User Interactive 3D Parts Catalogue- Customizable Webbased Electronic Parts Catalogue.

Adroitec specialises in delivering Web based, interactive Parts Catalog services,  where  the Components  can  be viewed at Individual levels, assembled , can be searched using various attributes such as name,  number etc. This  tool can come handy to serve service engineers , dealers and  users and can be deployed on a Tablet , Handphone , for easy accessibly .  For more details, please click More Details

Alphacraft reduces tool design time by 35% using PTC Creo

How Alphacraft is using powerful PTC Creo Tool Design Solutions for design, development, manufacture and supply of Aluminium CastingsInitiatives and Results

Reduce new Tool Design Time

Initiative: To reduce tooling time in order to impove over all new product development time
Result: New tooling split time has been reduced by 30-35% using PTC Creo Tool Design Capabilities such as Shut
off,Extend curve and Fill Loops etc.

 

Data Modification and design Flexibility

Initiative: Need Flexibility in data editing and model simplyfication
Result: PTC Creo Flexibile modeling tools reduced our majar tasks such as model simplification and editing of imported data which improves our manufacturing time

 

Design Validation

Initiative:  To improve design validatation and enhance their product quality
Result: With intuitive and easy-to-use tools and options such as dynamic cut section,3D Thickness Analysis &  measurement tools improves design validation easier and faster

 

Improve design quality and reduce errors

Initiative: To reduce time spent on importing models and avoid errors during splitting
Result: Reduced errors and data loss significantly in PTC Creo during importing

 

 Customer Quote

Using PTC Creo Tooling Solutions, the time to design and Manufacturing reduced by 35%. PTC Creo tooling solutions helps us to meet our customer requirements with improved quality

– Mr M Ramesh,
Managing Director–Mr.Hrishikesh Athale Project Manager

Technology Workshop on solutions for APQP - RFQ Management - By Adroitec.

Team Adroitec conducted a technology workshop ,exhibiting the Solutions for APQP-RFQ Management, as a part of their PLM Series Program . The workshop was conducted at Chennai, and participated by Who's of Who  of Automotive  and  Auto Ancilary Organisation from Tamil Nadu.

Prominent among them were M/s Sundaram Clayton , M/s TVS Motors , M/s Palfinger , M/s Wheels India ,  M/s Yazaki Wiring, M/s Motherson , M/s Automotive, M/s Rane.

Moldex3D R15.0 Release

Simulation can help you make quick and informed decisions in the early design phase. But problem is, simulation pre-processing is all too often time consuming and laborious. Moldex3D R15.0 offers enhanced performance, accuracy and better usability to streamline simulation workflow and provide faster turnaround times with added efficiency.

Here’re the top most exciting features in Moldex3D R15.0 that will enhance your next simulation projects and results, saving you significant time and effort. Get your next simulation project done faster, more efficiently with Moldex3D R15.0.

Moldex3D R15.0

Multibody-Dynamics

Assuming that parts of a dynamic assembly act as purely rigid bodies is like assuming that the earth is flat: The truth won’t be known until the assumptions are challenged. There is always an element of risk involved with challenging the status quo, but, luckily, using ANSYS Flexible 

Dynamics technology is less risky than falling off the edge of the earth. When challenged with prototyping a new mechanical assembly, most engineering departments turn to a rigid dynamics software program, and for good reason. The advantages of simulating an assembly as a collection of rigid parts connected by joints are undeniable: It is much faster, more design ideas can be investigated in the same amount of time, and a product development team can be more productive. But this time savings comes at the expense of insight, and, sometimes, what isn’t known about a new design can come back to haunt a well-meaning team.

Unknowns can include:

• Will our assembly survive the first cycle, or will one of the parts buckle, break or deform so severely that the system locks up?

• Will the assembly vibrate so much that nobody will  buy it?

• Will our warranty department have to deal with the big, expensive problem of material fatigue?

• Is this a huge career-limiting mistake that our design team can’t collectively afford to make?

To gain the insight required to answer the above questions (and many others), part and joint flexibility needs to be included in the simulation.

Rigid dynamics simulation can demonstrate how quickly an assembly’s parts are moving, how fast the parts are accelerating or decelerating, and what the forces are at the joints between the parts at any time during the dynamic transient.  The total solution time for many rigid dynamics  simulations is often measured in seconds, because the number of degrees of freedom is low and all parts are assumed to be infinitely stiff. This fast solve time makes rigid dynamics extremely attractive to those with looming deadlines.

On the other hand, flexible dynamics provides these same part velocities and acceleration data, plus complete deformation, stress and strain data. While this is the information needed to really understand the design, total solution time is longer. Because of this, relying on flexible dynamics in the early stages of design development has never been commercially viable.

Smart engineers have been trying to combine the benefits of the fast solve times of rigid dynamics with the complete performance information that comes only from running a flexible FEA simulation. Several methods have been developed over the past 20 years with varying degrees of success.

Rigid Dynamics Loads to Static Simulation Method

The most basic and most widely used method of combining the benefits of rigid dynamics with those gained by using flexible system modeling is to transfer loads from a rigid dynamics run and use those loads on a structurally static system. This marriage of dissimilar technologies has some pros and cons.

Pro

• Dynamic loading on parts is captured accurately, so there is no need to estimate how far to scale up a static load to approximate a dynamic load.This widely practiced approach is sometimes  conservative, and sometimes it is not.

• Static structural simulations are some of the most efficient FEA-based solutions that accurately model flexibility.

Con

• The process forces the engineer to choose the transient time points at which to transfer to the
structural static simulation.

• Using this method, it is extremely easy to overlook the worst-case loading combinations for all but the simplest assemblies, so the wise engineer using this method applies a very large margin of safety when relying on results.

Craig–Bampton Method

A more sophisticated technique of combining rigid and flexible benefits is the Craig–Bampton method. Using this technique, the flexibility of a system is captured via a model–dynamic solution. The mode shapes and frequencies, or eigenvalues and eigen vectors, are then fed to the rigid dynamics model so that part flexibility is accounted for during a transient. While less of a forced marriage than the previous technique, the Craig–Bampton method is also blessed with pronounced strengths and weaknesses.

Pro

• A modal analysis is one of the most efficient of all dynamic simulations.

• The rigid dynamics reduced-order model gains flexibility at the lowest computational cost, and this has made the method popular with those requiring additional simulation fidelity.

Con

• The method is inherently limited to linear responses due to its reliance on modal analysis results. 

This means it is not capable of accurately modeling:

– Anything other than linear materials: no material plasticity, hyperelasticity or viscoelasticity is possible
– Real-world nonlinear contact, with or without friction and or changing contact status
– Large deflection

• The method is complicated and consumes much engineering time. Little has been done to automate, or at least streamline, the linking of the modal results with the rigid reduced-order model, likely because of the inherent limitations of the Craig–Bampton method itself.

• Design iterations are painful. Because there is significant manual interaction and data reading, writing and translating, it is nearly impossible to keep up with changes to a 3-D CAD model. Load transfer from rigid dynamics simulation model (top) to static structural model (bottom)

• Financial cost is typically very high because two expensive programs must be used, often from different software companies, and these programs are typically run by two different engineers who have been trained on one system but not both.

Rigid and Flexible Dynamics Method

The most modern method of combining the benefits of rigid and flexible dynamics is to create a general-purpose software system that can be used to model full-rigid dynamics with reduced-order models or a full-flexible dynamics assembly, or any combination thereof. For this method, an engineer uses reduced-order models in pure rigid dynamics and is able to keep pace with rapidly evolving design proposals because of the fast solve times afforded by the explicit solver. To gain further insight, the rigid model is modified with the addition of flexible component(s), and a flexible or rigid and flexible system is analyzed. While some software suppliers have pieces of the rigid and flexible dynamics method, only ANSYS offers this type of system — and it has been in commercial use for nearly two years. To consummate the relationship between rigid and flexible dynamics, the ANSYS Rigid Dynamics  product is used as an add-on to ANSYS Structural, ANSYS Mechanical or ANSYS Multiphysics software.

Pro

• A single geometry model is used for both rigid and flexible dynamics. This model is typically an easy-tovisualize
3-D model from ANSYS DesignModeler software or a CAD system.

• The same user interface is employed for both rigid and flexible dynamics, so users of one have very little to learn to be able to run the other.

• Models can be converted from rigid to flexible in minutes in as few as four mouse clicks.

• Design iterations are easy. Change the CAD model, click update, and resolve the rigid, rigid and flexible, or full-flexible model.

• The limitations of the Craig–Bampton method do not apply: that is, you are able to model nonlinear contact as well as material non linearities at the same time, if desired.

Con

• While creating a rigid and flexible model with contact and material non linearities is easy to do, sometimes these non linearities cause conflicting convergence targets for the solver. Overcoming these conflicts and getting a converged solution can require some expertise in nonlinear simulations.

• Solver requirements are higher than either of the previous two methods, which has always been the nature of a full-nonlinear transient dynamic simulation.

However, new time integration schemes and parallel processing or high-performance computing can be very effective at reducing CPU demands. Because some brave soul challenged the assumption that the earth was flat, falling off the edge of the world is less of a concern than it was centuries ago. As the state of the art in engineering simulation software continues to improve, and more engineers begin to use rigid and flexible dynamics during product development, failed product designs will become less of a concern as well.

White paper on ThingWorx Studio

ThingWorx Studio

ThingWorx Studio, along with ThingWorx View, delivers a graphically rich user experience where information is superimposed over a physical product through one, universal browser application.
Through the use of these AR development and delivery tools, what was once a world of simple applications shifts
towards full product experiences that enable end users in any industry, to better create, service, and operate their
products.

Why ThingWorx Studio?

Simple, Powerful and Scalable – AR for Everyone

• Rapid ‘codeless’ authoring of AR experiences
• Global service, managing access to all enterprise AR experiences
• ThngWorx View displays 2D, 3D AR and specific device level information for all “things” through one universal application
• ThingMarks uniquely identify each individual discoverable object with ThingWorx View

Connecting AR with the Enterprise

• Leverage engineering data from tools like Creo or other 3rd party 3D CAD tools inside your AR experience
• Add additional animations and sequences created in Creo Illustrate

 

Open Platform for Democratized AR Development

• Broad support for devices, platforms, and 3D geometry
• Extensive enterprise system integrations such as ERP, SCM and CRM systems
• Quickly connect to IoT objects within ThingWorx or 3rd party device clouds

 

ThingWorx Studio Components

ThingWorx Studio democratizes the creation of AR experiences for specific objects. It is a highly efficient and easy-to-use authoring tool for creating use-case specific experiences, which are delivered through ThingWorx View.
Experiences built in ThingWorx Studio enable a composite view of digital and physical product data, dashboards, and alerts presented in 2D, 3D, and AR - without the need to write code.

 

Experience Service

Experience Service is at the heart of providing contextualized information within AR experiences in the enterprise. It manages the experiences and delivers relevant, contextualized information and analysis for each uniquely identifiable object in the enterprise. Experience Service includes an instance of ThingWorx, making connecting your IoT solutions to AR experiences seamless.

 

ThingWorx View

ThingWorx View solves the challenge of knowing which application goes with what object. It is a new way for users
to experience their smart, connected world. ThingWorx View is a single application that universally recognizes
objects through uniquely identifiable ThingMarks, and produces rich mobile user experiences of seamlessly  connected real-time product data. This information is delivered via usecase specific experiences enhanced by 3D
product navigation and AR interaction. ThingWorx View is the web browser for recognizable objects in the enterprise.

 

Augmented Reality and the Enterprise:

Augmented reality presents both interesting opportunities and challenges for developers trying to deploy applications with AR at scale. Creating AR apps at scale has been historically difficult, limiting the reach of how much and what can be developed.

Typically, the development of AR applications supported sales and marketing efforts to help companies sell more products or differentiate themselves in the minds of consumers. However, there are new possibilities for AR in the enterprise to improve service, operation and engineering/manufacturing of products.

The challenges executing against these new opportunities include: how do you create AR experiences at scale, connect those experiences with real-time contextualized information and deliver it in a way that is both immersive, easy to understand and ultimately actionable for a user?

 

Application vs. Experience

Rather than creating many standalone, platformspecific app with ThingWorx Studio, solution builders can use the authoring tool along with ThingWorx View to create and dynamically deliver an “experience” – not just another app. This solves the problem of creating an app for every object. Instead of potentially creating millions of apps, you can have one app that can recognize an object and serve up immersive experiences to a user whenever and wherever it is needed.

ThingMarks

ThingMarks are uniquely identifiable marks on a specific object that are universally recognizable by ThingWorx
View. ThingMarks need to be recognizable to ThingWorx View in order for the appropriate experiences and
corresponding data to be delivered for the specific thing and use case. If a user sees a ThingMark on an object they
should know that it is discoverable by ThingWorx View.

 

How Does It Work?

1. Objects are connected with enterprise system data and external data sources inside of Experience Service.
2. AR experiences are then created using ThingWorx Studio.
3. The experiences are then stored inside of Experience Service and recalled and populated with the correct, contextualized information for each object through visual recognition of the ThingMark via ThingWorx View.

 

Key Features

• Rapidly create AR experiences without writing code
• Extend the value of engineering CAD data with use in AR
• Support for multiple 3D file formats including Creo View, STEP, IGES, STL, OBJ & VRML
• Automatically optimize and reduce 3D data for high performing AR experiences
• Intuitive 3D navigation and interaction with objects
• Create UI layouts for mobile devices with interactive components
• Add sensor displays, which connect to live IoT data from physical objects
• Re-use animations sequences for instructional AR experiences
• Place ThingMarks for unique object recognition and tracking via ThingWorx View
• CSS editing to customize look and feel for experiences
• Connect to Thing Model inside ThingWorx for IoT object definitions and data
• Support for hands-on developers via JavaScript extensions
• Preview experiences prior to publishing to users
• Seamless integration between ThingWorx Studio and ThingWorx View for quick experience publishing and consumption