CIMdata has published a new paper about Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM).
To help design and perfect today’s more complex products, simulation and analysis (S&A) is becoming increasingly important to manufacturing enterprises of all sizes.
Broader, deeper, and more effective simulation is needed to properly analyse the complex products being designed and developed and validate that they meet functional and regulatory requirements.
S&A tools and methodologies must be used more effectively throughout the product development process to improve designs and reduce the cost of prototyping and physical testing. This is driving increased investments in simulation and the need to better manage S&A tools, data, and processes.
Because of the increased need for and importance of simulation, companies now recognise that S&A information is valuable intellectual property (IP) that needs to be captured, shared, and leveraged throughout the product lifecycle.
New approaches are transforming product-related S&A into a visible and accessible component of the product development process, across the full product lifecycle and across extended enterprises; not just maintaining them as a domain for specialists.
We call this approach to managing S&A information and processes, and integrating it within the full product lifecycle, Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM). SLM is the enterprise’s gateway to simulation tools, processes, and data.
This paper provides a perspective on simulation lifecycle management: the pressures that motivate its use; SLM’s role; its value and future; and how one company, Dassault Systèmes, is developing and delivering advanced SLM solutions for product development companies.
Download the paper Simulation Lifecycle Management.
To bring simulation data and processes into the enterprise lifecycle, leading-edge companies are implementing programs to get their simulation data under control and to better manage their simulation processes and knowledge.
These companies seek to include the analysis of intellectual property as part of their product lifecycle management (PLM) implementation. However, bringing simulation into the enterprise is much more than managing simulation data.
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