For Donaldson, LMS products provide the best platform they’ve seen for their functional engineering and performance refinement needs. What’s more, LMS responds to Donaldson’s priority of establishing and conserving in one desktop, an improved and shorter development process centered on the functional performance of their exhaust systems.
Initial contacts between LMS Engineering Services and Donaldson centered on establishing a process for durability analysis using multibody simulations and test data. These talks led to a joint exploratory project undertaken in August of last year. The project engineers studied fatigue analysis of a heavy truck exhaust system, including the damage accumulation on the seam welds, using hybrid simulations of the components and correlated test data. The project resulted in proving to Donaldson the accuracy and practicality of digital simulation of physical test events using LMS software for test and virtual prototyping. As a result, Donaldson has purchased LMS DADS (multibody simulation) and LMS FALANCS (durability simulation), along with an upgrade to LMS Virtual.Lab for 2002.
Why did Donaldson choose LMS Virtual.Lab? The greatest difficulty at Donaldson, prior to the arrival of Virtual.Lab, was the number of transfers between programs required to get from the starting point of a model to applying test data to the components. Using LMS technology, the test data was methodically applied and correctly correlated to digital models, enabling accurate predictions of lifetime and stress points of the components and systems. They used multibody simulations of the behavior of their exhaust systems in a dynamic event – correlated FE models to the test data in LMS GATEWAY, used the flexible models to get more accurate calculations of the loads; then ran these models in LMS FALANCS for the durability analysis.
Donaldson values the process control and functional performance insight that LMS technology provides, resulting in improved designs that are lighter and more durable – and less costly. Before having an accurate analysis of functional performance of their systems, Donaldson, like many other manufacturers, couldn’t have full confidence in the designs, so they would err on the side of caution, and overdesign. This leads to more weight, which is an issue even on heavy equipment, and therefore to increased cost. LMS systems will allow Donaldson to avoid that type of design error, and allow them to spend more time on value-added engineering.
About Donaldson Company, Inc.
Donaldson Company, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., is a leading worldwide provider of filtration exhaust systems and replacement parts. Founded in 1915, Donaldson is a technology-driven company committed to satisfying customer needs for filtration solutions through innovative research and development. Donaldson serves customers in the industrial and engine markets including dust collection, power generation, specialty filtration, off-road equipment and trucks. More than 8,200 employees contribute to the company’s success at 40 manufacturing locations around the world. In fiscal year 2001, Donaldson reported record sales of more than $1.1 billion and achieved its 12th consecutive year of double-digit earnings growth. Donaldson is a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index and Donaldson shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DCI. Additional company information is available at www.donaldson.com.
About LMS Virtual.Lab
LMS Virtual.Lab is the world’s first integrated software environment for the functional performance engineering of critical design attributes, such as noise and vibration, ride & handling, comfort, safety & durability. Fully associative, it automatically links to leading CAD and CAE tools, captures the process flow to better manage the analysis sequence, and enables engineers to refine their designs in virtual space not just at the component level – but also at the sub-assembly and full system level where most performance problems occur. By eliminating unnecessary file transfers, model and data redundancies, and automating the analysis process, LMS Virtual.Lab dramatically increases the time available for value-added engineering.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
Initial contacts between LMS Engineering Services and Donaldson centered on establishing a process for durability analysis using multibody simulations and test data. These talks led to a joint exploratory project undertaken in August of last year. The project engineers studied fatigue analysis of a heavy truck exhaust system, including the damage accumulation on the seam welds, using hybrid simulations of the components and correlated test data. The project resulted in proving to Donaldson the accuracy and practicality of digital simulation of physical test events using LMS software for test and virtual prototyping. As a result, Donaldson has purchased LMS DADS (multibody simulation) and LMS FALANCS (durability simulation), along with an upgrade to LMS Virtual.Lab for 2002.
Why did Donaldson choose LMS Virtual.Lab? The greatest difficulty at Donaldson, prior to the arrival of Virtual.Lab, was the number of transfers between programs required to get from the starting point of a model to applying test data to the components. Using LMS technology, the test data was methodically applied and correctly correlated to digital models, enabling accurate predictions of lifetime and stress points of the components and systems. They used multibody simulations of the behavior of their exhaust systems in a dynamic event – correlated FE models to the test data in LMS GATEWAY, used the flexible models to get more accurate calculations of the loads; then ran these models in LMS FALANCS for the durability analysis.
Donaldson values the process control and functional performance insight that LMS technology provides, resulting in improved designs that are lighter and more durable – and less costly. Before having an accurate analysis of functional performance of their systems, Donaldson, like many other manufacturers, couldn’t have full confidence in the designs, so they would err on the side of caution, and overdesign. This leads to more weight, which is an issue even on heavy equipment, and therefore to increased cost. LMS systems will allow Donaldson to avoid that type of design error, and allow them to spend more time on value-added engineering.
About Donaldson Company, Inc.
Donaldson Company, Inc., headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., is a leading worldwide provider of filtration exhaust systems and replacement parts. Founded in 1915, Donaldson is a technology-driven company committed to satisfying customer needs for filtration solutions through innovative research and development. Donaldson serves customers in the industrial and engine markets including dust collection, power generation, specialty filtration, off-road equipment and trucks. More than 8,200 employees contribute to the company’s success at 40 manufacturing locations around the world. In fiscal year 2001, Donaldson reported record sales of more than $1.1 billion and achieved its 12th consecutive year of double-digit earnings growth. Donaldson is a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index and Donaldson shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DCI. Additional company information is available at www.donaldson.com.
About LMS Virtual.Lab
LMS Virtual.Lab is the world’s first integrated software environment for the functional performance engineering of critical design attributes, such as noise and vibration, ride & handling, comfort, safety & durability. Fully associative, it automatically links to leading CAD and CAE tools, captures the process flow to better manage the analysis sequence, and enables engineers to refine their designs in virtual space not just at the component level – but also at the sub-assembly and full system level where most performance problems occur. By eliminating unnecessary file transfers, model and data redundancies, and automating the analysis process, LMS Virtual.Lab dramatically increases the time available for value-added engineering.
About LMS International
LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world.
