Under pressure to reach ever-increasing performance levels, most industrial products use integrated controls and are becoming mechatronic systems. Managing the inherent complexity of these systems requires mastering their multi-domain dynamic behavior, making system simulation software a requirement. The mandatory association of mechanical and controls design cycles leads to a deep transformation of the processes and the new challenge of engineering knowledge management.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab

LMS Imagine.Lab is the ideal solution to drive virtual, intelligent system design throughout the design cycle. Our mechatronic simulation software offers all of the necessary modeling and analysis tools and structured and collaborative methods to run the most complex multi-domain simulations. The latest developments in LMS Imagine.Lab make it a solid choice for model-based systems engineering. Geared toward mechatronic simulation, the LMS Imagine.Lab platform offers you an open development approach starting from functional requirements to physical modeling and simulation.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim
With LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim you can create and run multi-domain simulation models to analyze complex system behavior and support the design of controlled systems from early specification to subsystem testing.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab Sysdm
LMS Imagine.Lab Sysdm is the ideal solution to store and organize system mechanical and controls models and data across your organization.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab System Synthesis
LMS Imagine.Lab System Synthesis enables you to synthesize complex systems and create product architectures based on performance requirements.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab Argonne/Autonomie
LMS Imagine.Argonne/Autonomie is a framework for automotive control design, simulation and analysis based on the Matlab© software environment.

LMS Imagine.Lab offers dedicated solutions and model libraries to support automotive and ground vehicles manufacturers and suppliers in designing robust, reliable and environmentally friendly systems. These automotive solutions also assess the global vehicle dynamic performance in terms of fuel economy, drivability and safety at the early design stages.

 >  Vehicle Integration and Multi-attribute Balancing
LMS Imagine.Lab remedies the problem of integrating green engineering into your current development process while continuing to improve car drivability and performance. These vehicle solutions integrate into the existing vehicle development process and combine mechanical, thermal, electrical and control engineering in one software environment.

 >  Powertrain Transmission
The Imagine.Lab solutions for powertrain transmissions provide a generic platform for analyzing and designing optimal transmission systems. LMS Imagine.Lab Powertrain Transmission gives you access to driveline, engine and transmission models and components and focuses on comfort, performance, losses and noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) issues.

 >  Internal Combustion Engine
Developed in collaboration with IFPEN, LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for internal combustion engines helps you model and design comprehensive engine systems – from air management and combustion to engine control – by providing accurate physical engine models and components.

 >  Vehicle System Dynamics
The LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for vehicle system dynamics offer dedicated capabilities to design individual chassis system components (such as brakes, suspension, steering and anti-roll systems) and integrate them in a single system model to simulate and validate global chassis control strategies.

 >  Vehicle Thermal Management
The LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for vehicle thermal management provide dedicated tools to build and analyze complete vehicle thermal management models in a single environment. The thermal solutions let you model, size and analyze components, subsystems, subsystem interaction as well as run steady-state and real transient multi-domain simulations.

 >  Electrical Systems
The LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for electrical systems help you define straightforward strategies throughout the design process of electrical and electromechanical systems. Mechatronic system engineering is a key development concern due to the increased use of electrical and electronic systems.

The LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for aerospace systems enable you to ensure a safer and more reliable design of physical systems while shortening the time-to-market by empowering a real integration of physical systems with their controls. Providing a market-leading, multi-domain simulation environment, the aerospace solutions offer an open approach to mechatronic system simulation – from functional requirements to detailed design.

 >  Landing Gear
LMS Imagine.Lab Landing Gear delivers tools to assess the whole landing gear system – performance analysis over all of its required functionalities: landing, extension and retraction, braking and steering systems. The landing gear solution supports the multi-domain nature of the task (such as hydraulics, electrics and thermal) and takes into account system structure/actuator coupling. The landing gear simulation solution also addresses the challenges posed by physical tests and maintenance costs reduction, sophisticated technologies and materials, and safety and certification requirements.

 >  Flight Controls Actuations
LMS Imagine.Lab Flight Controls Actuations support the design and optimization of high lift devices actuation systems by using an unparalleled multi-domain system simulation approach. The flight controls actuations solution easily handles the combination of hydraulics, 2D mechanics and electrics in a unique modeling environment.

 >  Aerospace Engine Equipment
The LMS Imagine.Lab Aerospace Engine Equipment solution supports the design and industrialization of fuel systems (such as metering units, pumps, nozzle, starters and heat exchangers) and their controls as well as engine control actuators. The aerospace engine equipment solution helps you design market-specific pressure-feed fluid systems in aircraft engines and build reliable thermal-hydraulic systems.

 >  Environmental Control Systems
The LMS Imagine.Lab Environmental Control Systems solution helps you design the optimal environmental control system that makes air breathable and comfortable in terms of pressure, temperature, flow and humidity. Application areas include crew and passenger comfort optimization in vehicles such as aircrafts, ships, submarines, trains and battle tanks. The environmental control systems solution is based on the LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim multi-domain system simulation approach to design advanced systems: gas dynamic, thermal pneumatics, vapor cycle (two-phase flow), air conditioning, controls, and life and environmental sciences.

 >  Aircraft Engine
The LMS Imagine.Lab Aircraft Engine solution defines the exact boundary condition for aircraft systems such as electrical power generation, bleed system, fuel system and flight dynamics. Using the aircraft engine simulation solution, you can assess the dynamic behavior of any kind of jet engine and get a first evaluation of the engine performance.

 >  Aircraft Fuel Systems
The LMS Imagine.Lab Aircraft Fuel Systems solution helps you design the complete aircraft fuel system in terms of pressure, temperature, flow transfer and ullage composition tracking. Application areas include the thermal behavior of the fuel system.

 >  Electrical Aircraft
The LMS Imagine.Lab Electrical Aircraft solution helps you design the electrical network of any aircraft. Relying on the electrical libraries (such as electric motors and drives, electromechanical, electric basics and converters and aircraft electrics), the electrical aircraft solution is the perfect solution for you to face the new challenges of the more electrical aircraft.

Mechanical industries are facing the growing complexity of systems. LMS Imagine.Lab solutions for mechanical industries include generic packages that complement the application-oriented offer. The mechatronic system solutions enable you to design hydraulic and pneumatic components as well as complex systems and networks that can be submitted to thermal exchange, phase changes or contain gas mixtures. You can address a larger set of applications outside the traditional automotive and aerospace industries and access a very flexible, innovative way to design robust thermofluids systems and components.

 >  Hydraulic Simulation
The LMS Imagine.Lab Hydraulic Simulation solution helps you efficiently develop new hydraulic systems design concepts, including networks and components. Because of a very large collection of hydraulic components (such as pumps, valves and actuators) and piping parts (such as pipes and fittings), the hydraulic simulation solution allows you to find the right answers for the optimal development of complex hydraulic systems.

 >  Pneumatics
The LMS Imagine.Lab Pneumatics solution helps you efficiently develop new pneumatic systems design concepts for networks, components and thermal exchange. Because of a very large collection of pneumatic components (such as compressors, valves and actuators) and CFD1D piping, the solution for pneumatics allows you to find out the right answers for the optimal development of complex systems.

 >  Gas Mixtures
The LMS Imagine.Lab Gas Mixtures simulation solution offers a large set of pneumatic components and moist air models; this combination allows you to model various systems using gas mixtures with up to 20 species. In pneumatic systems where gas mixture composition along a circuit is an issue, it is necessary to use gas mixtures components.

 >  Thermal-Hydraulics
The LMS Imagine.Lab Thermal-Hydraulic simulation solution helps you efficiently develop new hydraulic systems and networks design concepts. A very large collection of hydraulic components (such as pumps, valves, actuators, heat exchangers) allows you to find the right answers for the optimal development of complex hydraulic systems.

 >  Two-phase Flow Systems
The LMS Imagine.Lab Two-phase Flow solution enables you to model complex system networks where the fluid at some point is submitted to phase changes such as an air-conditioning systems, heat pump or Rankine cycle. The solution for two-phase flow is based on a basic element approach that allows you to model a maximum of two-phase flow network configurations from a minimum set of components.

 >  Mobile Hydraulics Actuation Systems
LMS Imagine.Lab Mobile Hydraulic Actuation System solution helps design fluid power actuation systems for crane, crawler, earthmoving and mining equipment, machine tools and more. This hydraulic actuation solution delivers the required insights to improve product quality, robustness and reliability, reduce power generation (such as variable displacement pumps and load sensing) and develop new functions (such as self-leveling and control strategies).

 >  Thermofluids Systems
The LMS Imagine.Lab Thermofluid System simulation solution is dedicated to the design of thermofluids systems and networks. This thermofluids solution helps you efficiently develop new design concepts for a wide range of applications. Based on the LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim multi-domain system simulation approach, this solution includes a dedicated set of tools and fluid libraries that handle multi-disciplinary systems for advanced design: liquid and gas dynamics, gas mixture with variable composition, thermal pneumatics, two-phase flow, air conditioning and cooling systems.

 >  Electromechanical Components
LMS Imagine.Lab Electromechanical Components helps simulate mechatronic systems for component specification, mechanical structure interaction, and control strategies design and validation. This solution for electromechanical components integrates two complementary approaches: description of the magnetic circuit using simple elements and the use of FEM tables. Strong coupling capabilities between electric, magnetic, mechanic models permit component specification and sizing.

 >  Electrical Systems
LMS Imagine.Lab Electrical Systems focuses on the electrical power network and global electrical power distribution for automotive and aerospace industries as well as power generation and distribution markets. This solution for electrical systems simulates the interaction of the electrical network and helps optimize dynamic performances, minimize energy consumption and study the impact of the electrical environment.

 >  Electric Storage Systems
LMS Imagine.Lab Electric Storage Systems solution accurately evaluates the energy exchanges of devices in variable environment conditions. Depending on those variations and the analysis to perform, the Electric Storage Systems solution enables you to model electric storage systems with various complexities and features. Representing their behavior is especially important in multi-domain systems to specify the power and energy needs, size a pack, design a corresponding cooling subsystem and validate related control systems.

LMS Imagine.Lab 14 provides a broad range of enhancements to ensure a smooth user experience through all phases of the design cycle. To help you design innovative products within a shorter timeline, LMS Imagine.Lab 14 comes with new multi-domain libraries, application-oriented solutions, an enhanced solver and numerical capabilities coupled with powerful analysis tools. We focused our development efforts on improving usability, efficiency and openness to accelerate model-based systems engineering and streamline collaborative work.

 >  LMS Imagine.Lab 14

LMS Virtual.Lab is an integrated suite of 3D FE and multibody simulation software which simulates and optimizes the performance of mechanical systems for structural integrity, noise and vibration, system dynamics and durability. Using the LMS Virtual.Lab suite, engineering teams can:

• Build accurate simulation models
• Simulate mechanical design behavior
• Quickly assess multiple design alternatives
• Optimize designs before prototype construction
• Accurately detect weak spots
• Efficiently explore multiple design alternatives

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab

In a competitive environment, customers set high requirements with respect to comfort and performance. With LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics and Vibration you can predict noise and vibration performance of the new design in an early design stage. The product design analysis helps you avoid noise or vibration problems, optimize sound for branding or performance and check if the design adheres to certain regulations or prescriptions.

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics
Do your customers expect quieter products? Are your competitors gaining ground using sound quality as a differentiator? Will tighter noise emission legislation impact your product sales? Would you like to decrease the time spent on basics such as predicting sound fields or shave off weeks on a more complex job such as engine runup?
In the past, parametric analysis and design refinement was not feasible because of cost and time constraints. The only option was to apply expensive techniques late in the development stage at the expense of design flexibility. Now you can use LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics tools to deal with these challenges.

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Noise and Vibration
While it is relatively easy to predict performance at the component level, most noise and vibration issues are only discovered at the full system level. Making extensive prediction models is a tedious and difficult process, one that does not necessarily produce results that match reality. How can you quickly and reliably synthesize system-level models? How can you accurately predict the most critical noise and vibration contributors and identify the best design modifications?

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Correlation
To guarantee realistic high fidelity simulations, it is essential that simulation models meet stringent accuracy standards. Ensuring reliable simulation results requires comparing component, subsystem and full system models with experimental data or validated models of similar structures. Building and validating system models from the bottom up is the only way to prevent accumulated inaccuracies. Besides more reliable what-if analyses, validated models provide a better understanding of assumptions regarding material properties, connections, joints and boundary conditions.

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Optimization
LMS Virtual.Lab Optimization offers integrated performance optimization technology across all LMS Virtual.Lab applications. It provides more insight into each design through design exploration – improving, optimizing and assessing the overall quality. LMS Virtual.Lab Optimization easily identifies the key parameters that have the most influence on the design specifications and optimizes the functional performance of products through parametric modification.

 >  Statistical Energy Analysis
Statistical Energy Analysis addresses mid to high frequency problems for full systems including vehicles, trucks, busses, trains, ships, aircrafts, satellites and more. The analysis technique simulates the vibro-acoustic energy flow between subsystems of the full system. Through this type of analysis, you can easily understand the cause of noise problems and take the most efficient approach to mitigate the issues.

In a competitive environment, there is no time for trial and error. A design has to be right the first time. Investigating and validating the functional performance of a new mechanic or mechatronic design through simulation is critical. LMS Mechanisms software allows you to investigate the kinematic behavior of systems – including flexible components and controllers – and to design optimally for durability performance.

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Motion
Manufacturers are pressured to deliver more complex products with increased quality in shorter development cycles. Engineering the performance of mechanical designs with traditional test-based development processes is no longer an option. The only valid alternative is evaluating functional performance attributes on a virtual prototype. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion enables engineers to effectively analyze and optimize real-life performance of mechanical and mechatronic systems – long before physical testing.

 >  LMS Virtual.Lab Durability
Undoubtedly the most challenging task for durability engineers is designing fail-safe components and systems in the most efficient manner. System parts with insufficient fatigue strength may cause permanent structural damage and potentially life-threatening situations. Mistakes can cause product recalls which negatively influence the overall brand image. Additionally, short design cycles, more design variants and increased usage of new lightweight materials increase the complexity of the durability engineering process.

Multi-solver FEA modeling and analysis

Through its seamless integration with Dassault Systèmes Catia® V5 and the open SIMULIA platform, LMS Virtual.Lab Structures offers a fully integrated or standalone FEA modeling preprocessing and postprocessing environment for linear, nonlinear and crash analysis.

LMS Virtual.Lab Structures includes component, subsystem and full vehicle modeling and assembly in all development cycle stages – from concept to detailed engineering. You can analyze component and assembly characteristics and behaviors within the same environment while remaining fully associated with the original CAD models.

The common toolset eliminates time consuming and error-prone file conversions and data translations, increases engineering productivity, improves the quality and consistency of analysis results and accelerates engineering iterations.

 >  FEA Pre/Post
LMS Virtual.Lab FEA Pre/Post is the standard configuration for simulation engineers performing linear, nonlinear and crash finite element analysis using industry standard solvers. The preprocessing and postprocessing configuration lets you import models or meshes from industry standard solver formats, check and fix quality aspects, perform additional mesh modeling, set up load and boundary conditions, drive the preferred solver and postprocessing results.

 >  Meshing
LMS Virtual.Lab Meshing is a complete configuration for geometry healing, meshing and performing linear, nonlinear and crash finite element analysis (FEA) using industry standard solvers. The meshing engine combines a basic and advanced mesher for automatic and associative generation of a finite element model on wireframe, surface or solid geometries.

 >  Structures Options
Options for the LMS Virtual.Lab Structures product line include geometry creation, AFC interoperability, crash preprocessing, coupling assistant for crash safety simulations, assembly, vehicle concept modeling, mesh morphing, CAD interfaces and more.

Acoustics and Vibration
The unique high performance finite element model adaptive order (FEMAO) acoustic solver embedded in LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics software automatically adapts element order to enable full frequency range acoustic analysis on a single FEM mesh precisely and efficiently. LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics 13.1 also enables you to perform scalable noise analysis adapted to your product development processes. For aero-acoustic problems, LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics provides a high performance algorithm to handle terabytes of data produced by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The algorithms integrated in LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics 13.1 enable more efficient handling of larger sets of CFD data and achieves higher accuracy of final predictions.
 >  Learn more about LMS Virtual.Lab Acoustics

Mechanisms
Coupling of multibody simulation (MBS) software – LMS Virtual.Lab Motion – and a nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) solver – LMS Samtech Samcef Mecano – enables accurate representation of nonlinear component deformations by accounting for large deformations and nonlinear material properties. LMS Virtual.Lab Motion 13.1 embeds a nonlinear FEA solver to accurately predict nonlinearity and enhances the 1D/3D real-time solution which provides accurate 1D and 3D simulation models for hardware-in-the-loop and driving simulators.
LMS Virtual.Lab Durability enhances CAE process integration with an editable text-based file that contains all model and solver job information. LMS Samtech Tea Pipe enables cost-effective material characterization of pipes and hoses.
 >  Learn more about LMS Virtual.Lab Motion
 >  Learn more about LMS Virtual.Lab Durability
 >  Learn more about LMS Samtech Tea Pipe

Automotive Process Integration
LMS Virtual.Lab Structures is an efficient and fully featured pre/postprocessing environment to perform linear, nonlinear and crash analysis on components, subsystems and full vehicles. The unique generic assembly environment allows you to create solver and attribute independent assemblies which can then be automatically fed to different solvers (such as Nastran, Radioss, Abaqus and LS-Dyna) and attributes (such as static strength, durability, crash and safety). Open and customizable, LMS Virtual.Lab software provides the foundation to automate and streamline vehicle assembly for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH), durability and crash.
 >  Learn more about LMS Virtual.Lab Structures

LMS Samtech groups a suite of 3D finite element, multibody modeling and analysis software to simulate and optimize the functional performance of mechanical systems. The virtual solutions are tuned to specific industry and/or application requirements and address critical performance engineering attributes, including:

• Process platform and structural assessment for aviation
• Advanced structural analysis, rotor dynamics and composites
• Overall mechanical systems performance of wind turbines

 >  LMS Samtech

Unique integration platform to harmonize and federate the structural analysis process, methods and tools

Most aeronautic, space and defense (ASD) companies face certain fundamental challenges in structural engineering departments due to increased complexity in products and ever increasing demands for safety and certification.

ASD companies face three main hurdles:

• Effective global collaboration while ensuring consistency and traceability
• High performance development for reduced time-to-market
• Knowledge capitalization through harmonization of methods, processes and tools

LMS Samtech Caesam is an integration platform that addresses these challenges by providing a unique platform that allows you to harmonize and federate the structural analysis process, methods and tools. The solution incorporates a unique data model that allows data to be shared within and across CAE analysis disciplines. Out-of-the-box preprocessing and postprocessing features in LMS Caesam focus on the aerospace industry – allowing extensive automation and giving engineers more time to spend on enhanced engineering aspects.

Open and Highly Customizable
LMS Samtech Caesam is an integration framework that:

• Allows integration of customer knowledge, methods and best practices
• Fits into the ecosystem of the company
• Includes features that help customize the framework for creating a solution based on your process and requirements
• Offers an intuitive GUI that can be customized as needed GUI

Data Model
The data model in LMS Caesam provides a basis to build a synthetic, consistent and structured common analysis model. This analysis model encapsulates all geometric, loads and results data for the particular structure and acts as the basis for improved consistency and traceability for all input and outputs.

Parametric Design and Optimization
LMS Caesam has an iterative design engine that you can use to study the effect that varying certain design parameters has on end results. You can also use the multitude of built-in optimization algorithms as a way to find the most suitable design for achieving the required strength with minimum weight.

Preprocessing and Postprocessing Capabilities
LMS Caesam includes a large set of preprocessing and postprocessing capabilities to:

• Efficiently deal with large data sets required in the aerospace industry
• Sort/select/group input and output data
• Visualize all data through multiple means such as table plots, chat plots, 3D plots
• Visualize critical results including FEA results
• Display data in Microsoft® Excel® (all table data can be imported and exported to Excel)

Preprocessing examples include load visualization, load case sorting and selection by means of specific interfaces.

Scalable Platform
The platform can be used to create a vertical application to address a specific need and then it can be extended to an enterprise level solution to meet the needs of the full design process.

 >  LMS Samtech Caesam

Structural analysis is a key part of the engineering design of structure; it’s the determination of the effects of loads on physical structures and their components. The global finite element solution, LMS Samcef, offers you these full analysis capabilities. The solution is fully scalable for linear to nonlinear analysis including composite, metallic material. It also includes key features for fast rotating machines, composite damage as well as damage and tolerance analysis.

 >  Analysis Solver Suite for Mechanical and Thermal Applications
LMS Samcef Solver Suite is a complete family of finite element solutions – from basic linear structures to flexible nonlinear mechanisms, including thermal simulation.

 >  FE-based Software for Analysis of Composite Material Structures
LMS Samcef Composites meets structure design sizing needs. The aim is not only to predict ultimate strength and progressive damage over time but to more efficiently use the comprehensive behavior of composite and mixed structures.
The capabilities are fully integrated to LMS Samcef Solver Suite – from linear (static, buckling and modal) to advance nonlinear (postbuckling, multibody dynamics and delamination) through thermal analysis, the analyses are performed in a common environment.

 >  Global Dynamics Simulation of Rotating Systems
LMS Samcef Rotors addresses the industrial challenges associated with rotor dynamics simulation of fast rotating machines, such as turbo machines, propellers and fans. Based on the finite element method, LMS Samcef Rotors enables critical speed computation and excitation responses in the frequency and time domains of fast rotating systems for nonmoving parts (such as stators and casing) and linking devices (such as bearings and gears).

 >  Flexible Pipe Advanced Analysis
LMS Samtech Tea Pipe is a comprehensive and powerful software package for the mechanical nonlinear simulation analysis of many types of hoses, cables and pipes (such as brake cables in a car or air and water hoses around a motor).

Advanced computation platform dedicated to wind turbine simulation, design and validation.

From the early stages in the wind turbine design process to the prototype wind turbine simulation, the LMS Samtech Samcef Wind Turbines approach exceeds current certification requirements. LMS Samcef Wind Turbines brings coherence to your wind turbine design process by providing a common interface to various engineering disciplines.

With a combination of dedicated graphical user interfaces and complemented with LMS Samcef Nonlinear Motion, a high performance solver, LMS Samcef Wind Turbines is perfectly suited to simulate flexible dynamics phenomena with high accuracy.

Open Scalable Platform
The versatility of LMS Samcef Wind Turbines allows you to analyze the behavior of any wind turbine concept. You can build simulation models using the predefined parametric models and/or integrate new components and subassemblies. Based on the LMS Samtech Caesam platform, LMS Samcef Wind Turbines facilitates a coherent engineering process – from concepts to component details – to produce a high fidelity model that you can exercise extensively for design and certification purposes.

Early Design Maturity
LMS Samcef Wind Turbines provides fully coupled simulations of the mechatronic wind turbine system. The wind turbine model contains:

• Aerodynamic, hydrodynamic and hydrostatic loads
• Finite element components
• Multibody elements
• Controller

The implementation of LMS Samcef Wind Turbines allows a change of paradigm – permitting you to perform load computation on models using different levels of accuracy at different stages of the design process. As a consequence, the solution enables wind turbine component optimization and allows you to predict potential vibration issues early in the design stage.

Component Sizing and Optimization
Blades, tower, nacelle, bedplate, drive train, yaw and pitch mechanisms can be analyzed in great detail within LMS Samcef Wind Turbines.

LMS Samcef Nonlinear Motion is an implicit nonlinear finite element solver that includes multibody simulation elements. The solution is built to solve models comprised of millions of degrees of freedom, large rotations and strong nonlinearities.

LMS Samtech expertise in detailed engineering is not limited to virtual modeling and analysis. The LMS Samtech software portfolio includes advanced optimization tools such as LMS Boss Quattro. End product design optimization requires an unparalleled approach to mitigate the risk without compromising the performance. LMS Samtech Boss Quattro helps you optimally develop design guidelines while considering the performance requirements.

 >  LMS Samtech Boss Quattro
LMS Samtech Boss Quattro is an open application manager for parametric analysis, design of experiments, multidisciplinary optimization and sensitivity analysis, statistical analyses and updating.

 >  Driving LMS Samcef Simulations from Catia V5
LMS Samcef Gateway enables LMS Samtech Samcef users to export Samcef data from a Catia V5 analysis document. It gives access to all Samcef solvers directly from dialog boxes linked to the Catia GPS environment, with extra dialog boxes available for features specific to LMS Samcef. You can input missing features via a text file that is automatically added at the end of the file produced by LMS Samcef Gateway.

What’s New in LMS Samtech for Structural Analysis
The LMS Samtech Samcef Solver environment is integrated in NX 10 CAE environment. This new NX environment enables you to model the entire design and analysis cycle of composite structures and components in a single integrated environment. With the new LMS Samtech Samcef version you can simulate lightweight structure manufacturing such as composites curing.
 >  Learn more about LMS Samtech Samcef Composites
 >  Learn more about LMS Samcef Solver Suite

The LMS Samtech Tea Pipe software dedicated to flexible hose design is available in NX 9 environment. Scalability of LMS Tea Pipe allows it to be used for all kind of hoses submitted to static (space/time transient pressure and temperature) and dynamic loadings (harmonic or transient accelerations). This mechanical simulation tool allows you to drastically reduce the time-to-market of your pipes design and to avoid costly vehicles call backs.
 >  Learn more about LMS Samtech Tea Pipe

What’s New in LMS Samtech for Process Integration for Aviation
LMS Samtech Caesam 7.2 bundles new process integration features to enable distributed aircraft project steering, management and control. For example, the package definition feature improves LMS Caesam data handling capacity and capabilities by allowing flexible data partitioning, sharing and reuse. You can create a package which is a consistent subset of the model (data, analysis and results) and then import, export or merge them. By enabling pre-identified processes and methods for each aircraft development program, you can efficiently manage the aircraft variant program process.
 >  Learn more about LMS Samtech Caesam

What’s New in LMS Samtech for Wind Turbines
LMS Samtech Samcef Wind Turbines 15 SL2 for wind turbines simplifies the postprocessing of multiple load cases by providing efficient curve editor functionality. A new tower model helps you input tower data directly from an Excel spreadsheet. The new LMS Samcef version is also coupled with LMS Imagine.Lab Amesim (1D) software to enable easy implementation of hydraulic gearbox, electric pitch system and converters to perform multi-domain controls simulation.
 >  Learn more about LMS Samtech Samcef Wind Turbines

LMS Testing Solutions gives you access to a complete platform of test-based engineering solutions for rotating machinery, structural dynamics, acoustics, durability and environmental testing, vibration control and data management. Testing departments around the world count on LMS Testing Solutions to increase test efficiency and productivity, maintain the utmost quality and ultimately achieve a higher return on investment from existing testing facilities.

 >  LMS Testing Solutions

A complete, integrated portfolio of durability, noise and vibration engineering solutions scalable from standard qualification testing to advanced troubleshooting and engineering. The LMS Testing software makes testing more efficient, significantly increases productivity and delivers more reliable results.

 >  Designed for Testing Productivity
LMS Test.Lab is a complete, integrated solution for test-based durability, noise and vibration engineering that combines high-speed, multichannel data acquisition with a full suite of integrated testing, analysis and reporting tools. Designed to make testing more efficient, LMS Test.Lab increases productivity and delivers more reliable results even when a limited number of prototypes is available.

 >  Best-in-class Analyzer
LMS Test.Xpress is a no-compromise sound, vibration and durability analyzer. It combines the ease of use of a traditional analyzer with the high-speed performance and measurement quality of an advanced measurement system. The solution provides you with a range of vibration and acoustical ISO standards and includes an easy-to-use interface.

 >  Advanced Durability Data Processing
LMS Tecware is a modular suite of solutions for durability load data processing. Co-developed with leading transportation OEMs, it streamlines the process of consolidating load data by analyzing durability-specific characteristics. Fast and intuitive time data validation allows you to prepare data for reliable simulations, proving ground and rig test campaigns – without requiring any cryptic commands or writing complex programs.

Deliver the data quality and format required to get your testing job done right the first time – in the lab, in the field, with a PC or through autonomous recording.

 >  Flexibility. Performance. Precision.
The LMS SCADAS state-of-the-art data acquisition systems cover all types of noise, vibration, durability testing and engineering tasks in the lab, in the field, with a PC or through autonomous recording. Seamless integration with LMS Test.Lab and LMS Test.Xpress provides you with reliable results and optimal testing productivity. Take your mind off the deadline and focus on the test.

 >  High-Performance Laboratory Data Acquisition
The LMS SCADAS Lab is a high-performance laboratory data acquisition solution that offers you channel-count independent real-time processing and excellent throughput performance. The solution is ideal for all types of testing jobs from acoustic and vibration engineering tasks to high-channel count modal testing, aircraft ground vibration testing, high-speed throughput or turbine testing applications.

 >  Versatile and Mobile Data Acquisition
The LMS SCADAS Mobile data acquisition hardware packs the quality and acquisition power of the LMS SCADAS system into a compact and rugged design, offering you versatile signal-conditioning and data-acquisition capabilities. Designed for high measurement and testing productivity, LMS SCADAS Mobile represents one of the most powerful systems in its class and is supported by both LMS Test.Lab and LMS Test.Xpress for a broad range of noise, vibration and durability applications.

 >  Autonomous and Smart Data Recording
You can use the LMS SCADAS Recorder as an autonomous data recording device, as a smart recorder with a wireless smart device or as a frontend system for your in-field and laboratory applications. The integration of data acquisition and analysis considerably improves data consistency and allows you to reliably compare data sets. The LMS SCADAS Recorder extends the LMS SCADAS platform to the broadest possible range of data acquisition and analysis tasks.

 >  Extra Small. Extra Smart.
The compact, portable LMS SCADAS XS brings a completely new dimension to noise and vibration testing. In response to the continuous pressure to test products in real-life circumstances and against stricter deadlines, LMS SCADAS XS provides the ideal size, flexibility and measurement performance for optimal mobility. The portable data acquisition system allows mobile diagnostics and troubleshooting, even by non-expert users who need to perform fast and reliable measurements.

 >  LMS SCADAS Pass-by Noise
LMS SCADAS Pass-by Noise Hardware is a complete solution that includes all sensors and conditioning required to perform certified pass-by noise tests for different configurations and use cases, according to common standards.

 >  From sound to source in minutes
LMS Soundbrush helps you see what you hear. It is the first ever technology to visualize sound fields in 3D while measuring. LMS Soundbrush is the perfect tool to map sound propagation around objects and localize acoustic sources. Apart from being functionally unique, LMS Soundbrush also offers outstanding user-friendliness: easy setup and plug-and-play features.

 >  Advanced Vibration Testing Equipment and Acoustic Monopole Sources
With more than 30 years of experience in noise and vibration technology, LMS Engineering services developed LMS Qsources, a comprehensive suite of advanced vibration testing equipment for noise and vibration testing. LMS Qsources seamlessly integrates with LMS Test.Lab software and brings a unique solution to the market that exceeds current market standards for data accuracy and productivity. LMS Qsources provides you with a suite of vibration equipment and acoustic monopole sources with real-world application capabilities to meet your product functionality, quality and reliability goals.

The complete suite of testing and analysis solutions for noise, vibration and durability testing and engineering includes a wide range of applications: structural dynamics testing and analysis, rotating machinery testing, acoustic testing, field and dynamic environmental testing, durability load data acquisition and processing and a full data management solution.

 >  Meet Your Acoustic Objectives
How a product sounds plays a critical role in conveying the right message about its quality and functionality, comfort and overall brand image. Regulations and competitive pressures have forced manufacturers to keep noise levels within limits and meet increasingly stringent sound standards. Sound engineers look for more productive testing and analysis solutions to quickly and effectively identify root causes of existing sound issues and help them efficiently design products that transmit the right brand message.

 >  Systematic Approach to Vibro-acoustic Engineering
LMS Test.Lab Transfer Path Analysis is a highly efficient solution to identify your noise problems and their origins and to quickly evaluate design improvements. Transfer path analysis (TPA) provides a systematic approach to test-based engineering processes and focuses your engineering efforts on the components that matter most. As a method to fully understand vibro-acoustic behavior, it assists you in troubleshooting vibro-acoustic issues and setting performance targets for each critical component. Enhanced TPA techniques address noise and vibration problems, which help you detect root causes of issues early in the design cycle.

 >  Understanding Structural Behavior
Structural dynamics testing used to be a long and complex process involving quite extensive trial-and-error and time-consuming test setups. With LMS Test.Lab Structures software and LMS SCADAS hardware you can perform large-scale modal surveys in hours rather than days. You can focus on identifying root causes of vibration problems and applying powerful analysis tools to explore the best solutions to address structural weaknesses. Relying on 30 years of modal testing experience from impact testing of small structures to large-scale campaigns using hundreds of measurement channels, you can benefit from a tradition of cutting-edge expertise as you maximize your testing efficiency.

 >  Measure the Dynamic Characteristics of New Aircraft Design
A ground vibration test experimentally measures the dynamic characteristics of the aircraft in different configurations to validate the models used during aircraft design and for flutter behavior prediction.The LMS Test.Lab Ground Vibration Testing solution and engineering services help you reduce testing and analysis time without compromising the accuracy of the results. The Ground Vibration Testing solution allows you to obtain experimental vibration data of the whole aircraft structure to validate and improve its structural dynamics model.

 >  Vibro-acoustic Engineering of Rotating Equipment
Engineering teams that focus on vibro-acoustic troubleshooting and product refinement require a comprehensive array of tools such as waterfall mapping, order tracking, time data analysis and processing functions as well as specialized modules to analyze and visualize the vast amounts of data generated. Whether you are performing measurements in an engine test cell, in a vehicle on the proving ground or on a pump in the field, LMS Test.Lab Rotating Machinery can help you engineer quiet, efficient products.

 >  High-speed Multi-channel Vibration Control for Spacecraft Testing
LMS Test.Lab Environmental testing delivers a complete solution for qualification and acceptance testing on large fragile structures including spacecraft, satellites and system prototypes. It is designed for parallel acquisition and online reduction of vibration channels during random or sine closed-loop vibration control testing, in reverberant rooms and for high frequency transient capture in deployment testing. The solution also helps you test and validate the robustness of spacecraft design for load launch survivability by accurately reproducing launch acoustic environment levels in a large reverberation room.

 >  Profound Expertise in Durability Engineering
Maximize your durability testing efficiency and productivity with a complete hardware and software solution dedicated to (road) load data acquisition and (road) load data processing. LMS SCADAS Recorder and LMS Test.Lab Durability are ideal companions for accurate load data acquisition while LMS Tecware provides an integrated approach to durability data processing which allows you flexible target setting and a precise test schedule definition.

 >  Collaborating in Real-Time
Data management is crucial in any testing department. LMS Test.Lab Data Management provides you with a collaborative data management solution specifically designed to support engineering departments with data acquisition, annotation, storage and sharing. All your data is stored on a central server letting everyone easily search and access all project information in real time. The thin web client allows data access from everywhere at all times.

Maximize testing efficiency and productivity

A critical factor in successful durability engineering is gaining a precise understanding of the loads that products will undergo during their anticipated lifetimes. Accurate data acquisition and processing, however, can be challenging and time consuming.

Our durability testing product line is enhanced with new road load data acquisition and load data processing solutions so you can maximize testing productivity. These innovative durability solutions work together so you can acquire data more quickly, gain measurement flexibility and confidently execute test campaigns.

Measure Right the First Time with LMS Test.Lab Durability Acquisition
Siemens PLM Software bundles its unmatched durability engineering expertise into an integrated, end-to-end solution for road load data acquisition (RLDA). From a single software platform, you have complete control of the full RLDA process. LMS Test.Lab Durability Acquisition combines universal, multichannel data acquisition with a full suite of channel setup, measurement, validation, reporting and data sharing tools.
 >  Durability Acquisition

Instant Data Validation with LMS Smart Control
RLDA becomes a one-man operation with LMS Smart Control, a wireless touchscreen application that runs on a 7” tablet. It’s compact, smart and particularly suited for use under challenging conditions. You can set up tests, monitor in real time and immediately validate measurements to avoid lengthy test reruns.
 >  Smart Control

Measure Anything with LMS SCADAS Data Acquisition Modules
The LMS SCADAS Recorder offers maximum measurement power in a single, rugged box. The data acquisition modules enable you to perform virtually any load data measurement imaginable. With the addition of two new durability data acquisition modules you can now capture synchronized video signals and expand your measurements with IP67-compliant temperature acquisition.
 >  Universal Durability Module

Process Data Faster with the New Release of LMS Tecware
The latest release of LMS Tecware offers test engineers an advanced solution for load data processing. New drivers add support for the HBM SoMat, HBM catman, imc Famos, MTS RPC3 float and MOOG formats and avoid data conversion and data duplication. The LMS Tecware LayoutBuilder adds a dedicated environment for creating custom reports.
 >  Tecware

Faster, More Complete and Deeper Engineering Insights using Test-based Engineering

The newly released LMS Test.Lab 14 adds to the renowned reputation of its predecessors with a more complete and faster approach to test-based engineering solutions. From multichannel data acquisition to a full suite of testing, analysis and reporting solutions, LMS Test.Lab 14 provides you with a versatile and rigorous problem-solving toolkit. A wide range of updates enables more targeted engineering insights and detailed problem analysis. Real-time data analysis speeds up the overall testing process and gives you a clear, immediate picture of your test data.

The extended functionalities of the newly released LMS Test.Lab 14 enhance the usability and functionality flexibility of LMS Test.Lab with faster, more complete and deeper engineering insights for acoustic testing, structural dynamics testing, rotating machinery testing, environmental testing, durability testing and data management.

Acoustic Testing – Enhanced Engineering Efficiency
With various improvements in sound source localization, sound quality and sound transmission loss, LMS Test.Lab 14 delivers more insights and greatly enhances overall acoustic testing efficiency. Extended pass-by noise certification meets more stringent standards and regulations while enhanced transfer path analysis capabilities allow an accurate root cause analysis.

Structural Dynamics Testing – Increased Flexibility
The enriched functionalities in LMS Test.Lab Structuresenable you to analyze complex structures with more flexibility and efficiency. The enhanced support for triaxial accelerometers connecting to the SCADAS V24 module and the improved interaction with graphical models allows you to simultaneously measure more signals as well as analyze data faster and in greater detail.

Rotating Machinery – Online Angle-Domain Testing Solution
LMS Test.Lab 14 adds online angle-domain testing to LMS Test.Lab Rotating Machinery which allows you to visualize operational vibrations, noise and strain plotted against the shaft angle during the measurement. The online testing also allows you to perform real-time torsional vibration analysis, including phase relation and the identification of precise angular positions at which critical events occur.

Dynamic Environmental Testing – Kurtosis Control Solution
LMS Test.Lab 14 introduces the option LMS Test.Lab Kurtosis Control software to LMS Test.Lab Random Control. This extension enables you to generate non-Gaussian signals with a preset power spectral density and a user-defined Kurtosis value. Non-Gaussian excitations result in a more realistic representation of operational conditions and more frequently produce higher-range accelerations during a test.

Durability Testing – End-to-end Solution for Durability Acquisition
LMS Test.Lab 14 adds LMS Test.Lab Durability Acquisition, an end-to-end solution for (road) load data acquisition. From a single software platform, you have complete control of the full load data acquisition process. LMS Test.Lab Durability Acquisition combines universal, multichannel data acquisition with a full suite of channel setup, measurement, validation, reporting and data sharing tools.

Data Management – Access and Compare Data More Easily
LMS Test.Lab Data Management is extended to more efficiently manage and search project collateral documents. Regulations, standards, multimedia resources, reference data and legacy data can all be easily accessed. A new functionality in LMS Test.Lab Desktop greatly improves the ease at which you can compare data between different displays by using coupled cursors.

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