Performance-Driven Generative Design
Optimize Your Design with MODSIM (Modeling & Simulation)
Innovate and Validate Faster with MODSIM
In many industries, due to competitive pressure and customer demand, companies need to innovate and drastically reduce their time to market while maintaining cost and quality levels. Simultaneously, the need for Circularity and Sustainability for products and services has reached a turning point. Finally, with products becoming more complex, the faster you can validate your product and its manufacturability through simulation, the more time you’ll have for technical innovation.
What is MODSIM?
MODSIM is a product development approach that unifies MODeling and SIMulation on a common data model within a single user experience on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
MODSIM enables a simulation-empowered shift-left strategy that pulls verification and validation upfront in the concept phase of the design. The design engineer can investigate multiple design options, visualize physical simulation variants and select those closest to the requirements specification.
What Benefits Can You Expect?
Reshape your product development. MODSIM brings a revolution to the productivity of engineers and product teams. Using simulation templates, engineers can consider sustainability, performance, manufacturability and all KPIs throughout the product lifecycle, even if they are not experts, decreasing the number of iterations with the simulation department.
Achieve sustainability targets: Across all industries, leading organizations are already democratizing and automating simulation processes. They demonstrate how it enables them to validate requirements from the start of design, while putting sustainability at the center of what they do.
Innovate with Confidence Through MODSIM
MODSIM enables mechanical engineers to accelerate functional performance and feasibility through a comprehensive set of engineering solutions. By integrating solutions such as Concept Engineering, Lightweight Engineering, and Lattice Design, MODSIM enables engineers to explore innovative designs.
Engineers can create virtual representations of products, simulate their behavior, and analyze their performance early in the development process. This approach reduces iterations and improves collaboration, leading to higher quality products. Multidisciplinary simulations within MODSIM ensure that designs meet all performance criteria.
What we need for designers is well-integrated tools. If they are in the same tools CATIA and SIMULIA – same function, same environment- they will use it. If we ensure this traceability, we give a proof that we assess the performance for the customer and that we can validate the vehicle.
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FAQ about Performance-Driven Generative Design with MODSIM
| Feature | MODSCAN | MODSIM |
| Purpose | Diagnostic tool for industrial automation systems | Integrated modeling and simulation approach for product development |
| Functionality | Scans and monitors Modbus communication protocols | Enables design optimization, validation, and simulation-driven decision-making |
| Industry use | Industrial control systems, factory automation | Automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, life sciences, high-tech |
| Key benefits | Identifies communication errors in industrial networks | Reduces time-to-market, improves product performance, and enhances sustainability |
MODSIM supports a wide range of multidisciplinary simulations, allowing engineers to validate product performance under different conditions. The key simulation types include:
- Structural Analysis: Evaluates mechanical strength, stress, deformation, and fatigue of materials.
- Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Simulates airflow, fluid interactions, cooling, and aerodynamics.
- Thermal Analysis: Assesses heat distribution, thermal conductivity, and cooling strategies.
- Electromagnetic Simulation: Analyzes electromagnetic interference (EMI) and compatibility.
- Multibody Dynamics: Simulates motion, forces, and interactions between moving components.
- Generative Design Optimization: Uses AI-driven algorithms to generate lightweight and high-performance designs.
- Transportation & Mobility: Enhancing aerodynamics, crashworthiness, and electric vehicle (EV) battery performance.
- Aerospace & Defense: Optimizing aircraft structures, reducing weight, and improving fuel efficiency.
- Industrial Equipment: Designing robust machinery, improving manufacturability, and ensuring durability.
- Life Sciences & Healthcare: Simulating medical devices, prosthetics, and patient-specific implants.
- High-Tech: Evaluating thermal performance, optimizing circuit board layouts, and ensuring electromagnetic compatibility.
- Consumer-packaged-goods-retail: Creating sustainable packaging, improving product durability, and enhancing supply chain efficiency.
MODSIM integrates simulation-driven development, allowing engineers to validate designs early, make better decisions and reduce late-stage modifications. By enabling virtual testing of multiple design options, it minimizes physical prototyping, reducing costs and iterations. Automated workflows streamline repetitive tasks, while collaboration tools ensure data consistency across teams. This approach eliminates delays, improves efficiency, and speeds up product innovation cycles, leading to faster market entry.
MODSIM helps companies achieve sustainability goals by optimizing material usage while aligning with performance objectives, reducing waste, enhancing energy efficiency, and supporting recyclability. AI-driven generative design creates lightweight structures that minimize raw material consumption, while thermal and fluid simulations improve energy performance. Additionally, early manufacturability analysis ensures production efficiency, reducing waste and enabling products to align with circular economy principles.
Yes, MODSIM is designed for accessibility, allowing non-experts to leverage simulation insights through predefined templates, automated optimization tools, and an intuitive user interface. Engineers without deep simulation expertise can easily set up and analyze results, reducing dependency on specialists. This democratization of simulation empowers cross-functional teams to validate designs efficiently and make informed decisions.
MODSIM enhances collaboration by providing a centralized data environment within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform where design and simulation teams can work seamlessly. This platform eliminates the need for scattered file storage, as all data is securely stored in a shared database. Key benefits include:
- Unified data model: Eliminates the need for separate tools, reducing errors and miscommunication.
- Real-time collaboration: Teams can access and update simulation results within the same platform, ensuring version control and data consistency.
- Traceability and compliance: Engineers can track design changes, link them to simulation results, and generate audit-ready documentation.
- Cross-functional integration: Teams from design, simulation, manufacturing, and sustainability can work together to optimize product performance.
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