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Analysis in Action: The Value of Early Analysis
One of the driving forces in manufacturing companies is the continuing demand for reduction in product development time and cost to maintain profitability and competitiveness. Over the years, this requirement has prompted organizations in a wide range of industries to find different ways to make product development more efficient. Advancements in the entire spectrum of computer-aided design, manufacturing, and engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) tools in particular have automated many design, engineering, and analysis tasks to shorten development cycles, mostly as labor savings to minimize overhead costs.

Leveraging the Design Chain
In the product development process at most mid-sized and large companies, designs are defined in an engineering department and passed along in serial fashion (i.e., "thrown over the wall") to other design chain groups, each with an important perspective and insight into how the product should be configured. Manufacturing may find a faster, less costly way to fasten a housing to a frame, for example. Or marketing might want a more ergonomically contoured handle. Any suggested improvements or problems along the way send the design back to engineering.

Leveraging Simulation: The Design Innovation Process
In today's turbulent economy and brutal global markets, manufacturing companies are doing all they can to maintain their competitive edge by developing innovative designs. Products must stand apart from others, breaking new ground in performance, size, shape, capacity, durability, value or other attributes that compel consumers to select one product over another from a store shelf, or OEMs to do business with one supplier over another. In many cases, companies use design innovation to improve on existing products. Other times they create a whole new class of products and dominate a market segment as competitors scramble to catch up.

Putting Analysis to Work: Multiphysics Tools for MEMS
One of the hottest technology growth areas is microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), which also is called micromachines and microsystems in Asia and Europe. Made with semiconductor construction techniques, these devices have tiny parts measured in microns (millionths of a meter) and are frequently combined with integrated circuits on a single chip to provide built-in intelligence and signal processing. These small, intricate devices must perform accurately and reliably, often in the hostile environments of vehicles and industrial machines.

Rotordynamic Capabilities in ANSYS Mechanical
Useful features are available to study vibration behavior in rotating shafts, bearings, seals, out of balance systems, instability and condition monitoring.