What is the problem/issue being addressed?
Companies that face new developments in major industries like Automotive, Aerospace, Rail, Maritime, Heavy Industry, etc., use intensive Computer Simulation by means of Finite Elements Method (FEM) to develop new products. The final stage of this simulation process is called “Post Processing” (extraction of the simulation results from Solvers and their analyses). Surprisingly, the data results extraction is still a manual and time consuming process, also subject to the engineer’s skills and expertise.
Developments in industries using Simulation involve hundreds of simulation engineers, and it takes a long time and high costs to take the products to the market. For example, only developing a new car takes around 2 years and 1bn€, and a commercial transport aircraft takes about 5 years and 12bn€.
IDAERO, has detected the opportunity to reduce significantly the duration of the whole Simulation Process between 15% and 27%, by improving the Post Processing stage with the naX2ceLL software.
Benefits for clients will be outstanding. For instance, bringing a new aircraft 6-month sooner to the Market can result in Millions of euros of new income and a stronger competitive position.
Why is it important for society?
naX2ceLL will help to bring products to market sooner, cheaper and safer, since it will allow saving costs and time during the Computer Simulation process as well as reducing human errors.
- Direct savings due to reduction in the customer response time. We estimate a time-saving of 50% in the Post Processing Work and 15 - 27% in the whole Simulation Process. This implies acceleration of the time to market of a product and cost savings (from hundreds to thousands) of engineering hours for the naX2ceLL end users. Incredible speed of execution, so companies that use it will become more competitive, and will put products into the market earlier.
- Indirect savings in expensive commercial licenses needed for post-processing. It is expected fewer use of them. Reduction in the time and costs of usage of Commercial grade expensive Post Processing software,., since allows direct readings of the different parameters employed for the calculation of the structure.
- Reduction in human errors. The post-processing work is carried out in a more automatedway.
- Savings in Power consumption, due to the implementation of less CPU and time consuming process.
- EU will reinforce its position in the development of Simulation SW, and will benefit of income due to this technological development.
What are the overall objectives?
The main overall of the project are:
- To develop naX2ceLL, a powerful postprocessing software platform that helps companies to bring products to Market Sooner, Cheaper and Safer.
- To develop completely all related activities like dissemination, certification, IPR, etc. that can guarantee the commercial success of naX2ceLL.
- To increase IDAERO’s yearly turnover by 6.4M€/year in 5 years, and create 14 new direct FTEs.
- To improve EU position in developing Simulation Software, and Income coming from technological developments.
