The Advantage of Integrated Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM)
As manufacturers strive for efficiency throughout the product lifecycle, they have begun to focus on a sweet spot: the earliest development stages. Optimizing products in early development phases ensures that analysis and validation costs are addressed upfront, where expenses are typically lower. This is precisely why integrated design and simulation, also known as ‘MODSIM’, empower designers and analysts to experience and enhance the design of new products long before physical prototyping begins.
Design and analytical engineers typically work in siloed teams using specialized solutions for simulation analysis. Additionally, designers share models and related files back and forth with analysts to validate a design. However, this disconnected approach hinders real-time collaboration. Nevertheless, companies can overcome this competitive disadvantage by using MODSIM to improve productivity, accelerate innovation and improve product quality.
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Unified Modeling and Simulation – Interview with Sebastian Gautier
As companies embrace integrated modeling and simulation, they are optimizing products and shifting analysis and validation costs to the early conceptual design phase. By adopting this approach, companies can achieve multiple benefits. Some of these benefits include increased sustainability, enhanced product quality, and reduced costs in later phases of a program by eliminating costly redesign cycles.
Why Do Companies Value Integrated Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM)?
MODSIM is not a single software solution or design tool. Instead, it represents an approach that greatly expedites design exploration, optimization, and validation. This is achieved through the combined capabilities of CATIA®, SIMULIA® (including Abaqus), and cloud computing, all integrated within the 3DEXPERIENCE® platform. Moreover, MODSIM can be equally effective when applied to any design process. By integrating modeling and simulation tools on a single platform, Dassault Systèmes enables new ways of working, which outperform the use of unintegrated siloed tools.