Vehicle Electrification Lunch and Simulate Series
Across industries, electrical components and systems are becoming increasingly instrumental to next-generation product development. Yet, such systems present challenges in terms of complexity, sizing, and cost. How do companies enhance their workflows to accommodate...
Space-bound shake down: Top performing sine base excitation testing software
When everything rides on structure, dynamic qualification testing is a must. Space engineers know there’s no room for error. They face a multimillion-dollar imperative to de-risk qualification tests and ensure they get hardware prototypes right the first time....
A New Era of Air Mobility: VTOL achieves new heights with a digital twin approach
Vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft are opening the door to new possibilities for transportation and mobility, particularly within urban areas. The future of air mobility involves flying over traffic, vertical take-off, electric propulsion, and autonomous...
Win-win: Model-Based System Testing
Efficient collaboration between simulation and test How can you maintain an efficient product development process and easily manage a growing number of variants? Bring simulation and test together in synergy and overcome modelling and validation challenges with the...
How to Set Up an Optimization Study in Simcenter 3D
Working from a baseline simulation to find the optimal design This is the third of our three-post series on creating an electronics systems cooling (ESC) digital twin to meet thermal requirements. Read part one here and part two here. The comprehensive Simcenter 3D...
How to Create and Maintain an Electronics Systems Cooling Digital Twin in Simcenter 3D
A step-by-step guide on working with PCB data in Simcenter 3D This post is the second part of three about creating an electronics systems cooling (ESC) digital twin to meet thermal requirements. Read part one here. Simcenter 3D provides advanced geometry preparation,...
App Development Platforms
A Q&A with Siemens Partners Maya HTT and Incisiv Remi Duquette, Maya HTT’s VP of Innovation and Industrial AI, recently spoke with Dave Weinand, Chief Customer Officer for Incisiv, about application development platforms (ADPs). The discussion covered topics...
Doubling Down on Design: Cool Electronics
How an electronics systems cooling (ESC) digital twin can ensure electronics meet thermal requirements How hot can an electronics package get? Media stories of cell phones smoldering and igniting under pillows are a sure-fire way to gain the wrong kind of attention...
How to Rapidly and Simultaneously Update Multiple Structural Dynamic Models
Simcenter 3D FE Model Update helps improve the fidelity of simulations. By adjusting the model’s material and physical properties parameters (called Design Variables), it is possible to produce a close match to actual product performance. The new Model Update...
NX Open: Why Exactly Right Is Better Than Very Good
How to achieve critical success with NX Open customization and automation If you’re looking for a comprehensive CAD, CAM and CAE software with impressive capabilities, Siemens’ NX is probably at the top of your list. It does a lot – and we do mean a lot....
Perseverance pays off!
Perseverance and Ingenuity The whole world watched as NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover landed on the red planet at around 3:55 p.m. EST February 18, 2021. This is not a first for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the lead center for robotic exploration of the...
Spacecraft Model Based System Testing – Correlation of Test & Simulation
In 2019, the three Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites were successfully launched into orbit. These satellites demonstrate the benefits of a seamless collaboration of simulation and test for complex space systems. Using the example of the Falcon 9...
Solutions Designed for an Accelerating Future
“Speed,” as we think about it today is faster than it used to be. What will it be tomorrow? How far away is the “future,” and how fast will we get there? The rate of acceleration and the pace of change are challenges in projecting what the...
Digital Tools & Cold Chain Management: Delivery Solutions for Lifesaving Vaccines
Technology has produced many innovative public health solutions for dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. As attention has shifted to the promise of a covid-19 vaccine, cold chain management is taking its turn in the spotlight. The hurdles don’t stop with the...
Enterprise-wide data oversight with essential PLM and PDM capabilities
Product lifecycle management (PLM) delivers control over data with improved processes and the integration of MCAD and ECAD data – advantages large companies have leveraged successfully. As small and medium sized businesses now face the same complex electro-mechanical...
Specialized Artificial Intelligence or Generalized Human?
Is the future of engineering specialized or generalized? One of the goals of engineering, across disciplines and industries, is to understand and predict outcomes and, drawing from technical knowledge, skills, and experience, to deliver the best solution for the...
Why your AI strategy needs more than data
The artificial intelligence (AI) revolution has been underway since about 2016. As a result of great increases in computational power, AI no longer belongs to the realm of media hype and science fiction. Today, AI offers concrete benefits in all areas of engineering,...
What is the next frontier for aerospace and defense?
Explore the potential of next-gen digitalization Today more than ever, the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry is seeking new ways to innovate and do business. The digital revolution underfoot has broadened horizons, transformed best practices, and created space...
Creating an Electric Future for Aviation: Projet HERA
This team of engineering students embarked on a lofty and ambitious project: to prove that electric airplanes could take flight. Find out how, with some coaching from Maya HTT, they were able to refine their battery and airplane design using Amesim and STAR-CCM+...
Maya HTT has proudly joined the MindSphere Partner program
As remote machine monitoring becomes critical, traditional methods no longer perform. Maya HTT has proudly joined the MindSphere Partner program making it possible for us to bring you smart industrial IoT solutions that help you build a solid base for efficient and...
Siemens
Self-learning application for determining the optimal settings of an industrial machine in a complex environment Manufacturers are facing significant challenges in machine operations today. Complex production machines are very sensitive to changing production...
Siemens Mobility
Making operations in train stations more efficient and transparent Railway operators face the challenge of planning their personnel, ensuring passenger safety and keeping costs at a minimum. To make better decisions railway operators often lack information on...
Siemens Healthcare
Improved requirements engineering drives new product development for medical device maker Siemens Healthcare, one of the world‘s largest suppliers to the healthcare industry is consolidating product systems engineering requirements into a single system using...
Digital transformation in discrete manufacturing
Preventative Maintenance of Production Assets Using efficient signal processing algorithms to determine the need for preventative maintenance delivers cost-savings and reduces downtime, leveraging IIoT data to identify and act on early signs of performance...
Vermont Violins
Crafting Harmony and Quality with Solid Edge and CNC Machining Find out how Vermont Violins, a violin shop in Central Vermont, is crafting harmony and quality with Solid Edge and CNC machining. This small but vibrant company reduced production times and...
LCN Mecánica
Automotive mechanical parts supplier uses Solid Edge and NX to accelerate machine programming time LCN Mecánica shifts its focus to align with ever-increasing market changes, enabling the factory to move toward mass producing complex powertrain systems with the...
Piper Aircraft
Aircraft manufacturer uses NX CAD and Teamcenter to develop wing that increases fuel payload by 35 percent Using Teamcenter and the digital thread enables Piper to organize all the parts, design the build assembly, etc. It connects all the departments, including...
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing
Leveraging technology to maintain competitive advantage on the Formula One racetrack In racing, success depends on designing and building a competitive car for the first race, and then developing it to perform even better through a series of engineering upgrades for...
Bye Aerospace
Airplane manufacturer reduces product development time for all-electric composite aircraft The eFlyer 2 is an all-composites airplane with advanced aerodynamics, high technology and the latest in avionics. The company used several solutions from Siemens Digital...
Maya HTT acquires Acuity, expands its expertise in the engineering software industry
Maya HTT, industry-leading engineering software developer and services provider, acquired Acuity Solutions Incorporated (Acuity), a provider of Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions, consulting, maintenance, training and support services. The acquisition will...
Jet fan placement ensures optimal air quality and flow
Maya HTT’s expertise proved invaluable in validating the ventilation system configuration. Their analysis provided the confirmation and confidence needed to pursue and achieve significant energy- and cost-efficiency improvements. Marc-André Sabourin Vice-President,...
Maya HTT acquires LMGI, expands its expertise in the engineering software industry
Maya HTT, industry-leading engineering software developer and services provider, acquired LMGI, another engineering services provider. The acquisition will extend Maya HTT’s service offering and enhance its position as a valued Siemens Digital Industries Software...
Magellan Aerospace
Magellan Aerospace, in its efforts to build innovative solutions for space missions, sought Maya HTT’s expertise to improve the structural components of the CASSIOPE spacecraft and RADARSAT Constellation Mission satellites. These two projects used simulation and...
Bauer Hockey
About Bauer Hockey Industry Consumer Products & Retail Quick Facts Optimized thermal cycle } Curing time reduced by 30% Increased productivity I would like to thank the team of Maya HTT’s engineers for their excellent work. The results...
Ingenuity, dedication, and a passion for better: Win-win-win for our clients, our partner, and our team
As we look back on 2019, we are grateful for the opportunities we have had to grow and help our clients succeed. This year was particularly special for Maya HTT, as Siemens Digital Industries Software awarded us several awards for our contribution in sales, our...
If you can think it, we can simulate it
Imagine, for a moment, the kinds of buildings and infrastructure that would be needed to support a thriving human colony on Mars. How could we engineer safe and comfortable living conditions for such an inhospitable environment? As remote as a future colony on Mars...Simcenter STAR-CCM+ Discrete Element Method
Course Code: TR09323-GH Software/Version: Simcenter STAR-CCM+ 13.02 Language: English User Level: Advanced List Price: $2,200.00 (USD) Price may not include taxes applicable to your billing region Training Center Duration: 2 Days WHO SHOULD ATTEND Suited for engineers...
Zero-Emissions Innovation
The Lion Electric Co. worked with Maya HTT to identify the best digital analysis tool for optimizing the battery design for their zero-emissions school bus. In pursuing the goal of improving society, the environment and quality of life, this avant-garde company based...
The challenge: Create the ultimate touring kayak.
TRAK Kayaks and the Composites Innovation Centre designed a kayak that is exceptionally strong and lightweight and doesn’t sacrifice on price point or performance. Their comprehensive redesign of the kayak ribs created a portable kayak that exceeds expectations...
Olympic Renovation
Maya HTT was hired by the Régie des installations olympiques (RIO) to perform the thermo-fluid analysis needed to improve the heating and ventilation systems of the newly renovated Olympic Stadium Tower and avoid any risk of condensation. Maya HTT is proud to have...
Chromalloy: Quality and Innovation
Chromalloy is an integrated solutions provider and one of the world’s largest providers of advanced coatings and authorized repairs and parts for gas turbine engines in the power and aerospace industries, including military and commercial aircraft markets. Focused on...
Boost to Your Innovation Strategy with Design Space Exploration
This Siemens’ Community blog post takes a close look at a subject Maya HTT knows well: How digital twins and design space exploration can boost your innovation strategy and help you discover more efficient solutions. Learn about the four steps to discovering...
Sustainable Transportation – Revealing an Electric Cover Story
The latest issue of Siemens’ Engineer Innovation magazine (Issue #3) features the Lion Electric Co., with a close look at how this sustainability-minded company successfully modeled and optimized its battery design and thermal management. Lion Electric relied on...
Newport News Shipbuilding
Paperless shipbuilding Newport News Shipbuilding uses Siemens software to help steer the Ford class aircraft carriers on a new course of digital transformation. With the goal of creating its first “paperless” ship, the company is digitalizing its entire process, from...
Hyundai Heavy Industries
World’s number-one shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries’ (HHI) Shipbuilding Division, based in South Korea, is the world’s largest shipbuilding company. With ten large-scale docks and nine “Goliath” cranes, it has the ability to customize ships according to different...
De Voogt Naval Architects
Customer-driven designs “Our customers’ wishes are sacred,” explains Pieter Schouten, ICT manager at De Voogt Naval Architects. “The fact that we can fulfill those wishes is our competitive edge.” The perfection required by the customer begins at the earliest stage of...
Simulating to the Moon and Mars
Humanity’s quest to explore the far reaches of our solar system promises to yield great opportunities for discovery, research and testing, and could open the door to building life-sustaining outposts and developing new economies. However, space exploration brings with...
RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites launch
This week, the three RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellites are set to launch into orbit. This ambitious mission will provide coverage of 90% of the planet’s surface to deliver essential observation data on the Earth’s environment. Together, these satellites...
Simcenter Femap Version 2019.1 What’s New
We’re pleased to announce the release of Simcenter Femap version 2019.1! Simcenter Femap is now being released on a biannual schedule in April and October, beginning with version 2019.1. The software is now referred to as Simcenter Femap to reflect that it is a...
Maya HTT wins 2018 Simcenter partner award
Congratulation to the whole Maya HTT team for these outstanding achievements: 2018 Simcenter Partner Award, 2018 Simcenter Competitive Win Award and 2018 Top Marketing Program Award. Thank you Siemens Digital Industries Software for helping us becoming the best!
Zipline International
During Zipline’s early years, the company used relatively inexpensive but very basic computer-aided design(CAD) package but soon realized its limitations when it came to practical applications. Engineers found it difficult to use because it could not handle a lot of...
Miele
It is essential to adapt the frequently changing hydraulic conditions of the rack, and to understand the cleaning pressure required during the operating state inside each rack. The cleaning pressure results from the intersection point of the hydraulic resistance curve...
Engineering Bureau Mühlhoff
The desire to work faster and more accurately led Mühlhoff to consider moving to the type of high-end modeling software he saw used in other industries. Knowing that accurate, easy-to-use surface modeling was his most critical need, Mühlhoff evaluated two systems,...
Huazhong University
On August 28, 2014, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology HUST-Siemens Digital Industries Software Joint Laboratory for Digital Shipbuilding was officially unveiled at the institution’s School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (NAOE), and Siemens...
Daewoo Shipbuilding
To help fulfill company objectives, Daewoo Shipbuilding recently signed a three-year memorandum of understanding with Siemens Digital Industries Software to help develop a digital production support system. The company is focused on building a “digital shipyard” by...
Liebherr Group
One of the examples of the design paradigm shift is the R 9XX, a Liebherr hybrid excavator displayed at the Bauma 2013 International Trade Fair for Construction Machinery. This cutting-edge machine combines a standard diesel engine with hydraulic and electrical energy...
Foton Lovol
While the R&D operations frequently share and borrow data from different product lines, managers wondered how to encourage secure data re-use and reap cost savings. Foton Lovol’s operations had used the concept of “one bill for one vehicle” bill of materials...
John Harder & Company
The company recently adopted Solid Edge Simulation to extend its engineering capabilities with integrated stress analysis. “Manual stress analysis is time-consuming to verify alone, so we added Solid Edge Simulation about three years ago,” Peterson says. “We use...
Siemens Industrial
Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Teamcenter is the world’s most widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) system. Featuring a complete service-oriented architecture (SOA), easy-to-use interface and comprehensive end-to-end PLM solution set, the use of...
Hydro-Québec
Using Simcenter testing solutions from the Simcenter™ portfolio, Hydro-Quebec measures and analyzes the vibration levels of the turbines. A typical test campaign takes up to 10 days to complete. Since some measurements cannot be performed when turbines are in...
Siemens Energy
Siemens, a world leader in the energy industry, delivers solutions for the production of oil and gas, power generation, and the transmission and distribution of electrical energy. The Siemens Energy Fossil Power Generation Division offers highly efficient products and...
Amber Enterprises India
The company used Teamcenter foundation and engineering process management for NX data, which provided tight integration of Teamcenter and NX. The open architecture and flexibility of Teamcenter enabled the Amber team to seamlessly manage all its data and do away with...
Bosch
BSH’s operations are geographically dispersed because the company has grown through acquisitions over the years. As far back as the 1990s, management realized the need for a global collaborative environment that would allow designers at different locations to benefit...
Wieland Electric
Wieland Electric is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of electrical connection technology. Its gesis product line, a “pluggable” installation system for electrical facility management, offers convincing advantages: preassembled cables and components can be...
Trek Bicycle
While not everyone may think of bicycles as high-tech products, bike design involves complex physics and frequently unknown interactions among multiple physical phenomena. A key challenge is the tradeoff between aerodynamic efficiency optimization and comfort and ride...
Montreal Biodome
Maya HTT has been mandated for a thermo-fluid analysis to determine the exact causes of thermal events. Their involvement and recommendations in the project helped to understand and validate the assumptions in relation to very complex thermal problems. Everything is...
Hendrick Motorsports
Hendrick Motorsports Premier NASCAR team uses lessons learned as catalyst for improvement. Hendrick Motorsports leverages NX CAE for forensic failure analysis and developing improved components Decoding the mechanics of a failure Hendrick Motorsports is a critically...
Fire Hazard Regulations and How Wastewater Facilities Should Deal With Them
Although rare, fire-related accidents do occur in wastewater treatment and collection facilities. Chlorine, ammonia, methane and hydrogen sulfide can quickly build up in confined spaces. Volatile conditions in hazardous locations can lead to catastrophe. The National...
Crypto Farms a Lot of Hot Air?
Has the crypto farming bubble finally popped? Given the recent crypto downturn, some people question the value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. A few go as far as to say it is a whole lot of hot air. In one sense, the naysayers are correct. Crypto...
Industrial AI Applications – How Time Series and Sensor Data Improve Processes
(This article was written by TechEmergence Research and originally appeared on: https://www.techemergence.com/industrial-ai-applications-time-series-sensor-data-improve-processes/) Over the past decade the industrial sector has seen major advancements in automation...
Still Using Hand Calculations for Thermal Analysis?
Compared to construction costs, the price of a simulation is minimal, and doing the calculations by hand can result in the design being off by 50% or more. For a large building, the cost savings can be over $100,000. That’s a no-brainer, right? When you’re doing a...
What’s new in Femap v.12
Femap™ software version 12 is the latest release of the standalone finite element modeling pre- and postproces-sor for engineering simulation and analysis. Femap is CAD-independent and can import geometry from all major CAD platforms and supports most CAD...
Sansera Engineering
Global automotive and aerospace parts manufacturer uses Plant Simulation to optimize production efficiency Sansera Engineering (Sansera) is a global engineering company that manufactures complex precision engineered components for automotive and aerospace original...
ATK Aerospace Group
Integrated design and analysis pays off on the design of NASA’s next-generation launch vehicle Use of NX CAE for motion and finite element analysis – in an integrated process managed with Teamcenter – helped engineers ensure that a larger nozzle won’t hit launch-pad...
What’s New in SATK 7.0
All Processors Groups are imported from SET cards in a selected Nastran .dat file. Sine Processor The sine processor has undergone a major overhaul and its interface is more intuitive. Results The sine processor now computes peak results over selected frequencies and...
NASA JPL
How can the thermal design and analysis of the Mars Science Laboratory proceed concurrently with the mechanical design? Complex CAD geometry poses several challenges to the thermal engineer. How can the thermal design and analysis of the Mars Science Laboratory...
Validating a Simplified FEM using Simcenter FE Model Update
Quick OverviewIt is often required to create lightweight, simplified versions of large FEMs in order to reduce solution time or post-processing effort. A common simplification technique that can be used with relatively slender parts is midsurfacing. Whereas plate...
Correlating Simulation & Modal Test Results with Simcenter 3D
Quick Overview A powerful way of reducing design conservatism is to validate the finite element model used to simulate its performance. Comparing the simulation model’s natural frequencies and mode shapes with those acquired in test generates confidence in the...
How to map flow forces to a structural analysis in Simcenter
Quick Overview Simcenter offers a dedicated application to map steady state or transient flow results onto a target model, typically an independent structural model from the same geometry but with a different mesh. For example, one could be interested in the stress...
How to simulate delamination using cohesive elements in Simcenter Multiphysics
Quick Overview Cohesive elements are special-purpose 3D elements used to model adhesive joint failure as well as delamination of composite plies. You can create cohesive elements between pairs of geometric surfaces and between specific plies, in both the Simcenter...
Wirth Research
Wirth Research puts Acura in Sebring pole position with integrated NX CAE tools. Development in the digital domain Darren Davies, engineering manager at Wirth Research, notes, “We were charged by Honda Performance Development with designing the all-new Acura to take...
How to create 3D solid mesh for a sandwich composite laminated car hood using Simcenter Laminate Composites
Quick Overview Sandwich panels are prevalent in many structural applications. The panel facesheets react the membrane and bending loads, whereas the core reacts the bulk of the transverse shear loads. Therefore, you may use the solid mesh to get better results in the...
How to perform random analysis of mixed laminated composite – metallic structures
Quick Overview The laminate dynamic simulation random event reads the results from an NX Nastran SOL 103 real eigenvalues solution and uses an efficient modal approach and advanced integration algorithms to efficiently produce accurate peak responses that correspond...
Approaches to Laminate Buckling with Simcenter
Quick Overview Although it is well known that Simcenter supports linear buckling solutions (SOL 105), some engineers are reluctant to use this method for composite laminate, based on the perception that the linear buckling analysis does not adequately account for the...
How to preview NX NASTRAN contact and glue regions
Quick Overview When you define a contact or glue condition in your model, NX Nastran internally creates contact or glue elements using the contact or glue regions you select as well as the search distance that you define. Although these contact or glue elements may...
How to create a 4D field in Simcenter
Quick Overview You may have to define a load or a boundary condition that not only varies as a function of spatial coordinates, but also with time, temperature, or frequency. This Tips & Trick shows how to use Simcenter to create a 4D field, which allows you to...
Maya HTT gets rewarded for its hard work with an award from Siemens
Maya HTT gets rewarded for its hard work with an award from Siemens at the annual partner conference!
How to optimize a laminate in Simcenter
Quick Overview Simcenter Laminate Composites (LC) allows you to optimize the fundamental properties of a laminate coupon- for example, increasing its modulus in the X direction, minimizing its mass or its thermal expansion- by modifying ply angles, ply thickness, ply...
Maya HTT Selected by Spike Aerospace to help develop the first Supersonic Business Jet
July 11 2016 – Maya HTT Inc. is pleased to announce that it will provide support to Spike Aerospace Inc. to help develop the world’s first supersonic business jet and its digital twin. The complexity of delivering a Supersonic Jet like Spike S-512...
Quickly Determine Laminate Coupon Test Loads using NX Laminate Composites
Demo Video: Quick Overview NX Laminate Composites (NXLC) allows you to easily define laminates, assign them to 2D or 3D meshes of complex geometries, and post-process composite failure metrics. For simple parts like test coupons, creating a FEM is not required, as...
How to drive NX expressions from a spreadsheet
Tips and tricks for easily updating your FEM using NX expressions Discover a quick and painless way to update your finite element model (FEM). With NX expressions, you can define all your required parameters in one spreadsheet, and then update the FEM with a single...
Polygon Bodies and Mirroring in NX Post
Description This Tips & Trick shows how to display polygon bodies together with results in the NX post-processor. It also shows how to activate Mirror Display. We will explore these functionalities on a Battle Droid model, on which a modal analysis was performed....
Accommodating 3rd Party CAD Design Changes without Simulation Model Re-Work
Demo Video Associative 3rd Party CAD Geometry A common limitation when accessing CAD data from a CAE tool is the inability to support design changes with automated updates of the idealized CAE geometry, mesh, loads, and constraints. The idealized CAE geometry must be...
Mapping Polygon Faces to CAD Faces within a NXOpen framework
Quick Overview This Tips & Trick shows how to map Polygon Faces (i.e., CAE faces) to CAD Faces. Given a CAD Face in the Modeling application, what is its corresponding CAE Face in the Advanced Simulation application ? Core content How to find the corresponding CAE...
How to optimize the stiffness of sandwich structures
Finding optimal rigidity One common misunderstanding about sandwich structures leads many designers to overestimate overall stiffness or to stiffen sandwich structures in a less than optimal fashion. In this article, we expose the true behavior of sandwich structures...
Flow-induced vibrations
Author: Zouya Zarei Zouya is a Thermal Flow Application Engineer at MAYA Heat Transfer Technologies based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has long fostered a fascination with fluid dynamics, which ultimately led to higher studies in computational fluid dynamics. He...
NX Customization – Easy steps to improve productivity
Quick Overview When assembling parts, creating and editing meshes and setting-up simulations, NX tools are often used repetitively. Even though all tools are easily accessible via the top menu and ribbon bar, you can improve your productivity by customizing your...
Efficient PostProcessing for Composites with Femap
Quick Overview This post-processing Tip & Trick will show how to efficiently use predefined Femap API and a customized toolbar for laminates. This example, created in Femap 11.22, shows a 2D laminate mudguard model. Figure 1 & Figure 2 are showing ply failure...
