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Simcenter Amesim Climate Control
Ensuring sufficient loop performance to provide optimal passenger comfort The Simcenter™ Amesim™ software Climate Control solution helps you study and optimize the performance and power consumption...
How to… Assess aircraft cabin cooling sizing with Simcenter Amesim
Addressing environmental control systems design challenges Specifications for large civil ai rplanes (such as FAR-25 or JAR/CS-25), aircraft environmental control systems (ECS) must ensure adequate...
Describing Sounds with Words
Ever tried to describe the unusual sound a product makes with words? Check out this reference (with example sounds) to decide the best word to describe what you are hearing. These words are...
Simcenter Amesim enables off-highway equipment manufacturer to streamline hydraulic component development
Liebherr Group uses Siemens Digital Industries Software solution to enhance collaboration among its company sites Increasing efficiency Just like car makers, off-highway equipment manufacturers must...
Discover the Simcenter SCADAS family
Whether in the lab or in the field, Simcenter SCADAS hardware has been designed to suit every testing job. Depending on your application, opt for Simcenter SCADAS Lab, SCADAS Recorder, SCADAS...
Three most effective noise control methods to reduce product noise
Noise levels and sound quality are important characteristics in all kinds of home appliances and white goods. Reducing noise in consumer products is complex and often there are multiple solutions....
Are our inventions making us deaf?
Noise levels and human deafness have both increased dramatically in the last century.Before you start reading this blog, I encourage you to pause and take in the noise around you. What do you hear?...
[What’s New] Simcenter SCADAS RS for rugged data acquisition
Discover Simcenter SCADAS RS, the brand-new powerful and precise data acquisition system for fast and accurate testing under demanding conditions. Watch the video for a quick introduction:Siemens...
The 5 challenges affecting electric vehicle design and development
Our automotive engineering experts share their insights into the challenges of electric vehicle design and development.Have you considered purchasing an electric car as your next vehicle? Chances...
Building a coffee-machine model in Simcenter Amesim
Simcenter Amesim is a system simulation platform which allows you developing a Digital Twin of a product which behaves very similar to a real product. Such a machine is built from components which...
Construction equipment manufacturer uses Simcenter durability solutions to improve equipment performance
Siemens Digital Industries Software solutions enable Hidromek to reduce measurement times by 50 percent The Simcenter solution is easy to use in every way and has really helped us exceed our goals...
Small-engine manufacturer uses Simcenter Testlab and Simcenter SCADAS to achieve product goals early in the development cycle
Siemens Digital Enterprise Software solutions enable Briggs & Stratton to save testing and postprocessing time during analysis With Simcenter Testlab, the data is in the tree, you drag it over,...
What’s new: Simcenter Testlab 2021.1
New times bring innovation, but also new demands. There is a need to achieve realistic and predictive results more efficiently than ever before. Test teams are now working closely together with...
Home appliance manufacturer optimizes acoustics and vibration product testing with Simcenter Testlab
BSH uses Simcenter solutions for advanced sound quality engineering and efficient product development Simcenter allows us to strongly correlate simulations with experimental tests that are very...
A day of Heavy Equipment NVH Testing activities
Past years, the heavy equipment market has been growing world-wide. Most importantly in rapidly emerging economies, agriculture and construction machines play a crucial role in economic growth....
Rotor dynamics analysis in 3 easy steps
Whirl, whip, rub, cracks, bow… Is that all turning well? Optimize your rotor dynamics analysis! Are you working with industrial pumps or any rotor type of systems? Then you have surely been exposed...
Use of Simcenter enables manufacturer to significantly reduce compressor testing time
Thanks to Simcenter Testxpress, we were able to increase our testing efficiency and managed to reach an important NVH signoff point in less than 50 percent of the time it would have taken before...
[TECH TIP Simcenter Sound Camera] Localizing sound sources on a dryer
In this video, we demonstrate how to localize the sound source using a Sound Camera on a dryer machine. Watch Now Fill in the form to download the white paper!Mechatronic, model-based simulation...
BSIM announces collaboration in Manta’s revolutionary HeV/STOL urban air mobility project
„Look! Up in the sky!” “It’s a bird!” “It’s a plane, it’s …” In the 1978 movie, it wasn’t a plane - it was Superman. Now, in 2020, it’s the Manta’s ANN 2 HeV/STOL. A cross-over between a...
Construction tools manufacturer uses Simcenter testing solutions to enhance product durability and quality
Simcenter™ helps us set up quick and reliable component tests with minimal effort. All necessary functions are integrated within one software solution, making data conversion unnecessary. Matthias...
Working from home – how does that sound to you?
Now that most of us are working from home, we all need to adapt to this new office environment. Walking to our office desk literally takes a minute, being only a few steps away from our breakfast...
MBST: the marriage of Test and Simulation – part 1
I had a very interesting conversation with a friend. He wanted to buy a car and he was quite sure about which one he wanted to purchase,… right up until the moment he realized that they offered an...
Future-ready: simulation and testing as part of a core engineering education
In our first Simcenter™ for Academia blog post, we talked about the future of engineering in these challenging times and how to bridge the skills gap between what is taught in class and what is...
What would win in a race, Ice Cream or Apple Sauce?
Better eat this quick!! Remember back to your school days when lunch times were often filled with such philosophical questions as; who would win a fight between a dinosaur and a truck? Or why is...
Home appliances. From noise reduction to sound quality.
What is the first thing you do when entering the hotel room after a long and exhausting flight? Maybe you want to go straight to bed? Or finish that Powerpoint presentation for your meeting...
Will the next-generation aircraft meet the challenges of airworthiness certification?
Join aviation expert Raphaël Hallez to discuss the challenges of airworthiness certification in next-generation aircraft. The world of aviation is evolving. Manufacturers of next-generation aircraft...
5 reasons why superior vehicle durability matters
Vehicle durability is still as important today as it was yesterday. Understand why it still matters in 2020 and learn about the latest technologies that help you meet strength and durability...
Simcenter Sound Camera | Accelerating acoustic troubleshooting
Accelerate your acoustic troubleshooting with fast and versatile sound source localization. Understanding the source of noise Sound is all around us, especially in the products we interact with...
Simcenter FLOEFD 2020.2: What’s New?
The latest release of CAD-embedded Simcenter™ FLOEFD™ 2020.2 is here! Simcenter FLOEFD is a CAD-embedded computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solution. Due to its unique technology, it can reduce the...
Homag AG gains processing precision with testing solutions from Siemens Digital Industries Software
Simcenter software solution enables the global manufacturer to create high-speed milling machines for the furniture industry As we prepare to embrace Industry 4.0, move away from mass production and...
Towards safe and autonomous drones with COMP4DRONES
The contribution of Simcenter Amesim to the European research project COMP4DRONES Introduction The other day, I was enjoying a summer afternoon in the city’s park with family and friends, when my...
Virtual Sensors accuracy improved by Test and Simulation
Industrial trends Automotive manufacturers are in a growing need to improve efficiency in their vehicle development process. This new challenge is a consequence of trends in the automotive industry,...
SimRod experience: Mode shapes in modal analysis need test-calibration
Ever heard of “Range anxiety”? The Wikipedia definition of this new term is “fear that a vehicle has insufficient range to reach its destination and would thus strand the vehicle’s occupants.” The...
How artificial neural networks aid in mechatronic system development
Artificial neural networks are a backbone behind many data-driven artificial intelligence applications. Their popularity has grown in different domains, from speech recognition through image...
Can this little turbo-expander help save the planet?
A small British start-up uses cutting-edge engineering in air cycle refrigeration to improve engine efficiency Unlike most start-ups, Chris Whelan and Steve Hinton have plus-or-minus 130* years of...
Chengdu: Multi-attribute balancing for better electric vehicles
In the first blog of this series, we discussed the new engineering center in Chengdu, China — an innovative leader when it comes to vehicle electrification. We have since discussed various labs,...
[TECH TIP] Component-based Transfer Path Analysis (TPA) explained
An educational video explaining the Component-based Transfer Path Analysis (TPA) method. By isolation components and combining TPA data with test and simulation data in a modular way, engineers can...
What’s new in Simcenter system simulation solutions 2020.1?
Accelerate innovation with application specific workflows With the 2020.1 release of Simcenter™ system simulation solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software continues to keep pace with the...
Commission your machine before building a prototype
Overcoming 30-year-old legacy On a client factory floor after erecting a new machine over two weeks, the senior start-up manager and his team are busy launching cold & hot testing. The next step...
From heavy equipment component design to system integration with Simcenter Amesim
The strong footprint of Simcenter Amesim in heavy equipment companies. The Simcenter Amesim software (previously known as AMESim 95-2007 and LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim 2007-2017) capabilities have been...
Small engines we all use: could they be quieter?
We all use small engines for all sorts of tasks — think about your neighbor’s on-going pool construction, your aunt’s farming duties, or when you mow your own backyard’s lawn. Now think about the...
All you need to know about vehicle active sound design
The growing electrification trend in the automotive industry is noticeably reshaping vehicle development. This new power train concept has a direct impact on other vehicle performance aspects and...
Drive innovation with system simulation
Innovate products without compromising time-to-market and quality by using the leading integrated, scalable system simulation platform. Simcenter Amesim helps you gain efficiency throughout the...
Voice of customer – Why heavy machinery industry should move to system simulation
Bertrand Grison is the founder of the Hynovium company, and supports with his team heavy equipment industrials players to move towards more sustainable development of their machine. We take the time...
Surviving the New Competitive Landscape in Food and Beverage
The Competitive Landscape is Changing Things are changing rapidly in the Food and Beverage industry.Today’s leaders are facing new pressure as markets evolve to a more global, omnichannel...
Digital Enterprise: A “Natural” Transformation for the Medical Device Industry
Thought Leadership The core concepts of Digital Enterprise involving digital threads and digital twins are well understood by Medical Device manufacturers. As a consequence of regulatory mandates...
How to virtually evaluate thousands of vehicle configurations?
Carmakers use system simulation to virtually balance performance attributes taking into account not only the performance of vehicle subsystems but also control strategies. However, today, a large...
Discover the design exploration tools of Simcenter Amesim
[TECH TIPS VIDEO] – Discover the design exploration tools of Simcenter Amesim We’ve created a set of “how to” movies, aiming at introducing you with our latest capabilities. These short,...
How to virtually evaluate thousands of vehicle configurations?
Carmakers use system simulation to virtually balance performance attributes taking into account not only the performance of vehicle subsystems but also control strategies. However today, a large...
Dig where you stand with our new digging force model
My former manager used to say: “dig where you stand” when I was trying to improve the entire company’s processes. He meant that I had more impact focusing on the things I’m responsible for rather...