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Dassault Sees Simulation Lifecycle Management as the Silver
Bullet for Complexity
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Randall S. Newton, April 28, 2008
When Dassault Systèmes (DS) recently announced SIMULIA SLM, a
new product suite, I immediately groaned. That’s just what the
engineering world needs, I thought sarcastically, another TLA
(three-letter acronym). Simulation Lifecycle Management; what
will Dassault think of next? But it wasn’t two minutes into an
interview with Dassault’s Paul Lalor when I realized that the
ideas behind SLM make it the best TLA to come down the pike in
quite a while. As envisioned by Dassault, it is a technology
that will have a positive impact on the way organizations
perform and manage their simulation processes.
The use of simulation has become vital to product development
and innovation. SIMULIA SLM offers new abilities to accelerate
product development by organizing the mass of simulation data
now spread across departments. Dassault says SIMULIA SLM will be
a repository for simulation data that allows a company to
capture, re-use, and re-deploy simulation, to create best
practices surrounding simulation, and to foster innovation
through cross-functional engineering.
The goal is to create a single collaboration environment for
all simulation domains. Today, simulations are often performed
by experts in the back room. “The number of them is too few and
their contributions are often too little,” notes Lalor.
SIMULIA SLM is based on Dassault’s new V6 technology and
its more visual approach to data management. (Click for larger view)
SIMULIA SLM is the first significant expansion of the
Dassault simulation product portfolio since the Abaqus
acquisition. It leverages simulation by borrowing from ENOVIA
PLM technology created for Dassault’s V6 technology generation.
Lalor says for Dassault, creating the first version of SLM was a
rapid development cycle, once the pieces were in place.
Dassault says SIMULIA SLM will deliver the ability to manage
all data associated with simulations, integrate and control the
execution of simulation applications, carry out operations such
as query and version control, administer access privileges, and
perform and review simulations in a distributed, collaborative
environment.
Dassault says SLM will be compatible with simulation authoring
applications developed by SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes, third
parties, and customers via a Connectors Framework. Connectors
will ship initially for Abaqus Unified FEA, CATIA, and a variety
of third-party applications such as Nastran, HyperMesh, AcuSolve,
and STAR-CD. Dassault says customers will be able to easily
configure Connectors to their specific applications.
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