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  • CAE / CFD Analysts
  • Manufacturing & Production Engineers
  • PLM & IT Teams
  • R&D Managers
  • Decision Makers & Innovation Leaders

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Upcoming Webinar Topics

Webinar Agenda: Front-Loading Electronics CFD with Simcenter FLOEFD

Session Overview

Discover how Simcenter FLOEFD, a powerful CAD-embedded CFD solution, enables early-stage (“frontloaded”) thermal and airflow analysis for electronic product development. This session will show how conducting simulation directly within the CAD environment helps identify risks earlier, reduces design rework, and drives highly reliable products to market faster.

  • Introduction to Electronics Cooling Challenges
    • Thermal risks in electronics designs
    • Delays and costs of late-stage thermal validation
  • Importance of Front-Loaded CFD
    • Role in modern electronics product development
    • Impact on reducing prototypes and iterations
  • Key Benefits of Simcenter FLOEFD
    • Direct CAD integration for simulation-driven design
    • Accelerates what-if studies and design optimization
  • Application Areas of FLOEFD in Electronics
    • PCB, components, fans, heat sources, enclosures
    • Electronics-specific physics and model setup automation
  • Best Practices in Early Electronics CFD
    • Simplification and boundary condition selection
    • Efficient early design and trade-off studies
  • Live Demonstration: CAD-Embedded CFD Workflow
    • Thermal/airflow results review
    • Design comparison and optimization examples
  • Simcenter FLOEFD and Simcenter portfolio integration
  • Q&A and Discussion

Webinar Agenda: Digital Thread with Siemens NX

Session Overview

This Webinar introduces the Digital Thread concept in Siemens NX, demonstrating how engineering data flows seamlessly from design to manufacturing and inspection. Participants will learn how NX supports design validation, simulation, AI-assisted engineering, manufacturing automation, and quality verification to enable a connected digital enterprise.

  • Introduction to Digital Thread
    • What is Digital Thread
    • Digital Thread in Automotive Product Lifecycle
    • Importance of Data Continuity
    • Digital Twin and Digital Thread relationship
  • Design Center using Siemens NX
    • Product design workflow in NX
    • Design templates and standardization
    • Synchronous Technology overview
    • Advanced assembly management and visualization
    • Class-A surfacing concepts and surface continuity (G0, G1, G2, G3)
    • Reverse engineering and Product Template Studio
    • Introduction to Mechatronic Concept Designer and PDC Wizard etc.
  • Design Validation and Quality Tools
    • Importance of CAD validation
    • Check-Mate for automated design validation
    • HD3D tools for visualization and issue identification
    • Visual Reporting for model and assembly analysis
    • DFM Advisor for manufacturability validation
  • Simulation and Engineering Optimization
    • NX integrated simulation overview
    • Structural, thermal and motion analysis
    • Generative engineering and topology optimization
    • Performance Predictor for early design validation
    • Molded Part Validation for manufacturing feasibility
  • AI and Smart Engineering in NX
    • NX Co-Pilot AI assistance
    • NX Command Prediction
    • Select Similar Components, Faces, and Edges using machine learning
    • Productivity improvements with AI tools
  • Smart Manufacturing with NX
    • Overview of NX CAM applications
    • 2.5 Axis, 3 Axis and 5 Axis machining
    • Mill-Turn and robotic machining applications
    • Feature Based Machining (FBM)
    • NX Cloud Tool Management
  • Production Engineering and Factory Planning
    • NX CAM WEDM overview
    • Technomatix for digital manufacturing planning
    • NX Line Designer for factory layout planning
    • Production efficiency and digital factory concept
  • Inspection and Quality Assurance
    • Variation Analysis (VSA) for GD&T validation
    • Assembly tolerance analysis
    • NX CMM inspection programming
    • Inspection simulation before shop floor execution
  • Q&A and Discussion
    • Industry use cases and best practices
    • Digital Thread implementation strategies
    • Participant questions and discussion

First-Time-Right Die Design with Simcenter 3D

Webinar Objective

Learn how to ensure first-time-right tool quality and durability in die design by leveraging advanced strength and fatigue simulation within Simcenter 3D. This webinar outlines end-to-end strategies for analyzing and optimizing dies before manufacturing, helping minimize failures, reduce production downtime, and extend tool life.

See how simulation-driven workflows can accurately predict stresses, deformations, and fatigue, enabling better design decisions and preventing common failure modes in stamping and forming dies.

  1. Industry Context & Die Design Challenges
    • Role of simulation in sheet metal die design (Automotive & Manufacturing)
    • Challenges: high stamping stresses, fatigue failures, unpredictable tool life
    • Limitations of traditional trial-and-error approaches
  2. Simcenter 3D Overview: Simulation-Driven Die Validation
    • Capabilities of Simcenter 3D for die structural analysis
    • Simulation as an enabler of digital continuity in die development
  3. Die Strength Analysis Workflow
    • Geometry preparation and mesh generation
    • Assigning loads from stamping/forming simulations
    • Stress, deflection, and critical region identification
  4. Fatigue and Tool Life Prediction
    • Cyclic loading in tooling & impact on durability
    • Fatigue life simulation using S–N approach
    • Detection of failure-prone die areas
  5. Simulation Workflow Demonstration
    • Step-by-step demo in Simcenter 3D
    • Setup: mesh, loads, boundary conditions
    • Results: stress/deflection, safety factor, fatigue life
    • Design iterations for optimization
  6. Business Impact & Best Practices
    • Reducing die shop rework, scrap, and downtime
    • Boosting die reliability for higher press utilization
    • First-time-right launches: case studies & results
  7. Q&A and Discussion
    • Industry use cases and customer experience
    • Integrating simulation with the digital thread
    • Audience Q&A on challenges and best practices

Advanced 3D Wiring Harness Design and Routing Using Siemens NX

Webinar Objective

This webinar provides an industry-focused overview of advanced 3D wiring harness design and routing in Siemens NX, as applied to real-world projects. Participants will discover how organizations design, route, and manage complex wiring harnesses within product assemblies, while overcoming critical challenges such as space constraints, frequent design changes, and cross-disciplinary coordination.

Discover how precise 3D routing, design validation, and manufacturing-oriented deliverables together drive reduced rework, improved product quality, and accelerated time-to-market.

  1. Industry Context & Challenges
    • Role of wiring harness in Automotive, Aerospace & Industrial machinery
    • Common industry challenges:
      • Late-stage routing issues
      • Space constraints & packaging limitations
      • Frequent engineering changes (ECR/ECN)
      • Electrical and mechanical team disconnects
  2. End-to-End Harness Design Workflow in Industry
    • Typical industry process:
      • Electrical schematic → 3D routing → Flattening → Manufacturing
    • Limitations of traditional approaches (2D vs 3D mismatch)
    • How Siemens NX supports seamless 3D-driven harness workflows
  3. 3D Harness Routing in Real Product Environments
    • Routing harnesses within actual assemblies
    • Ensuring design for manufacturability (DFM)
    • Real-time clash detection and clearance checking
  4. Managing Engineering Changes
    • Handling updates such as connector swaps or reroutes
    • Maintaining associativity between electrical and mechanical designs
    • Whole-harness impact analysis
    • Minimizing rework and iterative cycles
  5. Manufacturing-Oriented Outputs
    • Harness flattening to shop-floor standards
    • Generating:
      • Nail board drawings
      • Cut length reports
      • BOM (Bill of Materials)
    • Ensuring alignment of design and production
  6. Digital Thread & Data Continuity
    • Integration with Teamcenter for version/revision control
    • Single source of truth across the organization
    • Collaboration between design, manufacturing, and suppliers
  7. Business Impact & Use Cases
    • Reduced design error and rework rate
    • Accelerated product development cycles
    • Improved cross-team collaboration
    • Automotive wiring harness project examples
  8. Q&A
  • Simulation for Tooling Reliability
    • Simulation empowers engineers to predict die strength and fatigue life early in the process, resulting in robust and optimized tooling prior to manufacturing.

Advanced CFD-Based Heat Exchanger Performance Evaluation using Simcenter FLOEFD
Webinar Objective

The objective of this webinar is to demonstrate how Simcenter FLOEFD enables advanced CFD-based evaluation of heat exchanger performance directly within the CAD environment. The session explains how simulation-driven analysis can help engineers understand flow distribution, heat transfer behaviour, and pressure losses within heat exchanger systems during early design stages. By integrating CFD into the product development workflow, engineering teams can identify thermal performance limitations, evaluate design alternatives, and optimize heat exchanger efficiency before physical prototyping.

The webinar highlights both engineering and business value, showing how CFD-based performance evaluation supports improved thermal management, optimized system efficiency, and faster product development cycles.

Webinar Agenda
  • Challenges faced in heat exchanger design and late-stage thermal validation
  • Importance of CFD-driven heat exchanger performance evaluation
  • Key benefits of CAD-embedded CFD using Simcenter FLOEFD
  • Enable simulation-driven thermal design during concept and development stages
  • Simcenter FLOEFD value proposition for thermal system and heat exchanger analysis
  • FLOEFD overview for thermal-fluid applications
  • Heat exchanger components – tubes, fins, flow channels, and manifolds
  • Modelling thermal and fluid behaviour in heat exchanger systems
  • CFD workflow for heat exchanger performance analysis inside CAD
  • Early what-if studies and design trade-offs for thermal efficiency and pressure drop
  • Best practices for geometry simplification, boundary conditions, and meshing
  • Live Demonstration –
    • Heat exchanger CFD workflow in FLOEFD
    • Temperature distribution, flow uniformity, and pressure drop results
    • Performance comparison and design optimization
  • Accelerate heat exchanger design exploration and reduce design iterations
  • Integration with the Simcenter simulation portfolio
  • Q&A and key takeaways
“The earlier we understand thermal behaviour, the faster we can design systems that are not only functional—but truly optimized.”

Webinar Agenda: Enhancing Engineering Productivity Using NX Advanced Features
Webinar Objective

This webinar is designed to demonstrate how advanced CAD capabilities within Siemens NX can be effectively leveraged to enhance engineering productivity in product and tooling design environments. It focuses on reducing design cycle time through parametric and associative modeling, design reuse, and efficient handling of large assemblies. The session will also highlight the role of automation—using macros, journals, and NX Open—in minimizing manual effort and standardizing repetitive design tasks. Additionally, it aims to provide insights into improving design quality and reducing errors through integrated validation and knowledge-based engineering approaches. Overall, the objective is to enable engineers and organizations to achieve faster, more consistent, and high-quality design outcomes.

Introduction & Industry Context
  • Challenges in product and tooling design workflows
  • Need to reduce design cycle time
  • Role of CAD automation in improving productivity
Outcome: Understanding current industry gaps
Parametric & Associative Modeling
  • Expressions and inter-part linking
  • Master model concept (product → tooling)
  • Associative updates
Outcome: Reduced redesign effort
Design Reuse & Standardization
  • Reuse libraries and templates
  • Standard tooling components
  • Feature reuse
Outcome: 30–50% faster design for repeat work
NX Automation: Macros & Journals
  • Introduction to NX Journals (record & replay actions)
  • Automating repetitive CAD tasks (sketching, modeling, drafting)
  • Creating simple automation workflows without programming expertise
Outcome:
  • Significant reduction in manual effort
  • Faster execution of repetitive operations
  • Improved consistency across designs
Advanced Automation (NX Open Overview)
  • Extending journals into scalable automation
  • Use cases: automated part creation, drawing generation
  • Integration with engineering workflows
Outcome:
  • Scalable automation across projects
  • Reduced dependency on manual modeling
Synchronous Technology (Fast Design Changes)
  • Editing imported geometry
  • Handling supplier CAD data
  • Rapid design modifications
Outcome: Faster changes with minimal effort
CAD Validation & Assembly Handling
  • Interference and clearance checks
  • Draft analysis
  • Lightweight assemblies and configurations
Outcome: Reduced errors and improved performance
Knowledge-Based Engineering (KBE)
  • Rule-based automation using templates
  • Product Template Studio (PTS)
  • Standardizing design logic
Outcome: Automation of complex and repetitive design processes
Conclusion & Q&A

Predicting the Performance of Automotive Acoustic Material Using FEA

Objectives: The objective of this webinar is to equip engineers with the knowledge to accurately predict and validate the performance of acoustic materials using FEA. It also explains the importance of Altair FEA software in generating well-corroborated acoustic performance parameters aligned with standard test methods such as ASTM E2611. This session will help engineers and business personnel understand how Altair simulation technology can enhance NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) quality, reduce costs, and minimize product development time.

Participants will gain practical knowledge of:

  • Porous material modeling approaches
  • The behaviour of acoustic materials across frequency ranges and their impact on vehicle NVH performance
  • The importance of cross-functional decision-making using a common, data-driven approach

Agenda:
  1. Introduction to Automotive NVH and Acoustic Materials
    • Challenges in acoustic material selection in modern vehicles
    • Why accurate prediction is critical for OEMs
  2. Fundamentals of Acoustic Materials
    • Types: porous, fibrous, foams, multilayer systems
    • Key acoustic parameters:
      • Flow resistivity
      • Porosity, tortuosity
      • Bulk modulus & density
  3. Material Characterization Techniques
    • Impedance tube (Kundt’s tube) method
    • Transfer matrix method (TMM) basics
  4. Challenges in Conventional Acoustic Material Testing
  5. Live Demonstration using Altair Optistrut
    • Geometry and boundary conditions
    • Acoustic domain modelling
    • Porous material modeling methods (Delany–Bazley / JCA models)
    • Mesh strategy and frequency range
    • Excitation and microphone locations
    • Extraction of absorption coefficient
  6. Correlation: Physical vs Virtual Results
    • Impedance tube vs FEA comparison
    • Sources of deviation and error
  7. Benefits of Virtual Testing
  8. Conclusions and Future Scope
    • Key takeaways
    • Data-driven material modeling
  9. Q&A Session

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