Dr. Dennis Nagy, BeyondCAE Wednesday, February 12, 2014 • * “Engineering Simulations, Part 2: Where Are We Going?” will be webcast on Tuesday, February 25th, at the same time. • Slides and recorded versions of both webcasts will be available at www.TheUberCloud.com
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Engineering Simulation: Where we are and how we got here
Dennis Nagy, a veteran of CAE space, and HPC Experiment Mentor talks about his perspective on the state of the Computer Aided Engineering industry.
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Dr. Dennis Nagy, BeyondCAE
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
• * “Engineering Simulations, Part 2: Where Are We Going?”
will be webcast on Tuesday, February 25th, at the same time.
• Slides and recorded versions of both webcasts will be available at
Who Am I? (my 1 minute of shameless self-promotion )
A broad expert in engineering simulation (CAE), over 42 years of experience: from R&D, university teaching, through commercial software development, support, sales and marketing management, to executive management.
• Former Sr. VP of worldwide Sales at MSC.Software • CEO of Engineous (now part of DS/SIMULIA) • VP of Marketing and Business Development at CD-adapco • VP of Marketing and Asia-Pacific at Fluent (now part of ANSYS) • VP of International Business, Blue Ridge Numerics (now part of Autodesk)
Currently Principal at BeyondCAE, a global strategy and business development consulting activity located in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
The use of applied physics, numerical methods, algorithms, and computers to model and study the functional behavior of multiple manufactured instances of proposed physical product/process designs.
MCAE, Functional Virtual Prototyping, Digital Prototyping, and Simulation & Analysis (S&A) are all the same thing for purposes of this presentation.
1950’s-mid-60s: basic R&D work and first very simple software programs (major aerospace, civil frame/truss structures) Boeing, MIT, NASA, ESA,…
Mid-1960’s-70s: basic methods for MCAD (D=Drafting) and early commerical MCAE software; emergence of sufficient compute power MSC, SDRC (now part of Siemens), ANSYS, ABAQUS (now
part of Dassault Systemes), MARC (now part of MSC), MathWorks all founded
1980s: MCAD Solid modeling (D=Design) and more user-friendly MCAE; accessibility of computer power (workstations); emergence of PDM, PIM (recognition of mushrooming data) LMS (now part of Siemens PLM), RASNA (now part of PTC)
1990s: linking of MCAD, MCAE in wider production use; variational modeling, affordability of much greater computer and communications power (PC client/server networks)
Late 1990s: the Internet/Web—MCAE information but little s/w
2000s: discovering and overcoming new challenges (interoperability, standards, collaboration,…), emergence of MCAE as a significant player/component of PLM (25%+)
2010s: SDM, SPM, optimization, democratization, SaaS, The Cloud, multiphysics, multifidelity, multiscale (more in Part 2 of this Series)
Progress Through the 7 Steps Varies by industry (aero, auto, turbo, energy, consumer
products), company size/role (SMB, OEMs vs. suppliers).
Varies by company within same industry segment: Leaders vs. laggards (recent Aberdeen Group studies)
Does not vary significantly by industrialized (“First World”) geography: Western Europe, North America, and Japan/Korea (with slight lag back in the 1970s/80s) are all similarly advanced/mature today in their effective use of MCAE …and the BRICs are catching up fast