Engineering Simulation Solutions for the Automotive and Ground Transportation Industries

"Product development is much faster, because we do not have to make as many tests in our test bench. The reason being that we can simulate tests using ANSYS simulation programme and choose the best of several alternatives. In many cases we have also been able to reduce material and dimensions after analysing simulated tests."

- Conny Kristensen, Design Department Manager, MONOFLEX AB

"I intensively use Workbench Environment and my overall opinion about it is definitively positive! ANSYS Workbench changed my every day way of working:

• The mesher. It allows me to mesh an engine crankcase in a couple of hours, while it would have taken me about three weeks to do the same with a classic mesher. So now I let Workbench do its job, analyze the model and refine the mesh. I believe this is a much quicker procedure than ruining my days fixing a few thousand of surfaces coming from CAD.
  


• The contact builder. You select the contact areas and Workbench does all the remaining job. But the best feature is the graphical checking, so you'll be sure not to have missed any.
  


• The CAD associativity. The geometry treatment is entirely done inside the CAD package (unless you've got DesignModeler). Once you've modified the geometry, you update your Workbench model without losing all your previous work. ANSYS still lies behind. You can insert sets of generic or APDL commands inside your Workbench model, to specify advanced features you want your model to have."
  
  

"ANSYS and ANSYS Workbench were chosen to be a perfect virtual try out space for TEMSA where new structural designs are being intensely made. Even from the very beginning of product development activities, TEMSA uses ANSYS and Workbench for evaluating and verifying the strength of the structural designs. The activities range from the modal analyses of an engine knuckle to transient analysis of a body frame under tow bar loading conditions, however, the vast majority of structural analyses are usually interpretative linear elastic analyses. The fast analysis of designs in ANSYS’ FEA environment enables us to evaluate the designs and support the designers in a swift manner. Thanks to this opportunity, the failures are foreseen and preventive actions are taken in advance and most probably the final designs are obtained prior to a final real-life test. As a natural consequence, TEMSA saves money and time, and gains substantial benefits by employing the FEA technology using ANSYS."

- Kadir Elitok and Dr. Mehmet Ali Güler, FEA Engineers, TEMSA Product Development Department

"Our customers demand the solution of increasingly complex tasks for industrial robots. Cycle times should be as short as possible and still guarantee the highest precision and reliability. Hence, the consistent use of smoothly communicating 3D-CAx-tools is a vital part of our development process, enabling us to achieve these ambitious goals. By using ANSYS Workbench, we can offer our clients perfect, highly optimized systems at a reasonable cost."

- Bernhard Thaler, FEA simulation manager, Robo-Technology