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Desktop Trade Studies

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.

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.

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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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.

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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