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GENERAL MACHINERY |
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This is a very large segment encompassing many types of mechanical equipment, as listed below. However, there are common CAE solutions and analysis demands for all this type of equipment.
• General Industrial machinery
• Turbines and engine
• Conveyor and material transfer equipment
• Hoists and cranes
• Industrial molds
• Robotics
• Packaging machinery
• Circuit breaker
• Machine tools
• Food products machinery
Textile and paper making equipment
• Pumps and pumping equipments
• Compressors
• Wind turbines
• Power transmission equipment
• Laundry and dry cleaning equipment
• Recreational equipment design
• Amusement ride design
• Movie/television animation
• Sport shoe design
• Exercise equipment design
• Mechatronics
• Biomechanics, Ergonomics, and Medical Equipment
 Some of the common CAE requirements in this vertical segment are
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High Speed Impacts |
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Many of these machines incorporate contacting parts. CAE tools are used to understand the dynamics of these impacts and how they affect the performance of the machine
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Vibration |
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Many of these machines involve revolving or cycling parts, which often leads to vibration problems. CAE tools are used to simulate these vibrations and develop damping or a countering mechanism in the machines.
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Cams |
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Cams are used to control timing in may of these machines. Cam profile design and verification, lift-off, and optimization are achieved by using CAE tools.
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Chain and Gear drives |
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Many of these machines also use chain/gear drives. CAE tools are used to simulate chain drives to understand forces in links, vibrations, and wear. With gear drives, gear meshing and "backlash" or play in the gear mechanism are studied using CAE tools.
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Motor drives |
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Engineers must select motor power rating based upon anticipated machine loads. CAE tools let them simulate their design and size drive motors much more accurately than other methods.
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Springs |
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Most of these machines rely upon springs in many parts of the mechanisms to impart proper forces for retention and return of component positions, for damping vibrations, etc. CAE tools lets engineers properly design spring characteristics for the required task.
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Complex kinematic link |
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Machines that must perform path based tasks requires complex kinematic linkages. CAE tools lets engineer design and verify these linkages.
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FEA Loading |
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It is very important that all component parts of the machine are capable of safely handling their anticipated mechanical loading. CAE tools let engineer develop accurate load cases to verify that component parts are properly designed, yet not "over-designed".
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High Precision / High Speed Mechanisms |
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These machines requires very high precision
mechanism, which often operate at high speeds. CAE tools lets engineer design, analyze, and verify these mechanisms without requiring expensive and potentially dangerous prototype testing.
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Visualization |
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Custom-designed or "one-off" machines can be simulated and visualized using CAE tools before any prototype are built, allowing customers to buy off on design early in the design process. |
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