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DEP’s Simulation Technology Improves Quality in Manufacturing Industry

Chennai: In the current highly competitive business environment, the manufacturing industry is facing constant challenges of producing innovative products at shortened time-to-market. On the contemporary path, technology transformation pushes past the conventional manufacturing process, innovatively and promptly. The need for efficiency in the manufacturing industry has never been greater and successful companies need to ensure that the costs associated with time, equipment and other investments are being considered and optimized.

Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) proprietary product development platform MeshWorks, is a unique & powerful simulation tool that enables manufacturing organizations to increase throughput, identify process bottlenecks and inefficiencies within the production line. In manufacturing, simulation technology significantly impacts many decisions like project complexities and challenges. With MeshWork’s simulation-driven-design technology opportunities to change the manufacturing processes are made available at the early stages of design & development. This in turn leads to increased structural efficiencies achieved by minimizing the weight of components and assemblies, ultimately resulting in optimized products.

As the use of simulation tools for enhancing product performance increases, there are simultaneous efforts focused on the democratization of simulation, and boosting advanced simulation tactics using multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO), Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), etc. Given MeshWorks’ advancement as an easier and more accessible simulation tool even for non-experts, it is now the choice of the manufacturing organization as an insight provider for a better design and process.

Radha Krishnan, Founder & President, Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) said, “We believe in a stronger integration of DEPMeshWork’s simulation techniques into the design environment, for earlier detection of design improvements in a cost-effective way. We provide guided simulation workflows in MeshWorks for repeatable CAE process applications that can improve efficiency and decrease the overall time needed for simulation-based design, as well as the need of a trained professional to operate it.”

DEPMeshWorks’ manufacturing simulation functions are designed to help improve the life of tooling and reduces manufacturing defects. For manufacturers, it gives real-time inputs to reduce scrap during manufacturing by way of design suggestions like shape effects, structural performances, connection types, joint strength, and joining sequence. Also, there are part level and assembly level assistance programs for manufacturing processes that are applicable based on product development requirements.

DEP’s Full Vehicle Parameterization Technology reduces SUV weight, to making it fuel efficient

Chennai: Increasing emphasis and high expectation on the fuel economy standards have pushed the automotive OEMs globally to optimize their vehicle platforms irrespective of the vehicle footprints. Fuel economy standards have to be achieved with holistically balancing of safety, Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH) and durability performance regulation and requirements. With competitive markets and compressed time to market needs, OEMs are looking for technologies that enable them to cut short their development time or make their current platforms more efficient.

The entire value engineering is divided into three phases by Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) and is Baseline evaluation, Parametrization and Optimization. The DEP technology, proprietory CAE software, MeshWorks and industry leading process have led to a Multi-Disciplinary Optimization approach that has been very well received by OEMs globally.

The technology of parameterizing complete vehicle CAE models using Design Enabled Optimization in DEP MeshWorks and the process of Multi-disciplinary Optimization are the key pieces that deliver value. This CAE driven process has been deployed successfully in both early-stage vehicle development as well as for optimizing existing platforms.

Conventional full vehicle CAE model build is generally driven by CAD data. This process though well-established takes a lot of time. Vehicle manufacturers are constantly looking at technologies that reduce the CAE model to manufacturing time. In yet other perspective, vehicle manufacturers are also looking at technology and tools that can help them quickly build and evaluate concepts.

Detroit Engineered Products(DEP) has been working on a transformational approach to both the conventional CAE model build as well as for early-stage concept model development. For instance, DEP’s CAE model-based Morphing, Merging; Cut & Swap techniques have helped the customers accelerate not only their CAE model build an early-stage concept development timing but also have helped reduce the product development cycle time.

Radha Krishnan, Founder & President, Detroit Engineered Products (DEP) said, “ DEP’s MeshWorks Morpher driven MDO approach has been successfully extended beyond the full vehicle to various other vehicle subsystems as well. This feature-based morphing approach preserves and carries forward the integration and manufacturing best practices with the flexibility to change the shape and sections. Morphing technology and methods from MeshWorks have realized about 60 per cent time-saving in the pre-production design stage of vehicle development. ”