Maximizing the ROI of your CAE Investment - PADT, Inc.

50 Pages·2013·2.26 MB·English

by  Eric Miller

Maximizing the ROI
of your CAE
Investment
Making the Most of Your
Investment

2/25/2010
PADT, Inc.
Agenda
• Introduction
• Goals
• People
• Tools
• Process
• Recommendations
• Thoughts

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Introductions
Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies
• PADT is an Engineering Services
Company
– Mechanical Engineering
– 15 years of growth and happy customers
– Any Industry
– World Wide
– Small to Large Companies
• 3 Business Areas
– CAE Sales & Services
– Product Development
– Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing
“We Bring Dimension to Your Ideas”
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ANSYS Sales, Technical Support & Training
• Sales, Support and Training for
Almost All ANSYS, Inc. Products
– No Ansoft, yet…
– No Offshore products
• Sales & Support in Southwest
– AZ, NM, CO, UT, NV, El Paso
– Sales
• Relationship based, highly technical,
win-win
– Support
• By engineers for Engineers
• Real world, beyond bugs/install issues
• Training
– Worldwide, your place or ours
– Custom classes

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Simulation Services
• World wide reputation for quality and speed
• Any industry
• “Over the Wall” or highly collaborative, customer choice
• Experts in complete process
• Most Physics
– Stress
– Heat Transfer
– CFD
– EMAG & Others
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Learn More about PADT
• Visit www.PADTINC.com
• Stop on by
• Call 480 813-4884
• E-mail: [email protected]
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Your Presenter: Eric Miller
• Co-Owner of PADT
– Co-Manage the CAE & BusOps/Admin
departments
• ANSYS user since 1986
• Heavily involved in ANSYS software
planning
• Background in software development,
CAD, simulation, and process
improvement
• BS in Mechanical Engineering, UC
Berkeley
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First: Some Definitions
• CAE: Computer Aided Engineering
– Using computer software to conduct engineering
calculation
– Applies to most engineering disciplines: EE, ME,
MfgE, MatSci, etc…
– Simple (spreadsheet) to complex (molecular modeling)
• CAE Tools
– Software written to do engineering calculations
– Commercial, self written, or open source
– May be a general purpose tool used for engineering
calculations
• Cost
– Total cost to a company in both short and long term
– Money spent, time spent, time to market, reputation,
overhead costs, etc…
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Why CAE
• Fast and accurate calculations
• Know more about your design, early in the
development process
• Two good reasons to use CAE
– Reduce costs of physical prototyping
– Increase the number of design iterations
through use of virtual prototypes
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