The Working Wonders blog

Maximizing the value of your engineering data: How id8 enhances and accelerates product development

Simulation solutions have long enabled companies to develop complex products more efficiently. By reducing reliance on costly physical prototypes, improving product quality, and shortening development cycles, simulation tools offer significant advantages. However, they also generate massive amounts of data, and too often, the knowledge from this data is trapped in silos—limiting its potential impact.

Revolutionizing Sustainability: The Role of Multidisciplinary Optimization in Additive Manufacturing

Integrating additive manufacturing (AM) remake strategies using Optimus, early in conceptual design enhances product longevity and sustainability, aligning with global goals for responsible consumption and production. By optimizing designs for repair and remanufacture, industries can reduce waste, conserve resources, and foster a more resilient circular economy, benefiting both the environment and economic sustainability.

Revolutionizing Engineering Design with AI

Author: Marco Panzeri, R&D Manager, Noesis Solutions

The world of engineering designs and product development has been evolving at a rapid pace. Simulations and 3D models have been a cornerstone of engineering design, allowing for the virtual replication of real-world systems for decades now. Engineers of today, have spent years immersed in the world of simulations, stress analyses, and complex product development processes. The thing is, while digital engineering has made incredible progress over the years, there's always been one persistent challenge: time. Simulations are critical, yes, but they are also expensive in terms of resources and, more crucially, time. This is where AI has come into play.

Transforming product development with the id8 cloud platform

Top 3 challenges of modern engineering and how collaboration enables organizations overcome these challenges and to empower teams, streamline processes, and redefine product development in the digital age.

Putting your 360-degree engineering camera to work

Probably you’re using best-in-class software to support your engineering processes, but once too often you’re facing problems meeting key requirements within deadlines and budget constraints? You may ask yourself what’s actually missing to realize greater engineering achievements. Is it the ability to have all engineering tools work together toward the final development objectives, across multiple engineering disciplines? Or is it something different altogether?

Getting ahead of the game

Whatever game you’re trying to win, one thing is key: you need to make the right decisions at the right time to take the lead and stay ahead of your competitors. It’s pretty much the same for any engineering team working on a new product design. Typically, they’re all confronted with what is usually referred to as ‘a multiobjective optimization problem’. Such optimization challenge requires them to balance many (conflicting) design objectives, of which the ‘maximum performance against minimum cost’ equation is probably the most well known.

Second stage in Spa-Francorchamps

Earlier this month, the CQS Group Racing Team KU Leuven successfully participated in the international 24-hours endurance race in Spa-Francorchamps. With their newly developed tuned Citroen 2CV, the student racing team took the second stage in the Experimental Class. In preparation for this edition, Noesis Solutions assisted the team in further enhancing racecar aerodynamics

Balancing on a tightrope

I didn’t witness Nik Wallenda successfully complete his high-wire walks above the city of Chicago back in November 2014. Wallenda already became a tightrope legend , after having crossed both the Grand Canyon and the Niagara Falls on tightropes earlier on. But achieving two crossings between skyscrapers on either side of the Chicago River without any safety net or harness was a special feat. He even completed one crossing blindfolded 152 meter above the ground in winds that were gusting at up to 40km/h.

Mastering 2CV Racecar Aerodynamics

Optimus will help the members of the CQS Group Racing Team to improve 2CV design by enhancing race car aerodynamics. What makes this team unique is their focus on bringing topics like ecology to the forefront of the official racing competition - and Optimus will allow them to take innovation one step further ahead.

A manufacturer’s perspective on critical PIDO advancements

Meeting up with leading manufacturers at last year’s Optimus World Conference provided great opportunity to learn about their latest process integration and design optimization (PIDO) achievements. They clearly expressed that more Optimus PIDO technology advancements will play a critical role in meeting the development challenges they see ahead of them.

Design optimization inspired by nature

Optimus features a new Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm, implementing a swarm intelligence approach into an industry-proof method. It can consistently be used to solve both single-objective and multi-objective optimization challenges.