibility. It has been developed as a CAE application with an up-to-date user front-end.

Major Benefits

• Using SimulationX the engineers from different disciplines can transfer subtasks into component or system models using their familiar and efficient development methods.

• SimulationX models the interaction of components from a multitude of domains including their mutual interaction and feedback. This significantly distinguishes SimulationX from any other kind of CAE software (FEM, CFD, MBS).

• SimulationX as the common modeling and simulation platform in system development creates a base for mutual understanding of all concerned parties.

• The dynamic system behavior of modern and complex machines and plants is manageable, controllable, and interpretable throughout the whole development process as well as during error analysis.

• Development and simulation tasks, which cover several components and subsystems and include pre- as well as post-processing are solved faster using SimulationX.

• The application of SimulationX reduces development costs and minimizes expenses for cost-intensive prototype testing on the complete system as well as design changes.

• The observability of arbitrary system quantities in the model, including those, which are hardly or not at all accessible in measurements, leads to a considerably deeper understanding of the overall systems.

• The access to validated and transparent SimulationX models and their parameters in system development ensures a high certainty of conclusions concerning the realizability of desired performance parameters of a design or plant as well as concerning the evaluation of proposed solutions.

• SimulationX considerably boosts system integration. Different physical properties (e.g., mechanical, thermal, electrical) and different sub-systems (drive, machine, process) are described independently of each other, but are simulated, analyzed, and optimized in their interactions.

• A target-oriented expansion and modification of virtual sub-systems allows to break completely new ground.

• SimulationX considerably improves product quality. The consideration of a growing number of system variants based on virtual models which are close to reality opens up the possibility of a holistic examination, comparison, and evaluation of new solutions.

Modules
Thanks to modularity you can select and combine the tools according to your needs and applications, with the possibility to extend functionality at any time.

Libraries
.... group the model objects according to the physical domains and application fields. They provide ready-to-use element types, accelerating and shortening model development considerably.

Options
... complete your toolbox for a comprehensive system and structural analysis (equilibrium computation, calculation of natural frequencies and modes,energies), and provide database connection and code export.

Interfaces to different software tools

The SimulationX interfaces couple SimulationX models with CAE, CAD, CAM, CAO, FEA/FEM, CFD, MBS or any other calculation software tools.

The coupling ensures the data exchange between the tools and thus the advantages of your tools and our simulation software complement one another.

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