Bye Aerospace is an aviation start-up focused on creating innovative electric aircraft solutions. Their response to the high cost of new pilot training: an innovative, all-electric airplane dubbed the eFlyer. The firm also develops and integrates structural and mechanical systems along with aerodynamic advances in design, building products that offer significant cost benefits and improved performance. 

With two electric aircraft projects underway in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 23 aircraft certification process, the first and most important is the eFlyer 2 training aircraft. According to founder and CEO George Bye, "What's disruptive and changes the opportunity with electric aircraft is the propulsion system. The trajectory for electric motors and batteries and their evolution from 10 and 20 years ago to the present day makes it possible for the first time to develop and aircraft that is very disruptive, has lower operating costs, no Co2, and is very low noise. That's the piece that changes everything."

We're proud to be working with Aerion Supersonic during their rollout of the Siemens portfolio. Providing a broad engineering software portfolio and an extensive history of implementation, Applied CAx and Siemens Digital Industries Software will allow Aeron Supersonic to realize the digital thread from design, analysis, test, and certification to streamlining of future manufacturing.

Applied CAx and Predictive Engineering have been working closely with our customer SHB Power Plant Engineering on the modeling of bio-fuel power generation in STAR-CCM+. A local company in Portland, Oregon, SHB specializes in upgrading boilers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions. This has been a unique project that has involved software support for Simcenter STAR-CCM+, engineering consulting services, and technology transfer so that SHB can run the models in-house for further design exploration.

Thanks to everyone who attended our Simulation Symposium!

The way we think of the design process is changing. Begin your next decade of engineering at this free hands-on event covering where FEA, CFD & design trends are headed. Whether you're facing fatigue failure in self-contained products or heat flow issues in large & small assemblies, or potentially facing a need for physics-based system simulation, our event will let you get hands-on with powerful tools and get your questions answered by simulation experts.

Held at the beautiful Boeing Future of Flight Center near Everett, our event will be in the heart of one of Seattle's many vibrant aerospace communities. Network with fellow colleagues and begin your next decade of simulation engineering with a fresh infusion of discovery and knowledge.

Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020
Seattle, Washington
Boeing Future of Flight Center

In this case study, the focus was a sea-water dredging system and the purpose was to evaluate the sediment flow path of fine silt injected into the stream. The client was concerned that inline concentration measurements of sediment were far lower than expected values. They were interested in gaining a better understanding of how sediment was distributed through their pipe system. For the CFD consulting team at Predictive Engineering, this analysis was an interesting opportunity to showcase the multi-phase capabilities of STAR-CCM+.

The sediment is injected at the far end of the pipe, down stream of the main inlet, and is modeled as a Lagrangian Multiphase. Here, the motion of the sediment particles is calculated through the main continuum phase of the fluid in the pipe. The particles varied in size as defined by a distribution provided by the end-client. The fluid makes two 90° bends through a pipe coupling and a sharp bend through a tee, which causes a significant amount of swirl in the fluid.

In a seamless transition, we recently set up a new support system for our customers. The good news? From the outside, nothing has changed. Customers can still use their existing methods to reach us for FEMAP, NX CAD, NX CAM, Solid Edge, Simcenter, STAR-CCM+ and Teamcenter support questions.

But from the inside, there are many advantages with our new support system. With an intuitive design and top notch features, Freshdesk lets us integrate various channels into a single ticketing platform.

Other advantages include:

• Identify tickets with lengthy periods of unresponsiveness
• Better ticket ownership for support team members
• Easily identify unresolved tickets
• Parent-child ticketing and linked tickets for similar issues
• Tools to create future support posts from existing tickets
• Tools to analyze data for support trends

If you're currently one of our support customers, please keep reaching out to us in your usual way.

If you're not currently one of our Siemens Digital Industries Software support customers, please reach out to us today!

When was the last time you evaluated your relationship with your CAD vendor? The most powerful, flexible, and innovative product development solution in the industry, NX for Design has the features, performance, and capabilities to help you get product to market faster than ever before.

With NX, you can consolidate on a single solution with a single data set, a single user interface, and lower total cost of ownership. You are concerned about data. We understand. We have the tools needed to help you bring all of your data forward to NX with the highest quality, and minimum amount of effort. With synchronous technology, you can make any changes needed to the data to help you execute your design changes.

Siemens Digital Industries Software has put together a good succinct article on moving from Creo to NX, and includes a profile on Team Penske and their managed migration process from PTC to NX.

Check out Siemens' first article in their new blog series, Beyond the Forum. The ongoing series will highlight the champions and community members working in the forum mines day & night.

And in exciting news, the very first article features Applied CAx’s own Randy Ellsworth! Randy is known far & wide for his PLM prowess, but in this revealing Q&A, Randy talks about his early days as a painter in Eugene, Ore., his decade-plus as an enlisted sailor in the Navy, and how he came into the world of PLM.

Says Randy: “Most Teamcenter administrators fall into the job, coming from either Engineering or IT, and don’t necessarily choose it. It chooses them and I’m no exception as you’ll read later. But that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it and am extremely thankful for the experience and relationships I’ve built over the years.”  

For Applied CAx and Sherpa Design, Randy provides strategic consulting, aligning Teamcenter with business needs to generate an architecture, landscape and road map.

Learn more about Randy and his experience with Teamcenter in the full article.