Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research This test project for high-performance computing (HPC) in the cloud was designed to explore how cloud HPC resources can help to speed up and enable high-performance finite element simulations carried out with COMSOL Multiphysics and COMSOL Server. The objective was to find out how HPC cloud providers can augment engineering organizations’ […]
Simulation Is Becoming Democratized—At Last (Part 2)
Two decades after software vendors’ first efforts to put simulation and analysis capabilities in the hands of non-analyst engineers and designers, a wealth of new technological avenues have opened up to finally make this a practical reality. By Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research In the December 2016 issue of Design World, Part 1 of this series […]
Simulation Is Becoming Democratized—At Last (Part 1)
Software choices for simulation continue to expand. Here’s an overview of some of what’s available. By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Two decades ago, engineering software developers launched their first efforts to make simulation and analysis capabilities accessible and safe to use by engineers and designers who were not professionally trained analysts. The result was […]
Mentor Graphics acquisition positions Siemens to become mechatronics engineering powerhouse
By Bruce Jenkins, Ora Research Siemens’ just-announced agreement to acquire EDA software leader Mentor Graphics in a $4.5 billion cash transaction positions the German industrial giant to make itself the unchallenged powerhouse provider of an integrated, end-to-end digital toolset chain for mechatronics product engineering. Mentor Graphics, one of the pioneering Big Three developers of electronics […]
MSC Software democratizes vibrational analysis with new MSC Apex Fossa
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research The MSC Apex product family is MSC Software’s visionary initiative to make sophisticated linear structural analysis capabilities easily, intuitively and safely usable…
MathWorks adds design space exploration to Simulink Design Optimization
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Last month’s Release 2016a of MathWorks’ Simulink Design Optimization software includes a new sensitivity analysis tool to support design space exploration. The…
Siemens PLM to name Hemmelgarn CEO, Grindstaff executive chairman
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Siemens PLM Software will appoint Tony Hemmelgarn president and CEO effective October 1. Hemmelgarn is currently the company’s executive vice president for…
ESI Pro-SiVIC 2016 models how sensors perceive scenes and smart products make decisions
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research New tools for development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and autonomous (self-driving) vehicles are highlights of Pro-SiVIC 2016, ESI Group’s latest…
Predictive engineering analytics: Simcenter unifies, advances Siemens PLM’s simulation/test portfolio
By Bruce Jenkins • President • Ora Research One of Siemens PLM’s hallmarks is its track record of outstanding management of its acquisitions over many years. It consistently presents a compelling strategic rationale for the move, makes sensible, comprehensible commitments as to how it will operate and integrate the acquired business and its technologies—then follows…
ANSYS, GE partner to bring simulation to the Industrial IoT
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research A top CAE vendor has partnered with a world industrial giant to help engineering and manufacturing organizations capitalize on the Industrial Internet…
Predictive engineering analytics: Simcenter unifies, advances Siemens PLM’s simulation/test portfolio
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Source: www.siemens.com/press One of Siemens PLM’s hallmarks is its track record of outstanding management of its acquisitions over many years. It consistently…
From PLM to Product Innovation Platforms
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Is the new term “product innovation platform” simply a rebranding exercise to refresh the aging “product lifecycle management” (PLM) label? Or is…
Should you buy design space exploration technology from a PLM vendor?
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research In its recent acquisition of CFD leader CD-adapco, Siemens PLM also acquired CD-adapco’s Red Cedar Technology subsidiary, developer of the HEEDS design…
Design space exploration: Adoption drivers, adoption constraints, potential adoption accelerators
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research Design space exploration today is enjoying ever-increasing levels of recognition, adoption and successful application to help solve some the world’s most difficult…
Cloud-native CAD will disrupt the PLM platform paradigm
By Bruce Jenkins, President, Ora Research An illuminating blog post by Onshape engineering team member Ilya Baran reveals some fundamentals of how the new cloud-native CAD system works:…
Design optimization: Topology and much more
Topology optimization and its seductive biomorphic shapes are what many think of when they hear the word “optimization” in engineering design. But topology optimization is just one kind of structural optimization—and that, in turn, is only one of five broad classes of optimization technology available to engineers today. Equally if not more valuable, depending on…