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Minimize Part Weight and Reduce Cost using Lightweight Engineering Solution

Lightweight engineering is performed on products, geometry and function. Designers must push past conventional ways of working to think outside the box. Meeting customer demands is imperative which means innovating one concept at a time is no longer a sustainable method.

CATIA Lightweight Engineering solution provides designers with the expert capabilities to minimize part weight, maximize stiffness, reduce cost and optimize material usage.

This solution seamlessly integrates design, simulation and analysis, upto manufacturing across all disciplines within the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. This allows parts to be refined, validated and completed collaboratively and in-context.

  • Optimize product weight and stiffness with lightweight engineering
  • Reduce time and cost by evaluating concepts faster
  • Evaluate more concepts while maintaining design specifications
  • Leverage real editable geometry for both conventional or additive manufacturing
  • Easily generate and simulate optimized concept shapes
  • Manage collaboration between Design, Simulation and Manufacturing Engineers seamlessly
  • Create exciting new products at a faster rate and lower cost
  • Ensuring compliance to reduce carbon emissions and providing alternatives to conventional materials
  • Integrated environment to increase productivity cognitive augmented design, simulation-driven design, reverse engineering, composite materials, hydro-formed sheet metal and stamping die

CATIA Lightweight Engineering

CATIA Lightweight Engineering provides designers with the expert capabilities to minimize part weight, maximize stiffness, reduce cost and optimize material usage. Designers must push past conventional ways of working to think outside the box. Innovating one concept at a time is no longer a sustainable method.

Let us have a closer look the various techniques that will help in finding the right balance in reducing weight, cost and material usage and maintaining or increasing strength, stability and safety.

  • Simulation Driven Design

    Simulation driven design optimizes structures to find the best shape possible by using simulation technology earlier in the design cycle. This empowers the design, with powerful knowledge and understanding of their ideas to apply earlier modifications and improvements.

  • Composite Materials

    Composite Materials are supported by this all-in-one solution, throughout the engineering and manufacturing process. Constraints are taken into account early in the design process for producibility checks, making it possible to define and export a complete and accurate process to the shop floor.

  • Hydroforming

    Hydroforming is a low-cost technology that shapes ductile metals such as aluminium and steel. CATIA provides feature- based modelling making it possible to design sheet metal representations in concurrent engineering.

  • Reverse Engineering

    Reverse Engineering connects digital and physical worlds by digitalising existing legacy products. A physical scan reconstructs the model at the right scale. The part can then be optimized and reworked to produce a lighter alternative.

  • Stamping Die

    The design of stamping die tools can be achieved using formability analysis, operations planning and geometric analysis. This results in high quality surfaces that are directly used for the Mold and Die manufacturing process.

  • Cognitive Augmented Design

    Cognitive Augmented Design is a revolutionary approach to generate and explore lightweight shapes. Designers begin with functional specifications such as geometrical context, targeted performance and constraints. Next, concept shapes are automatically generated using the functional specifications that can easily be structurally validated. Easily validate the structural behaviour of multiple concepts and perform trade-off studies to select the best concept.

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