Elysium draws large engineering firms to global summit on CAD software
Annalise Suzuki (right), Director of Technology and Engagement for Elysium, speaking with presenter Ram Pentakota of Adient, at Elysium’s first global summit on Model-Based Definition and validation.
Elysium Inc., a provider of leading 3D translation and geometry optimisation technology, attracted several large engineering companies to its first global user and partner summit.
The likes of Boeing, Google, and Renault Sport Formula One are all organisations which are engaged with Model-Based Definition (MBD), a feature of CAD software. With its own MBD technology, the CADValidator, Elysium hosted its first summit in California last month to advise on how best to use MBD. Since there remain concerns over software interoperability as companies approach all-digital product design and development environment, Elysium is seeking to ameliorate these concerns.
Other attendees at the conference included Gulfstream; Rockwell Collins; Zodiac Aerospace; Adient; Karma Automotive; Kuka Systems; Advanced Integration Technology; BC Engineering & Design; Parker Hannifin and Parker Aerospace.
“Each company that attended our summit has diverse engineering systems and partners,” said Annalise Suzuki, Director of Technology & Engagement for Elysium. “They absolutely must work from a unified digital model that conforms to the highest standards of accuracy for designing, machining and passing product information to stakeholders across their organisations.
Elysium draws large engineering firms to global summit on CAD software
Elysium’s 3D PDF validation report detecting an engineering change in which a hole diameter has been modified from 40 mm to 52 mm. Associative geometry is highlighted for easy interpretation.
“With the accelerating rise of automated work cells, we’re seeing a commensurate supporting investment by industry leaders who are concerned about ensuring that data quality doesn’t hold back the processing speeds offered by new technologies grounded in MBD. Increased production throughput and quality are key ingredients for profitability and customer satisfaction, whether in aerospace industries or consumer goods manufacturing. Our suite of solutions for all-digital environment addresses long-standing challenges in data interoperability for both legacy and future products, systems and platforms.”
MBD enables the automation of 3D data capture and comparison capabilities. Elysium’s own highly robust CADValidator module supports downstream processes to leverage fully vetted MBD data. While automating form-fit-function changes, it also captures presentation and representation changes that are not otherwise encapsulated in drawing-centric processes. The CADValidator module ensures models that have been translated from other systems, or from previous releases of the same system, are identical. Additionally, it also validates CAD data for short and long-term storage and retrieval. This means derivative models do not compromise quality. These derivatives with long production lives need to remain faithful to their originals. Noting how critical this is, particularly when the originating CAD system has gone through many releases or is no longer available, Elysium has made sure its CADValidator module is capable enough to maintain the derivative models.
Elysium draws large engineering firms to global summit on CAD software
Ian Goddard of Renault Sport Formula One Team discusses his group’s collaboration with Elysium for ensuring data quality throughout the product development cycles of the team’s race car.
Renault Sport Formula One is one of the many engineering companies to take advantage of the CADValidator software module. Ian Goddard, Head of Technical Partnerships at Renault Sport F1, and the engineer in charge of computer-aided engineering (CAE), was one of the presenters at the California summit.
“Elysium software is critical to product development within our Formula One race car program,” said Goddard. “We collaborate with other partners like Infiniti, working with the Infiniti European Technical Centre to explore our common reliance on Elysium products. The development cycles of our F1 car centre on tight race schedules and require very fast exchange of data without manually stopping to check geometry or question manufacturing process instructions.
“Our timescales are so critical that a single data issue could mean an important upgrade would miss its race debut but, with the support of Elysium, this has never occurred. Whoever originates the data in our supply chain, it has to read and perform the same for every expert in our network. Our data is not allowed to have a pit stop for repair and tuning.”
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