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Multidisciplinary design optimization software mdo Multidisciplinary design optimization software

Discover better designs, faster

“Using HEEDS, we are HEEDS® MDO automates and accelerates the able to discover much engineering design exploration process. Whether you better designs than we could when we used a need to improve the design of a simple component or manual FEA approach. Also, we are able to rule engineer complex multidisciplinary systems, HEEDS out concepts that are not MDO is fl exible enough to fi nd the values of design feasible, because we are confi dent that HEEDS has parameters that best satisfy your design criteria. thoroughly explored the design space for each concept.”

HEEDS MDO can be easily integrated into your current workfl ow Arun Nair, Project Engineer, with the design and analysis tools you prefer to use. Th en, it Corporate CAE Group, BD automatically explores the design space to quickly identify solutions that meet your goals, such as reducing product cost and/or mass while improving performance.

BASELINE DESIGN HEEDS® MDO IMPROVED SOLUTION

The optimization reduced the mass of the designed parts by 33.5kg. This resulted in a reduction of 22% over the baseline design (from 152 to 118.5kg). The relative cost measure was also reduced by 19%. Benefi ts and Features

Benefi ts of Using HEEDS PARALLEL HEEDS MDO ■ Automated Design of Parallel execution of design studies Experiments (DOE) When faster turnaround ■ Reduces development costs and When it’s important to predict time is important, HEEDS improves product performance design sensitivities, or gain a clearer PARALLEL speeds up your design With revolutionary optimization understanding of your design space, study by submitting multiple design methods available only in HEEDS, you a HEEDS MDO DOE study is often evaluations simultaneously to diff erent can uncover new design concepts that the ideal approach. It allows you to processors. Even separate analyses improve products and signifi cantly extract a great deal of useful information within a single design evaluation can reduce development, manufacturing, quickly, with the least computational or be distributed to diff erent machines to warranty and distribution costs. experimental eff ort possible. accommodate CAD/CAE tool license availability. ■ Unlocks the power of your CAE tools ■ Sensitivity studies HEEDS MDO plays well with all Use HEEDS MDO to identify the HEEDS PARALLEL achieves a popular CAE applications to automate variables that aff ect your design the linear or better speed-up with added and expedite design optimization. It most. You can then ignore variables that resources and optimizes your existing can integrate multiple software tools are not important or set them to values software and hardware resources. to handle pre- and post-processing, that are most convenient or least costly. It interfaces directly with popular simulation, and multidisciplinary Th is allows you to control quality more queuing applications like PBS, LSF, optimization. eff ectively while lowering cost. MS Server, and others. If you don’t have a queuing system in place, you ■ Lets you focus on innovative design ■ Robustness and reliability assessments can use our job management system, Th ere’s no need to experiment with To better understand and control HEEDS Q. diff erent optimization algorithms and the eff ects of variations in geometry, confusing tuning parameters for each materials and loads, use HEEDS Together, HEEDS MDO and new problem. Th e HEEDS SHERPA MDO to calculate the robustness and PARALLEL provide the most algorithm adapts itself to your problem reliability of your design using stochastic comprehensive control of your study, automatically, fi nding better solutions parametric studies. allowing you to explore faster, the fi rst time. the design space in signifi cantly less time. ■ Is easy to learn and use Even engineers with very little Optional Modules optimization experience can use HEEDS POST HEEDS MDO to discover optimal Interfaces/Portals Data processing, visualization and designs, often in a fraction of the time MDO plays well with all popular discovery software it would take to perform a handful of CAE applications. It can work with Reviewing study data is about so much manual iterations. multiple software tools to handle pre- more than just fi nding the best design. and post-processing, simulation, and ■ Leverages your existing knowledge multidisciplinary optimization. Within HEEDS POST, you can create and intuition a variety of plots and tables, customize Only HEEDS allows engineers to HEEDS MDO features direct input and them to meet your needs, and view suggest new design ideas both before output interfaces for the following tools: them in logical groups to best illustrate and during an optimization study to • Abaqus • MATLAB relationships among variables and design combine math-based and intuition- goals. With this information, you can based search intelligence, and to • Abaqus CAE • Moldfl ow refi ne future studies to fi nd even better accelerate knowledge creation. • Adams/Car • Nastran designs. When it’s time to share your • Adams/Chassis • NX insights, you can export plots and data • Adams/View • Python from HEEDS POST for presentations and • ANSA • Creo reports. Product Features • ANSYS • Ricardo SDF Workbench • Simpack VCollab ■ Multidisciplinary, multi-objective • Excel • SolidWorks and HEEDS POST uses the technology from parametric design optimization VCTI to provide enhanced visualization • GT-Suite SolidWorks Whether your problem involves capabilities. You can visualize the results structures, fl uids, heat transfer, electro- • JMAG Simulation from your CAE analyses directly within magnetics, acoustics, NVH and • LS-DYNA • STAR-CCM+ HEEDS POST. You can select any dynamics, cost, or any combination of these, HEEDS MDO can help you Additionally, HEEDS MDO off ers a design(s) and study the corresponding understand complex design trade-off s powerful generic interface that allows it design shape/results in the embedded and fi nd optimized solutions. to link to any commercial or proprietary viewer. Adding visualization to the software tool that creates input or output HEEDS design exploration process greatly fi les in ASCII format. If you aren’t sure accelerates experiential learning and whether your tool will work with HEEDS deepens the level of review possible for any MDO, contact us to fi nd out. given design. Typical Applications by Industry mdo ® for HEEDS MDO Multidisciplinary design ptimization software

Aerospace ■ Human body model calibration How HEEDS® MDO Works ■ Composite wings ■ Consumer products INPUT ■ AutomaticAAutomatic iteiterationsrations Turbine blades ■ Press fi ts Baseline model with controlled bbyy HEEDS initial guesses for design ■ ■ variables such as Landing gear Racing head and neck support without huhumanman geometry, layout, ininterventiontervention materials, etc. ■ Wing profi le design (HANS) ■ Sensors ANALYSES ■ Fuselage structures Durable Goods Structures, Fluids, Thermal, Acoustics, ■ Composite joint layup ■ Plastic and metallic containers Electromagnetics, MODIFY DESIGN Multiphysics, Cost, ■ ■ HEEDS decides how Manufacturability, etc. Rocket propulsion Food manufacturing to change input parameters using equipment intelligent mathematical search strategies OUTPUTT Automotive ■ Predicted values of Sports equipment HEEDS modifi es analysis responses such as ■ ■ input fi les accordingly stress, defl ection, Body and chassis Shoe design in preparation for the fl ux, temperature, fl ow, next analyses pressure, etc. ■ Suspension systems ■ Transport equipment ■ Crashworthiness ■ Packaging ■ Termination Hybrid electric powertrains No criterion met? ■ Bushings Materials ■ System and component crash ■ Composite layup design Ye s ■ OPTIMIZED and NVH Material selection, model DESIGN ■ Vehicle dynamics calibration, identifi cation and ■ Seat systems property optimization ■ Exhaust systems ■ Redesign for material ■ Electromagnetic sensors conversion ■ Pistons, rings and gears For More Information For more information about HEEDS ■ Heating and cooling systems Manufacturing and Processing MDO, visit www.redcedartech.com, ■ ■ Bumper systems Injection molding call our headquarters at (517) 664- ■ Stamping 1137 or contact your local reseller. Biomedical ■ Forging ■ Orthopedic implants ■ Hydroforming ■ Vascular stents ■ Weld design Platforms HEEDS MDO is supported on ■ Surgical devices ■ Chemical processing 32-bit and 64-bit Windows and ■ Biomaterials modeling ■ Die design Linux systems.

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