Hello everyone,
We are about to make some key decision on software selection and one point of interest I have is the degree of standardisation I can implement in our product development process.
That is, when we develop new products (generally very similar one to another), we generally do not perform FEA or CFD because of the time it takes, or lack of skilled staff.
My intention is to standardize the way we model, so we can apply template for FEA or CFD and get the calculation running more quickly. The next step would then be to automate it.
That is, I have my model finished according to defined modelling policy, I then click a button and my FEA, CFD start.,
This could be pushed further, Upon check in CDF or FEA start automatically (as the CAD worker does to publish models), and if results are outside certain limits a warning (email) is sent, otherwise it is all good. Or simply the results are posted somewhere.
Obviously, as you can see, I am not expert in this area.
My questions to you are
Have you reached this level of standardisation and automatition
Do you think this is possible (technically speaking as I appreciate you do not know our products)
Thanks a lot