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Dassault Launches SIMULIA SLM
New suite aimed at bringing simulation into mainstream product development processes
Beth Stackpole, Contributing Editor -- Design News, March 17, 2008
Following up on the groundwork it laid in an announcement last July, SIMULIA, the Dassault Systèmes' brand responsible for realistic simulation tools, rolled out the first piece of its Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM) platform.
SIMULIA SLM leverages the data management, application integration and process automation capabilities of Dassault's ENOVIA PLM platform to help engineering organizations manage all of the data associated with simulations in a central location. The product is the first in a series of new offerings that will integrate the Abaqus simulation tool set, acquired by Dassault in May 2005, directly into the core PLM platform. Along with Abaqus, SIMULIA SLM will also work with third-party simulation applications such as Nastran, HyperMesh, AcuSolve and STAR-CD.
“We're aiming to extend the world ofPLM into the domain of simulation so that simulation results and all the data and processes associated with those results will be better managed and embedded into the mainstream product development process,” says Paul Lalor, product manager for SLM at SIMULIA.
Objects within SIMULIA SLM associate all of the relevant files and attributes related to a simulation and store it in a central database, which is easily accessible by a wider audience of design engineers and not just simulation specialists.
There are strategic benefits to an SLM initiative, according to Chad Jackson, research and service director for the product innovation group at Aberdeen Group. In a recent benchmark study entitled, “Engineering Decision Support Driving Better Product Decisions and Speed to Market,” Aberdeen found best-in-class engineering organizations were interested in SLM as a means to document the reasons behind engineering decisions and leverage intellectual property for subsequent development projects. “The two big strategies they wanted to pursue with this are documenting the relationship between engineering decisions, product data, simulations and test results and correlating tests and simulation results,” he says. “Those don't help you in your current project, but they do help for the next project or the next 10.”
Future plans for SIMULIA SLM include extensions for building automated simulation processes, the ability to create a Simulation Product Structure for fostering reuse and new decision support tools. SIMULIA SLM is currently being deployed at select customer sites and will be out in a generally available release mid-year.
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 Leveraging PLM functionality from ENOVIA, SIMULIA SLM manages data, processes and tools associated with all types of simulation. |
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