February 2008 - Added Value for Product Management: SimPDM - Integration of Simulation and Computation Data
February 2008 - Darmstadt – Whether crash simulations or the virtual determination of operating loads – the effective integration of the data gained in such tests in product data management (PDM) allows us to save time and costs when developing new technical systems. The ProSTEP iViP Recommendation PSI 4 „Simulation Data Management – Integration of Simulation and Computation in a PDM Environment (SimPDM)“ provides for the first time a proven-and-tested data model, that ensures optimal integration of simulation and computation data in a PDM environment.
The Recommendation – which was jointly developed by the ProSTEP iViP SimPDM Project Group and the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) – was tested for practicability on the basis of the following three use cases: a crash simulation of an entire vehicle as a FEM simulation, the determination of operating loads on a virtual test track as a MBS simulation as well as the design protection of a charge-air cooler as a CFD simulation (CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics). According to the Project coordinator Dr. Marcus Krastel (:em engineering methods AG) the results are very clear: “The reference data model developed by the SimPDM Project Group is able to map the information from all three use cases and transfer them into a PDM-system. Thus the implementation of this reference data model allows us to achieve a significant increase in efficiency of simulation and computation processes and the entire development.“
Members of the SimPDM Project Group include well-known automotive manufacturers and suppliers, representatives of system vendors, and research institutes. The ProSTEP iViP Recommendation PSI 4 (SimPDM) is available for download free of charge on the homepage of the ProSTEP iViP Association.
