SIMULIA Abaqus/ CAE and CATIA Analysis as open & powerful process automation platforms

The Simulation Automation topics often deal with chaining a wide range of software tools used by organizations to design and simulate their new products. Automatically exploring the design space, this approach is now effective in reducing the companies' design cycle time. However, the achievement of the automation of each of the bricks of the process that will possibly be chained is the main issue. Included in these automated bricks part of the company’s Know-how, it’s possible to develop Vertical Applications that will help Engineering Departments deliver more reliable products, while keeping a very high level of innovation. These Vertical Applications are extensive in scope: products' geometry preparation, meshing, preprocessing, setting up boundary conditions & simulation, solver execution, post-processing, and report automation, etc. This paper presents three robust and complete Simulia-based Vertical Applications and evaluates their contribution to design time cycles.