SYSWELD
Welding & Assembly Simulation Software
Higher efficiency & repeatability, increased quality & safety, and shorter development cycle time with a lower cost are key driving factors in modern welding & assembly body shops of manufacturing industries. Product designers, manufacturing process planners, and welding engineers must secure the above mentioned KPIs. Moreover, industries are shifting to lightweight materials such as high-strength steels and aluminum, which pose additional challenges during designing and validation phases as these advanced materials are harder to work with due to high spring back and require precise heat control. Like with every industry, competition is fierce, so industries do not have time to test different welding & assembly designs or approaches and have very little room for error – it’s very much a ‘get it right the first time’ mentality.
What is SYSWELD Welding Simulation?
ESI SYSWELD, a result of 30+ years of continuous engagement with major global industrial partners, is an innovative solution that offers a unique and comprehensive virtual assessment of material characteristics, microstructure, residual stresses and distortions in welded structures and assemblies. SYSWELD software addresses different welding processes (arc, electron beam, laser and spot welding) and heat treatment processes (carburizing, carbonitriding, and quenching) and considers all relevant phenomena (chemical, thermal, metallurgical and mechanical).
With all of this, SYSWELD welding simulation software allows engineers to be as productive as possible by building physically realistic virtual structures in the development phase to ensure improvement in the quality and performance of the manufactured products. Moreover, by coupling different manufacturing processes, our customers can simulate various process chains with upstream and downstream welding processes for design & upfront process feasibility evaluations and detailed validation to ensure cost-efficient product and production planning and drive increased profitability and margins.
Benefits of SYSWELD
- Minimizes the time and cost to market by shorting product development cycle
- Reducing the need for physical prototyping
- Controlling and optimizing material characteristics, joining process and weld quality
- Keeping distortions within specified tolerances
- Enhancing product performance and overall service life of welded structure
We achieved very good results thanks to the accuracy of the simulation [and...] were able to [...] evaluate the die compensation, despite the complexity of such a case with three different thicknesses and two weld lines.
EDUARDO SULATO & FÁBIO LICHTENTHÄLERGESTAMP
ESI SYSWELD enables the designers and process planners to virtually manufacture, assemble, and test physically realistic virtual assemblies, long before their hardware prototypes are manufactured. You can now ensure the dimensional accuracies (geometrical quality) of hot and cold joined assemblies by accounting for the mechanical load effects during successive assembly processes, and heat effects induced by welding. You can:
- Manage tolerances at various levels from planning to fabrication validation
- Avoid distortions due to gap closing and effects of hot and cold joining processes
- Decide the type, location, sequence, forces of the clamps
- Identify the influence of gaps and joining process on the assembly distortion
- Control distortions by weld sequence optimization
Welding & Assembly simulation minimizes the cost throughout different phases of product development, such as designing, manufacturing planning, try-out, and fabrication validation. ESI SYSWELD is the most accurate Finite Element Analysis (FEA) multi-physics software on the market to simulate thermal joining (arc, electron beam, laser, friction stir, spot welding). By accounting for all relevant manufacturing effects and enabling the transport of simulation results from one manufacturing step to the next, SYSWELD delivers a truly predictive end-to-end solution for the manufacturing of welded and assembled industrial parts.
Your Benefits:
- Develop and optimize a welding plan in a short time frame
- Work with all industrial structural steel, aluminum, complex materials, or dissimilar metals
- Secure process feasibility, security with lower cost, and cycle time
- Keep welding distortions within allowable tolerances
- Control high residual stresses in the welding structures for quality assessment
- Improve crash and fatigue performance of the product
SYSWELD addresses heat treatment processes (Carburizing, Carbonitriding, and Quenching, etc.) and considers all thermal, metallurgical, and mechanical phenomena.
Your Benefits :
- Avoid component distortion and high material hardness during or after heat treatment
- Obtain correct material strength, toughness, and hardness
- Ensure high wear resistance of the contacting surfaces
- Achieve the required distribution of residual stresses