A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Do We Need To Manage CAE Data in PLM?

Do We Need To Manage CAE Data in PLM?
olegshilovitsky
olegshilovitsky
4 February, 2010 | 1 min for reading

I want to discuss CAE today. CAE is considered as a technology to support engineers in tasks such as analysis, simulation, design, manufacture, planning, diagnosis, and repair. CAE considered as a mainstream technology applied for design and manufacturing. In my view, CAE is one of the major sources of engineering information in the organization.

CAE coverage includes:

  • Stress analyzes
  • FEA
  • CDF
  • Kinematics
  • Event simulations
  • Process simulations

However, the topic I want to discuss today is an intersection of CAE and PLM. To be more specific about what system supposed to manage CAE related data? In my view, this topic is heavily missed in most of PDM and PLM systems. Most of them are completely focused on CAD models, drawings and, lately Bill of Materials. At the same time, CAE, as a massive producer of engineering information about a product is not covered. What I found that high-end CAD systems have a more dedication to this topic, but still not enough, in my view.
What are the aspects of CAE that need to be covered by PLM as a data management platform:

  • Keep references on results of calculations and analyze. It will allow to have all relevant product records in one place.
  • To support variation of product data in case of work on alternative designs, configurations, etc.
  • Keep the historical record of analyzes for audit, regulatory and solving customer’s critical situations.

I found these capabilities undervalued and will be interested to hear about your experience and opinion.

Best, Oleg

Share

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
16 January, 2012

Silicon Valley is well known by the high concentration of web start-up companies. My recent conclusion about PLM Highway (Rt....

16 February, 2018

I’m polishing my presentation for PLMx conference next week in Hamburg. If you haven’t heard about the event, check here...

12 March, 2019

You probably noticed a growing popularity of “Digital Twin”. Check this picture below showing you Google Search trend. People are...

18 March, 2025

In some of my recent articles, I discussed the transformation of one of the main principles of PLM development that...

7 March, 2017

Digital transformation is a fundamental trend we experience every day in our life. Remember the time when most of information...

25 September, 2020

The abbreviation PLM often triggers many debates and questions. Starting from blunt questions about what is PLM to more serious...

22 January, 2014

The topic of network performance is one of the favorites when it comes to discuss viability of cloud storage and...

26 February, 2021

How to approach a large mass market? Many companies in the software business asked this question when building their products,...

11 February, 2016

Once open source software was a no-go solution in enterprise software. I remember debates and discussions about open-source code with...

Blogroll

To the top