Intelligent Performance Engineering: Closed-loop validation

In an age of unprecedented technological change in the industrial machine industry, machines are becoming more complex, creating new challenges for designers and engineers. End customer demand for highly differentiated and customized products is driving OEM requirements for customized machines. To ensure today’s modern, complex machines meet all their specifications, machine builders need to rely on simulation early and often during the design and verification process. However, at some point, it’s important to correlate the accuracy of these simulations to real-world machine operation in the actual physical environment. Through a closed-loop validation process, Intelligent Performance Engineering provides the ability to verify simulation through real-time feedback from sensor-based machine data.

Siemens Digital Industries Software’s Intelligent Performance Engineering (IPE) solution addresses this complexity, using the following disciplines: Multi-physics simulation, integrated design and simulation and a closed-loop validation. Multiphysics simulation balances multi-attribute engineering to deliver a broad range of physics and disciplines under one umbrella. Integrated design and simulation allow designers and simulation engineers to use the same model in one system to drive innovation and boost productivity through simulation. The closed-loop validation process confirms simulations by capturing and testing the relationship between requirements, functional layout, logical implementation and physical implementation.