Updates to the Siemens Simcenter Testlab will help advanced manufacturers on their journey to zero prototypes, and support faster product development.
The updates provide an increase of up to a 50% overall efficiency in complex impact testing campaigns, Siemens says. This can help engineers reduce time by reusing existing CAD data to define instrumentation and points for impact. The additional support for using multiple hammers in testing enables engineers to extend the frequency range, something that is necessary for evaluating the characteristics of EVs.
Physical testing still plays a vital role in testing of the component that make up the full system. Tests of these components can be used to correlate and update the simulation models to ensure they accurately predict the real world. This helps development teams test different iterations faster, and has been enabled by the Simcenter Testlab updates.
The testing software automatically combines the data from multiple hammers on the fly so the results can be seen during testing. By doing so, the Siemens Testlab reduces overall testing time and enables teams to cover more impact points in less time.
The new update also introduces three key new capabilities to expand the testing capabilities of the software/hardware offering. The new Virtual Prototype Assembly tools bring together physical test and simulation data to create virtual prototypes with a focus on enabling performance evaluation of different configurations and variants before building physical prototypes.
The new NVH (noise, vibration and harshness) simulator enables users to listen to a product prototype before it is built, and the Mission Synthesis tools can streamline the durability testing process to predict potential failure points accurately.
“Advances made with Simcenter Testlab demonstrate how the use of virtual pre-test planning with the reuse of digital twin data, when combined with centralized data management collaboration capabilities and flexible, rugged data acquisition hardware designed for use in the field, are changing the testing industry,” said Wilfried Claes, product manager director, simulation and test, Siemens Digital Industries Software.
The Simcenter Testlab also gains capabilities across data management and automation to help customers bring greater organization and centralization to key test data and to provide efficiency gains.