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PHX ModelCenter® is a visual environment for process integration to support your entire design team. With PHX ModelCenter, you can quickly create an engineering process and then perform complex design exploration techniques to find the best design. PHX ModelCenter is adaptable, and works well with groups whose design processes change frequently.

PHX ModelCenter automates the process of running the hundreds of design programs you use during a typical design project. Using PHX ModelCenter, design data is automatically passed from one program to another, freeing you to concentrate on the results of the design and not the drudgery of running individual programs.

PHX ModelCenter allows you to easily construct your design process as a series of linked applications with a simple interface. You can connect to your applications that are wrapped with the Analysis Server to build the process. Once completed, you will have organized analysis models, digitally mapped design procedures, and complete control over all of your product information.

Benefits

Better Designs
PHX ModelCenter gives you powerful tools to inspect designs and find weaknesses. Correcting these weaknesses early in the design process can save corporations millions. Trade studies within PHX ModelCenter help you and your team find optimal solutions with lower weight, higher performance, and more robustness in the design.

Reduces Errors
Manual data translation and linking is costly and error-prone. Automating this step in the design process helps reduce mistakes.

Saves Time
PHX ModelCenter eliminates the manual transfer of data between applications, thereby reducing design cycle time. With that "extra" time, you can evaluate more design alternatives which results in a better final product.

Cohesive Team Environment
Your team of engineers can use PHX ModelCenter to coordinate data and share design applications over a network of computers. Design data that used to be sent via fax, email, or ftp can now be linked automatically through PHX ModelCenter.

Easy to Deploy
PHX ModelCenter integrates seamlessly with existing applications used by your entire team.

Features

Visual Process Integration
Using PHX ModelCenter, you graphically create a workflow of your applications by simply dragging and dropping applications from the Analysis Server. Information is linked as you create a dynamic sequence of tasks between each application. PHX ModelCenter's powerful scheduling algorithm is the engine that automates all of the tasks.

Design Exploration
Once your applications are linked, you can run multiple trade studies with your in-house algorithms or the tools already integrated within PHX ModelCenter.

PHX ModelCenter's design exploration tools include:

• Parametric Studies
• Optimization
• Response Surface Modeling
• Design of Experiments
• Carpet Plots
• Probabilistics

The following third-party design exploration software is also available:

• Vanderplaats' DOT Optimizer
• SpaceWorks Engineering's OptWorks
• SpaceWorks Engineering's ProbWork
• Boeing's Design Explorer

Once you have performed a trade study on your Model, you can collect tables of data and plot various input and output values. Multiple graphs can be created and exported to other documents to easily create reports. In addition, your trade study results can be saved into a PHX ModelCenter Project directory to keep a record of design changes. Learn more about Design Optimization

Plug-In Toolkit
The Plug-In Toolkit helps to directly incorporate your in-house trade study algorithms within ModelCenter. This customization capability allows you to select the most appropriate trade study algorithm for your problem on a case-by-case basis.

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