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Reducing iterations for developing a new hydrogen valve
CASE STUDYOMB Saleri uses Simcenter to predict valve behavior and rapidly develop innovative productsOMB Saleri OMB Saleri designs complex valves for gasses or fluids at low, medium and high...
Using Simcenter STAR-CCM+ and HEEDS to help deliver comfortable, efficient heating to homes
CASE STUDYSiemens solutions enable FIME to surpass industry standard by three-fold for boiler modulation ratioFIME FIME is an Elica brand that has more than 40 years of experience in the design and...
The Colors of Hydrogen: Understanding Its Role in a Net-Zero Future
Roses are red, violets are blue, but hydrogen has many hues—each with a story to tell. Today, 95% of global hydrogen production comes from fossil fuels, releasing a staggering 830 million tonnes of...
Hydrogen Plant Production Simulation with Simcenter Amesim
Did you know that producing 1 kilogram of green hydrogen requires up to 50 kilowatt-hours of electricity? You can see why efficient energy is key to making hydrogen a sustainable energy source! So,...
Why Hydrogen’s Colors Matter for Our Net-Zero Future
Roses are red, violets are blue, but hydrogen has many hues—each with a story to tell. Today, 95% of global hydrogen production comes from fossil fuels, releasing a staggering 830 million…
Harnessing Clean Hydrogen: Overcoming Production Challenges with Digitalization
The Hydrogen OpportunityHydrogen has emerged as a cornerstone for achieving decarbonization and meeting global climate goals. By 2050, clean hydrogen could account for 100% of hydrogen…
Simcenter Amesim 2D Converting Library
This application provides a model library for simulation of a converting machine based on detailed physical models of its components within Simcenter Amesim. The 2D Converting library allows to...
What’s new in Simcenter Systems simulation 2310
Learn more on the Simcenter Systems simulation 2310 releaseThe newest update of Simcenter Systems simulation release 2310, has arrived and it’s packed with great new features to help you tackle your...
Ariston Group success story
CASE STUDYDeveloping sustainable thermal comfort solutions, with system simulationAriston Group A leading company in its field, Ariston Group is a multinational corporation providing hi-tech,...
Use a digital twin to overcome pump pressure pulsation
Save time by simulating the dynamic behavior of a triple screw pump without computational fluid dynamicsNowadays Pumps suppliers need to satisfy a variety of criteria such as increasing regulations...
Aircraft ground vibration testing
Enhancing the efficiency of aircraft structural dynamics testingAircraft ground vibration testing (GVT) is a major milestone in the airworthiness certification process. GVT delivers experimental...
Getting the most out of pumps and compressors
Nowadays rotary machinery suppliers need to satisfy a variety of criteria such as increasing regulations for noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH), emissions, and safety and reducing energy...
And the winner is…BSIM!
BSIM named Top European Partner for Simulation and Test 2022. Like we do every year, last week our team headed to the Siemens Converge 2023 Partner Leadership Summit. Our colleagues Deniz and Luigi...
Hyundai Heavy Industries: progressing towards a greener and smarter marine industry with Siemens by 2025.
A New Partnership Korean Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering (KSOE) a fully owned subsidiary of HHI made the announcement at Gastech 2022 that they will be developing digital twins for future...
Top 5 – Most annoying sounds
If you ask me, I would nominate “nails on a blackboard.” Admit it, at some point in school, we did this. However, scientific research shows this is only ranked in 5th place. It seems that the sound...
Leveraging simulation to help improve scissor-lift performance while transitioning from an ICE to an electric motor
Haulotte uses Simcenter to increase Pulseo lift maximum working drive height by 25 percent and loading capacity by 50 percen With Simcenter, we went from a 23kW thermal engine to a 12kW electric...
Sound Pressure, Sound Power, and Sound Intensity: What’s the difference?
Confused by acoustic terminology? This article highlights the main differences between the three acoustic terms: sound pressure, sound power, and sound intensity. The article attempts to explain...
Bring your system simulation sketch colorful to life with Sketch Animation
Your sketch is more than a model Working on simulation models can be a highly technical task, where details matter and where decisions heavily impact the success of the product. Experts need to...
what’s new in Simcenter Flomaster 2210
The new release Simcenter System Simulation 2210 is out! This release continues to support engineers working on the most complex and innovative products dealing with the challenges of today and...
What’s new in Simcenter Amesim 2210
The new release Simcenter System Simulation 2210 is out! This release continues to support engineers working on the most complex and innovative products dealing with the challenges of today and...
What’s New: Simcenter Testlab 2206
Designing products today require complex solutions to make them right. Suboptimal performance validation and decision-making done too late in the development cycle can cost time and money. They may...
Propulsion Electrification? Engineering simulation can help!
Find out how simulation can help size and validate new propulsion concepts for aircrafts. Enjoy this selection of webinar replays to know more. ON-DEMAND WEBINAR Learn how system simulation impacts...
Load Data Acquisition with Simcenter SCADAS RS
Load data acquisition is a challenge that many OEMs are confronted with when assessing the performances of their complex machines. Especially in the Heavy Equipment industry and in Off-highway...
[Hyster Yale] How to convert a conventional 120-ton GW lift truck into an electric vehicle?
The strong footprint of Simcenter Amesim in heavy equipment companies The estimated volume of international freight movement for 2020 was around 4 million tons per day. Or an average of 1.3 million...
Simcenter Testlab 2206: new functionalities for NVH testing
Summer is over and days are getting shorter… Do you need a bit of cheer up? Let’s take a break from e-mail sorting and go together through the new Simcenter Testlab Neo functionalities that will...
Pump up the…Water?
How a classic solution can help our need for future energy storage The sun is shining and then it isn’t. The wind is blowing and then it’s not. We learned to capture the energy from these...
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...
Assess the performance of a hydrogen-powered gas turbine
Purpose To comply with environmental regulations and reduce fuel and maintenance costs, airframers and engine manufacturers are turning to cleaner gas turbines as alternatives to kerosene-powered...
The 4 trends you should not miss in NVH engineering
What is the role of noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) engineering in the vehicle development cycle today? How does the discipline adjust to the mega-trends that are affecting the automotive...
Why a vehicle sound simulator can help you define what should come after “vroom”
From VROOM … to Uh … Like anyone, I regularly get the question in private life: “What do you do for a job?” The easiest answer I give to non-technical people in my experience: “I am working with...
Simcenter SCADAS XS helps Agfa Graphics improve efficiency when investigating vibrations and studying dynamic machine behavior
" The use of Simcenter Testlab software working together with the Simcenter SCADAS XS hardware streamlines the diagnostics and troubleshooting." Testing solution from Siemens Digital Industries...
Bell Flight | Quickly identifying and solving design issues | Simcenter Amesim
"Fly it before you build it" Sounds like your typical slogan, but it's kind of true. Hold, on - we can explain. By using engineering simulation in your standard engineering process, you’ll be...
Bring Your Kids to Work Ep.1: The Executable Digital Twin
We recently invited some of our key staff to bring their kids into the office and to try to explain in a child’s terms what they do for work. The results were entertaining, funny, and quite...
What’s new in Simcenter FLOEFD 2205?
In this blog, please explore key enhancements in Simcenter FLOEFD 2205 release new in June 2022. Highlights include: – Faster CFD meshing and handling of complex or low quality CAD Geometry–...
Is e-bike noise an issue? Quit whining!
Spring is here and summer is coming! So after spending (part of) my winter holidays analyzing the vibrations on a snowboard (and proving why it’s better than skiing, check here!), I’ve decided to...
Meet marine regulations … no matter the weather!
Climate change is a challenge looming over human life and ecosystems. Now, the maritime industry faces new challenges to reduce its carbon footprint. Everyone in this industry must comply with...
What’s new in Simcenter System Simulation solutions 2022.1
The Simcenter System Simulation release 2022.1 is here! It delivers the next developments to help you build a comprehensive digital twin strategy and ensure state-of-the-art solutions. Our teams...
GFPS-Global Fluid Power Society PhD Symposium
Napoli – Italy | October 12 – 14, 2022
Congress Centre of the University Federico II
How to create and optimize the design of your external gear pump
Dive into the pump modeling world and find out how the Simcenter Amesim helps you create and optimize the design of your external gear pump. A large number of industries widely use external gear...
Leveraging multidimensional simulation to reduce time-to-market and prototype loops for electric vehicles
GKN has developed standardized models and processes to use in the product development cycle. That way we can use the simulations for each project right from the start and have a validated base for...
Have we grown too comfortable with air conditioning?
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment is thirsty—not for water, but for power. They are true energy gluttons. Staying warm enough is a life necessity and our second continuous...
How to accurately identify the battery model parameters while saving engineering time
Discover how the Simcenter Amesim Battery Electro-thermal Identification Tool automatically generates the battery equivalent circuit and thermal models, whether from a battery test bench data or...
Simcenter SCADAS XS: Everything you need to know!
Simcenter SCADAS XS: Everything you need to know!The Simcenter SCADAS XS (formerly LMS SCADAS XS) is a handheld data acquisition system (Figure 1). It is capable of acquiring dynamic data...
Torsional Vibration: What is it?
Question: Look at this RPM curve: what is unusual about it? Answer: While the overall rpm increases from 1000 RPM to 3500 RPM, it does not increase steadily. There is a variation (i.e. fluctuation)...
The Sound of Silence – Reduced noise with electric propulsion
With propulsion systems for planes becoming electric, noise pollution from aircraft is expected to be significantly reduced. We decided to put the promise to the test: we compared acoustic levels of...
How to easily control a non-linear system using the extended PID in Simcenter Amesim
Generally, controlling a non-linear system is a difficult task. In case of soft non-linearities, simple controllers like a classic PID (only three parameters to tune) can do the job. However, to...
GENERAL MOTORS: Improving vehicle driveline quality and performance
The Simcenter Amesim models that we build are easy to operate by others and can be integrated into the rest of the system and with the controls. Another user from a different engineering team can...
How end-of-line testing can automate product fault detection
In the automotive sector, end-of-line testing uses vibroacoustic measurements to automatically and objectively detect faulty parts in the production line. Learn how automated measurements can help...
Digitalization for aircraft electrification
Reducing carbon emissions with aircraft electrification Electric cars have been gradually becoming more popular over the last decade. There are now almost 6 million electric cars worldwide. The...
The 747 on the conveyor belt dilemma solved with Simcenter Amesim
With 70% of BSIM's team being engineers, our coffee-break convo is very much on the geeky-techy side. There's always an engineering myth to debunk, a physical phenomenon to disagree upon. And it...