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How to Optimize Oil and Gas Refinery Operation Profits with Engineering Simulation
Although the price of gasoline has increased significantly, there is continued downward price pressure on petroleum products that are used in the chemical industry, because consumers and distributors have been able to keep consumer product prices low. Therefore, minimizing unplanned down-time while keeping operational and utility costs at a minimum is critical to business.
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Innovation in Building Design through Engineering Simulation
In today's world, engineers and architects increasingly employ engineering simulation to enable the design of atria, auditoriums, buildings, stadiums and sports arenas to meet energy-efficiency and sustainability goals within strict project timelines. Engineering simulation software is used to create a virtual prototype of a building or interior space on a computer, and calculate the heating, cooling and ventilation performance. This virtual building design approach leads to the rapid investigation of alternative designs and a better understanding of the design elements that can improve building performance, and allows the design team to more easily explore innovative solutions while reducing their exposure to risk.
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The Competitive Edge: Design Innovation with Simulation Driven Product Development
Advanced analysis technology helps develop winning products that differentiate manufacturers and bring more revenue to the bottom line. Innovate or evaporate. That’s the new business imperative. Until recently, getting a product to market faster, cheaper and better than the competition usually was good enough. Not any more. Now in addition to time to market, cost and quality, manufacturers must focus on innovation: designs that take the market by storm along with leading-edge development processes that transform conceptual ideas into saleable, reliable and cost-effective products.
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A New Spin on Appliances
A leading manufacturer reduces time in the development of innovative ovens, washing machines and other appliances through engineering simulation.
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Bladeless is More
Dramatic efficiencies give engineers freedom to creatively explore new ideas for unique products.
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Cost-Effective Innovation
Best-in-class companies systematically integrate simulation with design processes to succeed in a turbulent economy.
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Cutting Extrusion Die Design Costs
By reducing the number of trial-and-error prototypes, simulation can save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually in designing PVC extrusion dies.
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Drilling into the Heart of Direct Modeling
Direct modeling enhances engineering analysis throughput at a hydraulic drilling rig manufacturer.
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Performance under Pressure
CCI substantially reduced warranty repair costs by using fluids simulation to upgrade the design of its control valves.
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Taming the Cost of Respiratory Drug Development
Computer modeling and simulation help researchers to better visualize pulmonary functions for faster, less expensive clinical testing of innovative respiratory drugs.
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Overcoming Big Challenges for Small Turbojet Engines
In developing an impeller for a microjet turbine engine for unmanned drone aircraft, engineers used FEA to reduce stresses by 20 percent, prevent fatigue in high-speed rotating parts and study resonances in the assembly..
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Leveraging the Full Power of Simulation
An industry expert looks at changes in engineering analysis and ways that companies can maximize benefits of the technology. Ubaldo Barberis, a university educator and manager of Structural Analysis and Scientific Calculation at Ansaldo Group, discusses how industry has benefited from virtual prototyping over the last 30 years.
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Star Light
Engineering simulation will save $5 million in construction costs for a massive telescope that will allow astronomers to peer back into the formation of galaxies.
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Robots Race to the Moon
Engineering simulation plays key role in developing a robot for a $20 million international lunar competition.
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Making the Switch
Optimizing a seemingly simple electrical switch device assembly through simulation saves time and reduces costs.
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Steaming Ahead with Turbomachinery Simulation
Engineers gain valuable insight into design of a complex steam turbine by employing simulation.
Software from ANSYS has helped engineers at BHEL to gain important insight into the performance of one of its utility system steam turbines.
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Computer Simulation Helps Optimize Boiler Efficiency While Reducing Prototype Cost
The engineering team used a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software solution to simulate and highlight the performance of the designs, specifically the effects on fluid flow patterns and heat transfer and to guide the selection of a final set of prototypes in order to choose the most efficient and economical design.
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Designing for Quality
Simulation paired with optimization helps eliminate compressor blade failure.
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Driving for Durability
E-Z-GO engineers quickly and accurately design a reliable utility vehicle part that saves manufacturing costs.
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Fan of Simulation
Voith Turbo reduces costs while developing quiet fans by simulating a complete railcar cooling system.
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Flow Modeling Helps Fan Engineering Company Save $150,000 in Prototyping & Testing Costs
Engineers at AcoustiFLO systematically evaluated a large number of design changes before testing a prototype, verified that ANSYS FLUENT model predictions were sufficiently close to prototype test results, discovered unexpected interactions between the diffuser and the impeller that would have been difficult to assess with physical testing only, and developed a prototype design with optimum performance.
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Keeping Cool in the Field
A communications systems company gains millions of dollars by using thermal simulation to bring tactical radios to market faster.
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Leveraging Upfront Simulation in a Global Enterprise
Corporate initiative at Delphi focuses on the benefits of simulation as an integral part of early product design at sites around the world.
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Managing Heat with Multiphysics
Multiphysics simulation helps a global company design better electrical products.
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Opening New Doors: Brose uses simulation to drive product quality, reduce testing and minimize costs.
ANSYS Advantage staff recently interviewed Sandro Wartzack, a simulation and knowledge-based engineering manager at Brose. Dr. Wartzack completed one of the first Ph.D.s in Germany for the integration of finite element analysis (FEA) methods in combination with knowledge-based engineering into design processes.
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Simulation-Based Lifecycle Cost Management
Peregrine Consulting provides design and analysis consulting services for the aerospace industry in areas such as turbine engine development, unmanned aerial vehicle design, engine systems integration and fatigue life studies. In one major project, the company has been engaged by the U.S. Air Force to investigate the feasibility of performing real-time stress and life analysis of jet aircraft engine turbine components based on as-flown conditions. Researchers at Peregrine Consulting determined that the most suitable technology to use as a basis for such a lifecycle cost management tool is finite element analysis.
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