The PIAE has been the established industry event for over 40 years. With around 50 contributions from automotive manufacturers and suppliers, interactive workshops and world cafés, the conference will present the latest plastics applications in the field of interior, exterior, engine, materials and technologies. We are pleased that the event could be held this, even though in a different framework than foreseen - namely digitally. The Online-exhibition, with exhibitors from the entire value chain, provided the ideal setting for networking with the specialists. We would like to thank the numerous active participants who attended the workshop this morning which was held by by Cristoph Hinse, Managing Director SimpaTec, and Fabien Buchy, Managing Director SimpaTec SARL with the topic: "Benefit of process and mechanical calculation and its optimization". They truly contributet to its success!!
Eagerly awaited and now available – proudly we present the French version of our SimpaTec website. Easily choose whatever language is most suited for you and browse and enjoy all of the latest news, stories, events, topics, etc. in your favorite environment. Take a look and try it!!! The meanwhile established German and English version, which at the time of its release had undergone an intense phase of resourceful creativity and fundamental alterations including the texts, images, movies as well as the general look and feel of the predecessor, the French version has now become another core element of the website. Even though ‘here and there’ it might not quite be perfect yet and a translation may still be in the so called ‘translation loop’, we are extremely happy to be able to provide our Frenchspeaking customers and interested parties this functionality, from which we are convinced that it paves the way towards even more comfort whilst appreciating the content. Enjoy this new feature while browsing through the site and please feel free to send us your feedback.
Do you know that the amount of crystallized polymer in injection molding strongly depends on the cooling rates? Use the tools in Moldex3D Studio to navigate the crystallization values in your part. Relative crystallinity in Moldex is defined as the absolute crystallization divided by the ultimate crystallinity. When a semi-crystalline material is slowly cooled down, the amount of crystallized chains ratio reaches to the ultimate crystallinity and equivalently the relative crystallinity would be 1 (or 100%). Now, if the material is cooled down faster the crystals won’t have enough time to form and the relative crystallinity will be lower than 1. Fast cooling occurs near the surfaces, where the part is thin, or in areas near the cooling channels. If you want to measure the relative crystallinity in your part you first should be careful that You have included the crystallization effect in your calculations. You have selected “Extend Packing Calculation to end of cooling” (Home -> Computation -> Flow/Pack -> Extend Packing Calculation to cooling phase). After the simulation is finished, you have different possibilities to see the crystallization results at different stages using different tools. For example, you can see the results along the thickness of the part. To do so: Select the packing stage in the result toolbar. Go to the Result tab and select “XY Plot – Thickness”. Make sure the options are selected correctly: correct Run, Molding Stage Packing, Data All Probe, Result Relative Crystallinity. Using the probe tool (the finger sign) choose a probe node where you want to see the result. The node should be selected on top of the part. Select the probe and use the >> to plot the results. Deeper insights are of interest!? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
You have created a cooling system or gating system in Moldex3D which is based on lines and for example would like to change the position of a line end afterwards? Use commands in Moldex3D Studio when modeling cooling channels, gating systems and line-based bodies in order to adjust them afterwards. The advantages of line-based gating and cooling systems include the possibilities of flexible modeling and easy adaptation of the geometries in Moldex3D without additional CAD software. Numerous tools are available in the Moldex3D Studio interface to create and modify line-based bodies. In addition, "hidden" functions can be called via the command line, which make pre-processing even easier: The command "crveditend", for example, allows you to move one line end while the other line end remains fixed. If a geometry has already been created based on the line, the geometry settings such as the diameters are also retained. This means that small geometry adjustments in the cooling system or gating system can be implemented in no time at all without having to recreate the duct sections and repeat the settings again. Useful functions such as these help in everyday life, especially when modeling customized designs, to implement optimization changes more quickly and to create the simulation model more efficiently. Deeper insights are of interest!? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
Simulation plays a major role to help manufacturers to easily crossover to lightweight materials and manufacturing processes. Moldex3D continues its technology leadership in fiber composites simulation with its flow-fiber coupling analysis feature, which empowers engineers to more accurately capture the anisotropic flow behavior induced by fiber orientation. Composite components that deal with high concentration of fibers and demand high accuracy will greatly benefit from this innnovative coupling method. Moldex3D fiber orientation analysis also supports a new filler type—flat fibers to enable greater design freedom and help achieve better mechanical properties and improved dimensional stability Interested? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
Congratulations to SimpaTec’s Managing Director, Cristoph Hinse, who is the FIRST recipient to receive the “Moldex3D Master Certificate” awarded by CoreTech System Co., Ltd.. This certificate is a distinct honor reserved for those who have made outstanding contributions in the field of plastics molding simulation applications, plastics engineering and technology, or in the management of similar activities. Throughout the years since founding SimpaTec in 2004, with the purpose to serve customers with Moldex3D series products, Cristoph has accomplished accountable achievements which led to this prestigious award. To this day, the software has been widely used across a variety of industries by more than 1,000 users to aid the design and manufacture of plastic products. Furthermore, together with his team, he was a true pioneer to help introduce CAE innovations to the polymer industry. Cristoph’s long-term experience and his thrive to evolve and move forward paves the way to continuously help further develop Moldex3D to become better tool to deal with complex design and manufacturing issues. Being the leader of MACC certified training center and being part of the Technology Conference Cristoph has become the FIRST awardee of 'Moldex3D Master Certificate'. Cristoph and the entire SimapTec team expresses a heartily THANK-YOU to CoreTech System Co., Ltd and looks forward to a fruitful mutual cooperation within the years to come.
Do you have warpage problems with your plastic parts and already have experience with gas injection or water injection processes? With the GAIM/WAIM modules Moldex3D offers the possibility to simulate these fluid injection processes. Thus, complex experiments as well as material and manufacturing costs can be reduced and the processes can be perfectly designed. Both processes the gas injection technology (GAIM) and water injection technology (WAIM) are fluid injection technology based. Here, just like in the conventional injection molding process, the molded part cavity is first filled completely or partially and then either gas (GAIM) or water (WAIM) is injected as a fluid. Moldex3D enables the simulation of the entire process from starting with the filling of the mold as a first step and then followed by injecting the fluid (2nd phase). In the second phase, the fluid displaces the polymer melt and creates a cavity in the molded part. One of the effects is the resulting wall thickness distribution. This enables to determine possible material and weight reduction and also allows the geometries to be exported for a structural-mechanical simulation. Furthermore, beneficial effects on the process (cooling times) and the warpage of the component can be analyzed in detail. Deeper insights are of interest!? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com.
Finally!! The ball is back in play 😊!! The soccer-free time is over ... this also accounts for 'our' soccer team 'TuRa Freienohl'! The soccer team of TuRa Freienohl resumed training at the sports facility in Ohl. The first ones to pick up their training operations were the so called 'Senior-Men's-Team'. Of course, all required hygiene and infection prevention measures are implemented at the sports facility. The football department is aware of its responsibility towards its athletes and coaches. All involved are happy about to regain a piece of normality. We wish 'our' TuRa a lot of success and good luck for the re-entry! We keep our fingers crossed that the Covid19 situation will continue to soothen and that soon spectators will celebrate the achievements with due applause! Meanwhile it is hard to imagine the city of Freienohl without the TuRa Freienohl 1888/09 e.V. club. One in four of the approximately 4,400 inhabitants is a member of the association. Active sports are practiced in seven sectors: Soccer, gymnastics/athletics, handball, table tennis, swimming and volleyball. A special focus lies on the work with young people - currently, more than 500 children and young people are active sports members. As early as 1910, the gymnastics and athletics company in the gymnastics club faced serious competition from football. By building up a football team: "Fußballclub Adler", the ball game club 1909 was founded in 1911 (by mistake, when the ball club was registered with the local administration, the year of foundation 1909 was taken from the statutes of a neighbouring club). Besides the sport disciplines of athletics ad gymnastics, football is thus one of the oldest sports in the TuRa Freienohl.
Multiple enhancements, a significant increase in the quality of the component, a more efficient workflow and new options and handling improvements are available to the user in the new release of Digimat 2020. The user can particularly look forward to the numerous innovations in the field of additive manufacturing. For example, Digimat-AM 2020 now also supports continuous fiber reinforced materials including the display of new results of the pososities. Further release highlights in Digimat-AM 2020 include: _ Improved handling of the results in post-processing _ Automatic superposition, definition of a reference level for warpage evaluation _ Simple comparability between simulation and scan result (real adjustment) _ Individual consideration for multi-component printing _ Support of partial infill for FFF and FDM processes _ Support of endless fibre reinforced materials _ Thermomechanical solver _ New result of porosity _ Support for new 3D printers _ FFF: Roboze Argo 500 and MarkForged X7 _ Support of Stratasys tool path 222 _ Support of thermo-viscoelastic material with transversely isotropic fibres Interested? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
The previous functions and possibilities for Resin Transer Molding have been supplemented with a lot of care and intensity by a variety of effective and high-quality features. The user can now not only perform uncomplicated warpage analyses in the area of RTM, but it is also possible to directly and immediately consider drape effects of LS-DYNA, so that high-quality RTM components are simulated precisely and without errors. A further focus is on the user interfaces for RTM pre- and post-processing. These have undergone a complete facelift and have thus become considerably more intuitive and user-friendly. Furthermore, there is the option to define groups of fiber mats, boundary conditions and material groups and to visualize their layer orientation on each layer. Interested? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
Test the FULL FUNCTIONALITY of Moldex3D until the end of the year when purchasing a basic module! A good simulation starts with the filling. According to this headline SimpaTec, being a competent engineering and software partner for innovative methods and solution concepts for the plastics processing industry, at present offers a smart introduction to the injection molding process simulation using Moldex3D. By already purchasing the Moldex3D basic module one is in a position to quickly and reliably identify the first weak points of the component or the tool layout and able to initiate possible countermeasures. Part defects, such as weld lines or voids, often occur in the early phase of component development. By means of the available filling results, sectional views or even XY-curves as well as various reporting options, possible design adjustments and wall thickness optimizations can be analyzed. These can then be discussed amongst the design team and further developed. In order to demonstrate the full range of Moldex3D, the leading 3D CAE software package for the analysis, design and optimization of the component, tool and process, one will receive the complete functionality of the entire CAE package (including packing, temperature control and warpage etc.) as a free trial version immediately when purchasing an entry-level basic module until the end of the year. This provides the opportunity to test the software in detail. At the end of the year, one can then decide whether to switch to the complete simulation package or to continue to use the basic module. Interested? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
How many times do you struggle to find the most appealing design and fit the limited budget at the same time? Difficult to optimize Design for Manufacturing on your plastic part? We have a tool which can find its own way to the target, from design to process - SmartDO. Interested? Let’s have a peek at how it works! Everyone loves appealing design - not only from aesthetic aspect, but also from functionality perspective. Designers plot us the future and engineers make it present. Lighter, stronger, cheaper..etc, all these fascinating terms increase limitations for engineers to create the magic. And the challenge always arises - How to optimize design for manufacturing? Take the illustrated washing machine cover for example. Producing the lightest part is the target. But how to reach the goal from design to manufacturing? Here’s how we do it by using SmartDO. Firstly, we started from functionality design. A lightest cover should still withstand all the external forces to a certain level. Therefore, we created a parametric model with adjustable thickness at the base and peripherial regions, also for the ribs and their positions. This paramteric model was then taken into structural analysis for design validation. Once this Model Creation – Validation loop was established, SmartDO was connected to this loop and intervened parameter changes via result examination until the optimal output was obtained. NX and Ansys were used for parametric model creation and structural analysis respectively in this case. External loading constraints for the lightest part are – when applying 5kg loading in the center, maximum displacement should be less than 1.8mm and maximum stress should not exceed 23MPa. By SmartDO design optimization, the optimal part reaches 16% weight reduciton while the maximum displacement is 1.77mm and maximum stress is 22.77MPa! But the path for lightweight part is not yet ended here. We can still optimize our process for further weight reduction. The next part - SmartDO procession optimizaiton - will be revealed in the coming article. Would like to know SmartDO in more detail? Please contact us: + 49 (0)241-565 276-0 or send us an email to info@simpatec.com .
"Comme le temps passe vite !" convient parfaitement. Il n'y a pas longtemps, nous avons célébré les 15 ans de SimpaTec, aujourd'hui l'une des principales sociétés d'ingénierie et de logiciels pour l'industrie de la transformation des matières plastiques, et bientôt le prochain événement - SimpaTec Sarl fêtera son 10e anniversaire en septembre 2020 ! Au commencement ... L'idée d'intensifier et d'étendre le rayon d'action de l'entreprise au-delà des frontières allemandes a commencé à se développer fin 2009, lorsque Fabien Buchy a rejoint l'équipe de SimpaTec à Aix-la-Chapelle en février 2009, après avoir rencontré Cristoph Hinse lors d'une présentation de Moldex3D. Fabien a apporté non seulement des connaissances spécialisées dans le domaine de la simulation du moulage par injection, qu'il avait déjà acquises pendant ses études d'ingénieur à l'université de Metz, mais aussi une expérience professionnelle pratique, qu'il a pu acquérir chez BEHR FRANCE, d'abord en tant qu'ingénieur calcul et ensuite en tant que responsable du domaine de la simulation des plastiques. Chez SimpaTec, Fabien a été dès le début le seul responsable des ventes, du service clientèle et de la gestion de projets dans la région française. Il a très tôt reconnu le fort potentiel du marché français. C'est la raison pour laquelle Cristoph et Fabien ont décidé de fonder une filiale française. 10 ans - Étapes importantes ... Avec la création de SimpaTec Sarl, Fabien a pris la responsabilité globale de la France, de la Belgique et des Pays-Bas en tant que directeur général. En 2009, il a signé son premier contrat Moldex3D avec Behr France, le début d'une grande aventure et en 2010, il a organisé son premier événement à Lyon, en France - un véritable succès. Année après année, il a été vu dans de plus en plus de lieux, de conférences, de salons ou de réunions, s'impliquant intensivement dans l'élargissement du dialogue avec l'industrie et la conquête de nouveaux marchés. Il a établi de nouveaux contacts commerciaux, par exemple avec Dr Vito LEO, dont les séminaires BIMS sont rapidement devenus une partie importante de ses événements en France. En 2018, il a organisé sa plus grande conférence à ce jour, le MTC à Paris, pour CoreTech, le développeur du logiciel Moldex3D. Plus de 200 personnes y ont participé ! Quel immense triomphe ! Pas à pas, il a développé SimpaTec Sarl jusqu'à sa position actuelle de leader du marché en France. Il a réussi à convaincre de nombreuses entreprises que l'apport de la simulation est un véritable capital et que l'utilisation d'un outil logiciel d'IAO 3D peut faire la différence décisive dans la concurrence quotidienne. Si l'on devait décrire Fabien, les traits caractéristiques suivants lui conviennent parfaitement : toujours avide de connaissances, ouvert, disposé à partager et à discuter son savoir-faire, à échanger des idées, curieux des gens et désireux de s'impliquer avec eux. Il parle rarement de clients, mais de partenaires. Chaque partenaire lui ouvre de nouveaux horizons, de nouveaux contenus intéressants et l'aide à satisfaire sa soif de connaissances. Fabien a réussi à former une équipe puissante et parfaitement coordonnée, composée entre-temps de cinq employés de la société unipersonnelle de l'époque. Chacun d'entre eux remplit ses tâches avec un savoir-faire, un engagement, une discipline et une intégrité sans faille, que ce soit au bureau ou sur la route, lors d'événements d'entreprise, de salons, de conférences, de réunions ou chez des clients, des clients potentiels, des partenaires commerciaux ou des parties intéressées - MERCI pour 10 ans de soutien actif et de coopération précieuse ! Les grands événements projettent leurs ombres au premier plan ... En raison des restrictions actuelles de Covid19, il ne sera très probablement pas possible de célébrer correctement cette année. Nous avons donc décidé de célébrer dûment le 10e anniversaire lors de la prochaine réunion internationale des utilisateurs de SimpaTec en 2021. Pour la première fois, une réunion d'utilisateurs ne se tiendra donc pas sur le sol allemand. Elle se tiendra à Strasbourg, capitale de la région Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, dans le nord-est de la France, et siège officiel du Parlement européen. Dès que la date sera fixée - très probablement au printemps 2021 - des invitations seront envoyées à nos utilisateurs. Cristoph Hinse, directeur général de SimpaTec, et Fabien Buchy, directeur général de SimpaTec Sarl, ainsi que toute l'équipe de SimpaTec, se réjouissent déjà de "trinquer" au 10e anniversaire de SimpaTec Sarl avec les clients, les partenaires commerciaux et tous les participants. Santé & à bientôt!
SimpaTec reinforces its presence in Austria with its own Location. SimpaTec’s new home in Austria is located at the Industriezeile 35 at Linzer Hafen within the premises of the new shipyard - Technologiedock Linz. The new shipyard offers the perfect combination of unique office spaces situated directly at the harbor and has an established and successful network which is already a leading competence center for innovative IT companies across the country. The harbor of Linz itself is to be constantly redesigned and modernized in the upcoming coming years. The harbor district is thus one of the most important and exciting development areas of the city and is already of crucial importance for the economic region of Linz. "The decision for Linz was not difficult", confirms Marc Kurz, Branch Manager of Reutlingen and new Managing Director in Austria. "In recent years, Linz has increasingly developed into one of the technology centers in Austria. We believe this to be the ideal location to establish new business relationships and to steadily expand them. Of course, the proximity to our customers as well as the university's environment is of particular importance to us. These are ideal conditions to realize our ambitious future plans for the Austrian market." Marc Kurz will now also be responsible for the location in Linz. A consistent step within his career at SimpaTec so far. Already since February 2013, he has been supporting the SimpaTec team as a sales manager of the branch office in Reutlingen. His duties include administrative duties as an authorized representative as well as the competent support for customers in southern Germany and Switzerland. “With Marc Kurz we are extremely pleased to have found an experienced Managing Director with enormous expertise in technical sales, tool and mold construction technologies and - of course - injection molding simulation on site, "confirms Cristoph Hinse. “We wish him and us all the best for the new assignment in Austria and a lot of success."
SimpaTec is delighted to announce its close cooperation with e-Xstream engineering, a software and engineering services company which focuses on state-of-the-art multi-scale modeling of complex multi-phase composites materials and structures. Consequent decision for Cooperation Upholding the motto "Break the limits" - a corporate slogan and, above all, an invitation to everyone to wake up, to think beyond ones borders and to conquer new horizons - SimpaTec is proud to have been chosen to sell and support Digimat, alongside e-Xstream and its existing partners in the German and French speaking market. "The attentive views about the requirements of those markets are absolutely important to us. We are extremely anxious to see which limits we can positively influence in those areas”, confirms Cristoph Hinse, Managing Director of SimpaTec GmbH, with a wink. "We like to be close to all relevant market topics and we are sure to be able to intensify and qualify our activities enormously in the relevant market sectors."
The software is the perfect tool to display and analyze all common CAD formats. Equipped with a powerful graphic and a super-fast interface the 3D_Analyzer opens even large assemblies with impressive speed. Additionally, main functions such as PDQ analysis, component comparison, wall thickness analysis, collision detection and undercut analysis are displayed precisely and the easy import of neutral and native formats is supported smoothly. Interested? We are happy to inform you personally in more detail.
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