Mirroring its life cycle approach to product development, Dassault Systèmes is pursuing a similar tactic for simulation, announcing a Simulation Lifecycle Management strategy around its SIMULIA brand.
The new product portfolio will meld the SIMULIA simulation environment, which came to Dassault via its May 2005 acquisition of Abaqus Inc., with the company's V5 SOA for PLM, company officials say. By leveraging the data management, application integration and process automation capabilities of a PLM platform for a comparable simulation platform, Dassault is aiming to help companies integrate simulation earlier and more effectively into their core product development processes.
That's not the way simulation has traditionally worked, according to Paul Lalor, product manager for a new suite of SLM products at Simulia, a Dassault division based in Providence, RI. “The vast majority of simulation users tend to operate in isolation, in pockets or islands where the software they use, the data they need and generate, as well as the processes they employ are outside of the mainstream of overall development processes,” Lalor says. “This inhibits simulation from living up to its full potential.”
What SLM will enable companies to do, Lalor says, is allow the simulation experts to package their findings and methods and deliver them to a broader audience of design engineers. In addition, an SLM platform will help companies better leverage their intellectual property around simulation.
In addition to the SLM platform, Dassault's SIMULIA group also announced version 6.7 of the Abaqus FEA suite. The update introduces a new architecture for high-performance linear dynamics along with capabilities for composites simulation, adding to the software's existing nonlinear capabilities.
The first release in Dassault's SLM line is slated for delivery later this year. It will be a base data management and process automation foundation, along the lines of Dassault's Enovia Product Data Management and collaboration platform. From there, Lalor says, Dassault will introduce add-on modules for specific simulation functions. The new SLM solution will support Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis and the simulation analysis applications in CATIA V5 in addition to other third-party applications.
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 Abaqus Version 6.7 includes a new composites layup interface as well as high-performance linear dynamics capabilities. |
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