Maximizing the ROI of your CAE Investment Making the Most of Your Investment 2/25/2010 PADT, Inc. Agenda • Introduction • Goals • People • Tools • Process • Recommendations • Thoughts CAE ROI 4/13/2010 2 Introductions Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies • PADT is an Engineering Services Company – Mechanical Engineering – 15 years of growth and happy customers – Any Industry – World Wide – Small to Large Companies • 3 Business Areas – CAE Sales & Services – Product Development – Rapid Prototyping & Manufacturing “We Bring Dimension to Your Ideas” CAE ROI 4/13/2010 4 ANSYS Sales, Technical Support & Training • Sales, Support and Training for Almost All ANSYS, Inc. Products – No Ansoft, yet… – No Offshore products • Sales & Support in Southwest – AZ, NM, CO, UT, NV, El Paso – Sales • Relationship based, highly technical, win-win – Support • By engineers for Engineers • Real world, beyond bugs/install issues • Training – Worldwide, your place or ours – Custom classes CAE ROI 4/13/2010 5 Simulation Services • World wide reputation for quality and speed • Any industry • “Over the Wall” or highly collaborative, customer choice • Experts in complete process • Most Physics – Stress – Heat Transfer – CFD – EMAG & Others The image part with relationship ID rId3 was not found in the file. CAE ROI 4/13/2010 6 Learn More about PADT • Visit www.PADTINC.com • Stop on by • Call 480 813-4884 • E-mail: [email protected] CAE ROI 4/13/2010 7 Your Presenter: Eric Miller • Co-Owner of PADT – Co-Manage the CAE & BusOps/Admin departments • ANSYS user since 1986 • Heavily involved in ANSYS software planning • Background in software development, CAD, simulation, and process improvement • BS in Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley CAE ROI 4/13/2010 8 First: Some Definitions • CAE: Computer Aided Engineering – Using computer software to conduct engineering calculation – Applies to most engineering disciplines: EE, ME, MfgE, MatSci, etc… – Simple (spreadsheet) to complex (molecular modeling) • CAE Tools – Software written to do engineering calculations – Commercial, self written, or open source – May be a general purpose tool used for engineering calculations • Cost – Total cost to a company in both short and long term – Money spent, time spent, time to market, reputation, overhead costs, etc… CAE ROI 4/13/2010 9 Why CAE • Fast and accurate calculations • Know more about your design, early in the development process • Two good reasons to use CAE – Reduce costs of physical prototyping – Increase the number of design iterations through use of virtual prototypes CAE ROI 4/13/2010 10