Friday 4 April 2014

Consultancy solves analysis scenarios on buildings and dental instruments

Numerical Simulation Tech Co., Ltd. (NST) examines how structures perform under expected loads with the help of Femap™ software, a product lifecycle management (PLM) offering from Siemens PLM Software. In more than 20 years of serving customers as a group of specialist computer-aided engineering (CAE) engineers, NST has provided analysis services to a wide range of businesses and research institutes.

The early 1990s marked the beginning of an era in which most employees in professional positions, such as engineering, had their own personal computer (PC). This meant analysis work that previously required large and expensive computers and technical computing workstations could be conducted using desktop PCs. Originally developed on the Windows® operating system, Femap attracted the attention of NST because the software is a user-friendly pre- and post-processor for finite element analysis (FEA). NST soon became not only a Femap user, but also a reseller, and began providing analysis services and promoting the myriad uses of CAE.

Tailoring Femap

Femap was created by analysis engineers, who emphasized ease of use during development. Yet, when NST started providing its services 20 years ago, there was nothing on the market that appeared to fully satisfy the particular needs of Japanese engineers. In addition to providing customers with detailed analysis services, NST also began, and has continued, to relay software improvement requests to Femap developers. These efforts have paid off. With numerous improvements and the input of consultants like NST, today Femap is widely accepted by Japanese analysis engineers.

“It doesn’t matter how advanced or precise analysis tools are; if the most appropriate functions cannot be used in the most appropriate way, correct analysis will be impossible to achieve,” says Yasuo Kurooka, NST’s president. “Even if analysis is possible, it is often the case that a lot of time is wasted.” In an effort to respond to this need, NST has published case studies that illustrate how solutions analysis provides high value across a variety of applications. Potential users can view more than 70 examples spanning a wide range of analysis types and industries. Additional case studies will soon be made available.

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