Simulation and Analysis

• Drive product decisions by analyzing concepts early in the design process
• Shorten product development cycle time by reducing the amount of testing required
• Discover strengths and weaknesses in your products before they are ever built

Product development experts are finding that lack of success with new products is related to an increasing trend in companies' new product portfolios: too many incremental and not enough radical innovations. There is a focus on time to market and the lure of "easy wins" associated with incremental innovations. Conversely, radical innovations present uncertainty about technical challenges, and the time required to analyze and test these innovative concepts. To address these issues, companies are leveraging Leading Edge's skill and experience in analysis and simulation. We have been able to direct product development by virtually testing concepts in the development phase and understanding their strengths and weaknesses, leveraging this information to select and improve innovative concepts early in the development process where changes are less costly.

The increased confidence from using simulation to drive the development processes also reduces the need for physical testing, both in terms of time and the number of costly prototypes, which helps to shorten the time to market.

Areas of analysis expertise include:

• Linear and non-linear analysis FEA
• Fatigue and weld fatigue analysis
• Modal and Linear Dynamic FEA
• Non-linear Explicit FEA
• Rigid Body Kinematics and Dynamic Analysis
• Analysis of plastics and non-metallic components

Our simulation tools include the following:

• ABAQUS
• Nastran
• fe-safe and Verity
• I-DEAS
• HyperMesh
• Pro/ENGINEER
• Matlab