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PHX ModelCenter
Improve competitiveness and reduce product development costs.
Enhance workflow automation. Integrate high fidelity CAE software. Accelerate multi-run trade studies. Wrap any command line based simulation intuitively.
Desktop Trade Studies
ModelCenter® 9.0 by Phoenix Integration is a graphical environment for process integration and design automation that supports your entire product development team. It allows you to lower cost and reduce product development time. With PHX ModelCenter, you can quickly create an engineering process and then explore the design space to find the best design. PHX ModelCenter is adaptable, and works well with groups whose design processes change frequently.
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New, Enhanced Capabilities
Design processes can involve diverse sets of in-house and commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) modeling and simulation tools that were not designed to communicate with each other—this makes them particularly difficult to automate. With the new Process Modeling Features in PHX ModelCenter you can graphically combine engineering analyses together with logic, looping, and branching constructs to create hierarchical and reusable flowchart-like engineering processes. Once created, these processes can be automated, and used to perform trade studies, answer “what-if” questions, reduce errors, and standardize and share common repeatable processes across the organization.
PHX ModelCenter’s CAE Solver Plug-In Suite allows users to quickly wrap high fidelity CAE software, perform detailed design optimization and validation, and conduct multiple trade studies efficiently and effectively. The integration of CAE solvers into PHX ModelCenter is performed using an intuitive visual environment and does not involve any tedious programming.
The powerful suite of design trade-off study tools offered in PHX ModelCenter perform parametric studies, Design of Experiments (DOE), Response Surface Modeling (RSM), gradient and non-gradient based optimization, and design results visualization. The recently enhanced RSM Toolkit 2.0 allows you to replace long running analyses with quick running approximate models (Response Surface Models), thus enabling faster multi-run trade studies such as optimization and Monte Carlo analysis.
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.
PROCESS MODELING
Create, save, execute, and share repeatable engineering processes.
PHX ModelCenter 9.0 allows you to graphically integrate analysis programs and automatically pass design parameters from one program to another. The sequence in which these programs are executed is data dependent, meaning that if any of the inputs to a program is changed, the program will automatically execute and refresh the output parameters. Key features include:
- Intuitive Flow Chart-Like Display. Use an intuitive drag-and-drop graphical user interface to combine engineering analysis tools with logic, looping, and branching statements to create repeatable, standards-based, flow-chart like engineering processes.
- Graphical Programming. Implement complex logic using inclusive and exclusive “If” statements, For loops, For-Each loops, and convergence loops.
- Workflow Automation. Once an engineering process is created, it can be executed automatically. Data is automatically transferred from one simulation to the next as the simulation runs—across the network if necessary. Use the flowchart view to graphically monitor execution progress as the process runs.
- Standard Processes. Save, share and reuse the engineering processes that you create across your organization.
- Hierarchical Construction. Combine existing PHX ModelCenter models and processes in a hierarchical manner to create more complex, higher level processes.
- Complements traditional data-dependent ModelCenter models. When creating a new ModelCenter model, users can choose to work in either the new process modeling mode or in the traditional data-dependency mode. Traditional data-dependent models can be embedded as sub-processes inside workflow processes.
CAE SOLVER PLUG-IN SUITE
Wrap high fidelity CAE solvers early in product development to find the best designs.
The CAE Solver Plug-In Suite available in PHX ModelCenter 9.0 allows users to wrap their favorite CAE solvers to perform multiple trade-off studies efficiently and effectively. The integration of CAE solvers into PHX ModelCenter is performed within an easy-to-use visual environment and does not require any tedious programming.
Custom interfaces are provided for a number of commercially available CAE software tools (such as Nastran®, Ansys®, ABAQUS® and LS-DYNA®). Once the CAE solver(s) are integrated into PHX ModelCenter, trade studies such as parametric evaluations, design of experiments (DOE), response surface modeling (RSM), and optimization studies can be performed to find the best design solutions. Key features include:
- Easy- to-Use Graphical Interface. Define the design parameters visually: CAE solver input/output files are parsed out graphically.
- Automatic Identification of Design Variables. Automatically identify key design variables and specify their bounds with solver-specific intelligence embedded in the graphical parser.
- Model Visualization. Visualize some FEA models in the workspace.
- Parsing API. Quickly wrap any analysis software that uses ASCII input and output files.
RSM TOOLKIT 2.0
Accelerate multi-run trade studies: Replace long running analyses with quick, accurate approximations.
The new RSMToolkit 2.0 allows users to replace long running analyses with quick running approximate models (response surface models) thus enabling faster multi-run trade studies such as optimization and Monte Carlo analysis. The user interface guides users the response surface creation process, allowing users to choose from traditional polynomial response surface models or the new and versatile Kriging models.
The new dashboard view allows users to assess the overall quality of a response surface model at a glance. Interactive graphical displays help users to visualize each of their response surface models and make a detailed assessment of their accuracy. Models generated using different algorithms (or different data sets) can be overlaid and compared side-by-side. The new model validation feature allows users to run ModelCenter to generate new data (for comparison purposes) at any point on the response surface model. Key features include:
- Kriging Models. Create accurate response surface models for nonlinear multimodalfunctions.
- Dashboard View. Quickly and easily assess the overall quality of your response surface models.
- Interactive Graphical Displays. Interactively visualize, evaluate and compare different response surface models
- Model Validation. Generate new data with PHX ModelCenter and validate your response surface models at any point in the design space.
QUICK WRAP 2.0
Quickly wrap any command line based simulation intuitively.
The Quick Wrap tool provides an intuitive point and click graphical user interface for quickly wrapping any command line based simulation. In most cases, input and output variables are specified by simply pointing and clicking on the variables in the input and output files with the mouse. Version 2.0 has been updated and enhanced to make it more robust and user friendly. Key features include:
- Enhanced Debugging. Run programs in the local folder and view run progress on the trace panel.
- Large File Support. Load, scroll and navigate through large files faster.
- Pattern Matching Engine. Gain support for various patterns for CAE input files, FORTRAN name-list, general name-value lists, and user-defined patterns.
- Easy-to-Use. Automatically highlight variables, control-click to select multiple ranges, and support for relative and absolute file paths.
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Visualize Complex, Multi-Dimensional Design Spaces. Easily Locate Best Designs to Meet Goals.
PHX ModelCenter® enables engineers to automate and integrate design codes and build complex parametric models of systems. When performing trade studies with these models, users sometimes face having to navigate large, complex design spaces using basic plotting tools. Searching for the best designs with optimization algorithms and communicating and justifying results to management less familiar with design optimization technology can be a difficult task. Includes:
- Variable Influence Profiler (VIP)
- Prediction Profiler (PP)
- Data Visualizer
Interpret Data. Communicate and Justify Your Results.
Accessible from PHX ModelCenter' s Data Explorer, the VisualizationPak enables visualizing multi-dimensional design spaces to easily locate best designs and present results in comprehensible HTML design reports.
Variable Sensitivity Analysis
- Visualize key global variable sensitivities-main effects and interaction effects-to focus on most influential variables
- Visualize local variable sensitivities
- Drag control panel's interactive sliders to easily and visually navigate design space in real time
- View key relationships and trends using advanced plotting options including glyph, star glyph, parallel coordinates, scatter, scatter matrix, histogram, and 2D histogram
Design Space Navigation/Optimization
- Change parameters, goals, and constraints on-the-fly
- Locate best designs for specified parameters, goals and constraints
- View Pareto Optimal designs
- Visually follow progress of optimization algorithms
- Visually guide search algorithm within design space
- Generate design comparison reports
BENEFITS
Intuitive, Interactive Design Exploration
- Visualizes copious data in "n" dimensions
- Enables surfing design space in real-time
- Shows real-time impact of design changes
- Increases understanding of trade offs and possibilities
- Improves and expedites design decisions
- Communicate and justify your results to management
"Design by Shopping" Optimization
- Allows design engineer to efficiently "shop" and compare all designs available
- Allows selection of best design after seeing all options
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Multidisciplinary design and analysis plays a vital role in the Phoenix solution. Once the components of your process are integrated, you can employ various design exploration tools to create an optimized design, run what-if trade studies or further inspect the design space to find the weaknesses in your Model. Additional optimization and probabilistic analysis tools provided by third party vendors.
Integrate CAD with ModelCenter analysis.
Phoenix Integration's CAD Fusion bridges the hand-off between Conceptual and Preliminary design, enabling your organization to:
- Introduce high-fidelity CAD/CAE tools earlier into the design process
- Integrate design geometry with trade study analysis
- Increase collaboration between Conceptual and Preliminary design teams
- Detect design problems sooner to reduce rework
- Enable expanded analysis of alternatives through automation of CAD models
Our CAD Fusion plug-ins interface PHX ModelCenter® with leading CAD applications, including Dassault CATIA, PTC® Pro/ENGINEER® and UGS® NX. Each plug-in, without end-user programming or scripting, automatically imports geometry from the CAD application. Designers use CAD variables such as volumes, surface areas, weights, CGs, etc. as variables in ModelCenter and view the impact on CAD geometry as variables are changed in ModelCenter. Geometry can be refreshed for each design iteration in ModelCenter and exported to other applications.
Convergence of Conceptual and Preliminary Design
With CAD Fusion, design teams share a common language for a more collaborative and efficient design process. Preliminary designers can provide early feedback to Conceptual designers to help avoid costly rework later in the design process. Conceptual designers give Preliminary designers a CAD model that already meets many of the design criteria, thus shortening the process.
Value-Added Design Capabilities
CAD Fusion increases the value of both ModelCenter and CAD applications in your organization with:
- Robust CAD automation: CAD tool crash workarounds; CAD memory leak workarounds
- Direct integration with CAD tools: No least common denominator translators; Access special features of each CAD tool; Export multiple file formats from each CAD program; Invoke CAD macros; Run CAD rule checking
- Extract variable units
- Compute commonly used parameters: Volume; Surface Area; Mass Properties
- Show or Hide CAD tool as needed
Specifications
Hardware Minimum
- 1GHz CPU
- 512MB RAM
- 1GB Hard disk space plus space for user data to run
- 800x600 video resolution
Hardware Recommended
- 2GHz Dual Core CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 1GB Hard disk space plus space for user data
- 1024x768 video resolution
Operating System
- MS Windows XP, MS Windows XP x64, MS Vista, MS Vista x64
Optional Software
- Microsoft Excel 97 or greater
- Mathcad 2000i or greater
- Matlab
