Multi-million dollar project will deploy LMS Virtual.Lab to over 300 users
LMS International today announced that the Chrysler Group unit of DaimlerChrysler AG has signed an agreement for products and services, which will significantly improve the Chrysler Group’s engineering productivity in the areas of Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH), Durability and Impact simulation.
Under the agreement, LMS will provide the Chrysler Group with LMS Virtual.Lab, a comprehensive software environment for functional performance engineering in the conceptual phase of product development. LMS will also team up with Chrysler Group engineers to evaluate the automaker’s current processes, remove bottlenecks, increase value-added engineering time and improve the overall quality of designs.
The resulting software system will also integrate the computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and physical testing environments together for faster response rates to design changes and improved CAE productivity.
According to Dr. Jack Thompson, Director of CAE and Concept Development at the Chrysler Group, “Timely functional performance engineering for attributes like noise, vibration, durability and crash performance is one of the challenges we are tackling in our vehicle development process. With the help of LMS Virtual.Lab, which is specifically built for cross-disciplinary attribute engineering, we are able to better leverage our proven analytical tools to enhance the virtual design process.”
In addition, LMS Virtual.Lab will enable the Chrysler Group to speed up the virtual design process, improve the accuracy and quality of virtual prototype simulations and standardize the types of software being used for NVH, durability and impact simulations. The evolutionary rollout of LMS Virtual.Lab at the Chrysler Group will be a multi-year process, ultimately reaching across all of the company’s vehicle platforms and component teams.
“We are very excited about this strategic implementation of LMS Virtual.Lab,” Chairman and CEO Urbain Vandeurzen stated. “The Chrysler Group decision is another confirmation of our vision and strategy to combine the strengths of both physical and virtual prototyping to meet the growing demands made on the engineering community to optimize mission critical product attributes and brand values. Our commitment to radical product and process innovation and the superior integration that comes with LMS Virtual.Lab were important factors for LMS to be selected by the Chrysler Group as a strategic CAE partner.”
About LMS Virtual.Lab
LMS Virtual.Lab is the world’s first integrated software environment for the functional performance engineering of critical design attributes, such as noise and vibration, ride & handling, comfort, safety & durability. Fully associative, it automatically links to leading CAD and CAE tools, captures the process flow to better manage the analysis sequence, and enables engineers to refine their designs in virtual space not just at the component level - but also at the sub-assembly and full system level where most performance problems occur. By eliminating unnecessary file transfers, model and data redundancies, and automating the analysis process, LMS Virtual.Lab dramatically increases the time available for value-added engineering.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
LMS International today announced that the Chrysler Group unit of DaimlerChrysler AG has signed an agreement for products and services, which will significantly improve the Chrysler Group’s engineering productivity in the areas of Noise, Vibration & Harshness (NVH), Durability and Impact simulation.
Under the agreement, LMS will provide the Chrysler Group with LMS Virtual.Lab, a comprehensive software environment for functional performance engineering in the conceptual phase of product development. LMS will also team up with Chrysler Group engineers to evaluate the automaker’s current processes, remove bottlenecks, increase value-added engineering time and improve the overall quality of designs.
The resulting software system will also integrate the computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE), and physical testing environments together for faster response rates to design changes and improved CAE productivity.
According to Dr. Jack Thompson, Director of CAE and Concept Development at the Chrysler Group, “Timely functional performance engineering for attributes like noise, vibration, durability and crash performance is one of the challenges we are tackling in our vehicle development process. With the help of LMS Virtual.Lab, which is specifically built for cross-disciplinary attribute engineering, we are able to better leverage our proven analytical tools to enhance the virtual design process.”
In addition, LMS Virtual.Lab will enable the Chrysler Group to speed up the virtual design process, improve the accuracy and quality of virtual prototype simulations and standardize the types of software being used for NVH, durability and impact simulations. The evolutionary rollout of LMS Virtual.Lab at the Chrysler Group will be a multi-year process, ultimately reaching across all of the company’s vehicle platforms and component teams.
“We are very excited about this strategic implementation of LMS Virtual.Lab,” Chairman and CEO Urbain Vandeurzen stated. “The Chrysler Group decision is another confirmation of our vision and strategy to combine the strengths of both physical and virtual prototyping to meet the growing demands made on the engineering community to optimize mission critical product attributes and brand values. Our commitment to radical product and process innovation and the superior integration that comes with LMS Virtual.Lab were important factors for LMS to be selected by the Chrysler Group as a strategic CAE partner.”
About LMS Virtual.Lab
LMS Virtual.Lab is the world’s first integrated software environment for the functional performance engineering of critical design attributes, such as noise and vibration, ride & handling, comfort, safety & durability. Fully associative, it automatically links to leading CAD and CAE tools, captures the process flow to better manage the analysis sequence, and enables engineers to refine their designs in virtual space not just at the component level - but also at the sub-assembly and full system level where most performance problems occur. By eliminating unnecessary file transfers, model and data redundancies, and automating the analysis process, LMS Virtual.Lab dramatically increases the time available for value-added engineering.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
