The 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systemes is a business platform that provides organizations with a holistic, real-time vision of their business activity and ecosystem. It connects people, ideas, data, and solutions in a single collaborative environment empowering industries, from startups to large enterprises, to transform, produce and trade in entirely new ways. It provides access to multiple CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM applications, and many more on a single platform. This is an entirely scalable platform in multiple dimensions. It is available on the premise & the cloud. It has a unified user interface so that users with knowledge of one module can learn and adopt other modules with less effort in adoption and the learning curve. It Improves Overall Product Design and Development Processes.

1. It helps in real-time concurrent engineering- Several designers from multiple locations can collaborate & design simultaneously on the same data. There is no need for an intermediate release or version. Parallel design tasks are possible. It enables real-time collaboration for design work and shortens the design cycle time.
2. Dashboarding capability for social collaboration – Helps to manage projects, variants, design changes, share ideas and concepts with 3Dswim communities. It enables to organize unstructured information in structured way.
3. Easy on cloud platform management – No more complex IT tasks to manage Project, People & Data. It is a simple client software installation and is very easy to invite new collaborators to engage in the platform.
4. Large Assembly management – Multiple options for large data management. It has capacity to manage large and multi-site data connecting multiple contributors and reviewers.
5. 3D Search capability – Enhanced 3D Search capabilities for fast data searching. There are options for multiple bounding box queries and capability for large and multisite data search.
6. Real time Visualization & Ambient Occlusion – CATIA 3DEXPERIENCE delivers natively high-end visualization. There is need for only fewer physical prototypes. It enables team reviews for accurate decisions. It offers advanced level of shadow rendering for high quality visualization. This ensure better design as it is closer to reality.
7. Parallel Design and session refresh- Update CATIA session dynamically to reflect concurrent changes in 3D.
8. Natural Shape – Create or edit any geometry rapidly without the need to know the original part structure. The group of elements will behave as features. There is capability to edit directly imported IGES or STEP geometry. The natural modeling editor enables early prototyping of ideas.
9. 3D Text Creation – Ability to create text in 3D, which was not possible in V5. The new feature also enables creation of associative 3D sketch of complex shapes. These help to create lifelike 3D Mechanical Design in 3D for engraving and embossing.
10. Natural Assembly – Navigate & edit your product structure in 3D, create products & subproducts, Rearrange the structure, Insert & position components, automatically create engineering connections with smart positioning, reuse assembly definition to create kinematic mechanisms.
11. Kinematic Mechanisms in Assembly – Engineering connections can be created from assembly constraints, define the kinematic behavior while defining assembly, joints are maintained when the components are moved in product structure, engineering connections leverage the PLM integration, fastening, interference checking, FEA. It is possible to define kinematics with multi-level mechanisms.
12. 3D Pattern Definition – Ability to pattern in 3D Assembly components. It enables to define complex 3D patterns from set of axis systems. The 3D pattern includes assembly feature impact and covers canonical shapes- linear, circular, rectangular.  
13. Dynamic experience of mechanical products – Perform physically accurate simulations with forces, inertia and gravity. Contacts can be created with restitution/friction parameters.

 

 

A few years back, if you had to travel from point A to point B and had never been to that area, you had to depend on the local people for directions. A few would know the exact direction. Depending on how busy they were, they directed you to your required destination. Sometimes they may also misguide you. You might have also traveled to a remote area where no one is around to help get the direction. What would you have done in such a scenario? Fortunately, remote sensing and GIS have come up with innovative techniques and methodologies that have enabled us not only to pinpoint your location but also to find the best route to your required location. This is just one example of the use of GIS technology. GIS now helps us to manage our day-to-day activities, and we are totally dependent on it. Did this happen overnight? No. Like other technologies, GIS also had its evolution. Academic institutes and governments first started using computer aided system to create and analyze geographical datasets. Progressively people got involved in data creation, analysis, and software development. Numerous geographers, planners, computer scientists, and others from many fields came together to create the first visualization and spatial analysis software. ESRI, one of the well-known companies, was established in 1969 to help land use planners and land resource managers to make informed decisions. GIS has come a long way since it was first used in the 1960s.

Today, GIS technology is used in various industries for decision making. ESRI is one of the largest and oldest companies which is providing end to end GIS solutions for industries viz Mining, Retail, Agriculture, Architecture, Engineering, and Construction, Asset Management, Financial Services, Insurance, Logistics and Distribution, Real Estate, Utilities, Aviation, Natural Resources, Forestry, Petroleum, Renewables, Telecommunications, Transportation etc.

Though multiple open-source GIS software exists, ESRI provides users with the most advanced, user-friendly GIS platforms. Due to its simplicity, learning ArcGIS is very quick. In contrast, open-source software takes a lot of time to understand processes. ArcGIS allows you to understand your data more intuitively. Various important spatial datasets are made available through the living atlas and Indo-ArcGIS. These datasets are not readily available anywhere else. One can easily import these datasets into ArcGIS platforms for desired analysis.

ArcGIS also has various readily available robust tools that do not need separate installations (plugins). ArcGIS model builder allows building models to reduce the processing time for iterative processes. ArcGIS provides Arc Scene and Arc Globe for 3D visualization and data processing. One can easily import data from ArcMap to Arc Scene on the fly. It is easy to create and share maps through ArcGIS online. Even previously created maps in ArcMap can be published as web maps through ArcGIS online. Using these maps, one can also create story maps. We can narrate the story using text, maps, and multimedia, making it attractive and easily understood by the audience.

ArcGIS provides industry specific robust geoprocessing tools for fast and easy analysis. Using a business analyst tool, a retail company can easily find locations of their potential customers, check market penetration, and focus on expansion in that area. Using image processing tools such as change detection, one can find the pixel level changes or the Matic changes in Land Use Land Cover in a few clicks. This tool provides statistics such as the conversion from one class to another or several other specified classes. These tools are very user friendly and intuitive, so a new user can use them without much guidance.

Meanwhile, ESRI provides self-paced web-based training for beginners and experts. ESRI offers in-depth documentation on how to use tools and delivers sample data for you to get hands-on experience. The training and software updates for open-source software are often not structured well.

ESRI provides end-to-end solutions. For example, it provides platforms for data collection, manipulation, and presentations. These apps/tools are interlinked and updated in live. Hence, as soon as data is updated by field staff using Field collector or Survey123, it gets updated on online maps. The data can also be published in dashboards, story maps, and even ArcGIS hub (where you can create your websites).

As soon as you install a particular solution, all the relevant tools and apps get installed in your system, which you can customize and deploy for your stakeholders. ESRI also provide APIs and SDKs for customization so organizations can develop the ESRI software/apps as per their own need.

A few of the app needs installation on a laptop/desktop. While ESRI cloud platforms such as ArcGIS online, Site Scan, ArcGIS velocity, etc. do not require installation, users can sign in and use these platforms from any computer system. ArcGIS Online is a Cloud-based software to create and share interactive web maps. Site Scan for ArcGIS is the end-to-end cloud-based drone mapping software designed to revolutionize imagery data collection, processing, and analysis. ArcGIS velocity enables users to ingest data from the Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, message brokers, or third-party APIs. It also helps users process, visualize, and analyze real-time data feeds; store these as big data, and perform fast queries and analyses.

ArcGIS Business Analyst extension helps you make smarter decisions for market planning, site selection, and customer segmentation by combining demographic, business, lifestyle, spending, and census data with map-based analytics. Business Analyst helps you identify underperforming markets, pinpoint the suitable growth sites, find where your target customers live, and share the analysis across your organization as accurate infographic reports and dynamic presentations.

ArcGIS CityEngine is a stand-alone software product that provides a design and modeling solution for efficiently creating 3D cities.

To know more about upcoming GIS technologies and to understand how to use ESRI platforms for your business, please get in touch with us at edst@edstechnologies.com

ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) technology is gaining traction across the globe as we look forward to Highly Automated Vehicles (Hands Off, Eyes Off – Conditional Automation & Hands Off, Mind Off – High Automation) and Autonomous Vehicles (Driver Off) with respect to Transportation and Mobility.

Several experiments are going on in the space of UAV, UGV, UUV and USV to bring a new era in the field of Autonomous Vehicles. There are several challenges to address the Automated Vehicle solutions with respect to traffic jams, auto pilot, highway auto pilot, urban auto pilot, self-driving. Some of them are listed below:

• How to sense the environment?

1. Which sensor to be selected keeping in mind the safety and cost factors?
2. Positioning of sensors impacting the weather conditions

• Communication between Humans and Machines
• Integration of Electrical/Electronic Architecture by making Vehicle centralization requires Big Data from sensors and cloud
• Adaption of Vehicle Charging and its infrastructure
• Remote Control of the Autonomous Vehicle
• Collision avoidance with other Smart Systems
• Safety alerts for pedestrians
• Alerts for real time traffic, road conditions and so on…

Most of the companies are looking for an integrated platform to manage the entire data namely Mechanical, Fluid, Electrical and Electronics with a Model Based Approach.

To address the above challenges, Dassault Systèmes has come up with a solution on how the Systems of Systems, Cyber Physical Systems and its Sub Systems can be integrated.

To manage the entire Systems, System of Systems and its Sub Systems, there should be a seamless integration. 3DEXPERINCE platform from Dassault Systèmes not only addresses the challenges of integration, it also addresses the Real time Monitoring challenge by having a Virtual Twin of an entire Assembly of a Vehicle or an Aircraft or complete Factory as well.

It eases the workflow to have a First-Time Right-Information along with possibility of successful Technologies to validate virtually with respect to Model Based Systems Engineering.

The below picture indicates how detailed up stream and downstream thinking processes take place from OEM to suppliers and the different disciplines involved from different domains which needs to communicate with each other.

For any autonomous vehicle, camera, radar, sonar and lidar are essential which SENSE the environment through SENSORS and process the data through Software Applications like Apps, BSW, OS. Computing & Load Balancing are done through Processors, ECU’s, GPU’s which will COMMUNICATE with Humans and Machines through Communication Protocols & Cyber Security (Cables & Wires, Wireless Communication) and Human Machine Interface (Head Up Display, Voice, LED’s) which Act (Power, Move, Sound, Heat, Cool) using Actuators (Mechatronic Parts) and Power Management (Power & Battery).

The above process consists of lots of sensor-based applications, software applications, mechatronics applications which needs to communicate very strongly in the R&D Phase of any product and it is very critical to have a virtual testing before moving to real testing so as to achieve the “right” design for the first time.

The validation and digitilization of some areas are very critical as they play a major role in the emerging technologies:

1. As electronics is transforming the automotive experience, it is always important to manage the electronics signal & power integrity workflow to be maintained digitally by capturing the requirement, schematic capture/ component placement, circuit simulation, pre-layout simulation SI/PI, post layout simulations after importing, EMC compliance check.

As the compliance for any new emerging technologies will play a key role, Dassault Systèmes through 3DEXPERIENCE Platform is offering Industry Process Experiences to address these challenges.

1. There is a need to have a full traceability for all the functional, logical, physical requirements with respect to validation, testing and communication for which performance driven architecture process available in 3DEXPERIENCE will help to streamline the processes.

• EV technology poses lots of challenges to the R&D department to prove the concepts. This requires complete behavior modelling and multi-scale/multi physics simulations of aerodynamics, structure, ride & handling. These can be validated using 3DEXPERIENCE On Cloud solutions from Dassault Systèmes.

1. ADAS/AV sensor design & placement virtual validation is very important as all the modern cars come with complex electronic systems on four wheels. OEMs (and suppliers) are responsible for compliance/ electromagnetic compatibility, reliability, safety and comfort which 3DEXPERIENCE Platform provides by having a digitalized workflow of sensor modelling with antenna array design, EMAG field simulations, soil performance simulations and so on.
2. Vehicle antenna design displacement plays a vital role in ADAS technology to find the optimized antenna placement and vehicle shapes based on KPI’s.
3. There is a possibility of validating the design and get experienced in immersive environment through VR for the design reviews through the 3DEXPERIENCE platform.

 

With the automotive industry shifting gears to autonomous vehicles and many start-ups venturing into this segment, EDST is proud to have played a significant role in business transformations with proven industry solutions and applications. To experience the seamless integration with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, do contact our consultants at marketing@edstechnologies.com