Siemens Upgrades Simcenter Testlab, Bringing “Testing to AI” Into One Flow

Siemens announced the latest update to its Simcenter Testlab software on the 2nd. The core of the update is to shorten the process from test setup to engineering insights, reduce manual work, and support the delivery of consistent results.

In this update, Siemens combined integrated test workflows, automation, and enhanced data management. This creates a structure that ties together the full process from test preparation to analysis in one flow.

The update applies to structural dynamics, system NVH prediction, AI-ready data buildout, and shock and vibration test preparation. It is designed to improve testing efficiency and support the acquisition of contextualized data from the early stages of development.

Bruno Massa said that as product complexity increases, engineering organizations face a growing need to turn test data into reliable insights. He explained that the latest Simcenter Testlab update supports faster results and earlier validation, and also helps build a foundation for AI-based testing.

Siemens' Simcenter Testlab Neo completed the transition to a next-generation workflow with this update. The core of the update is to convert structural dynamics testing procedures into an integrated next-generation flow. As a result, test engineers can carry out an integrated end-to-end structural dynamics workflow with minimal manual work. Team members with less expertise can also set up and run tests in a consistent way.

Siemens said this change could improve overall efficiency in structural dynamics processes by up to 35%. The update also strengthens system NVH prediction capabilities. The new workflow integrates component characterization and virtual prototyping. This helps users evaluate performance before building physical prototypes.

With this setup, NVH performance evaluation speed can improve by up to 60%. At the same time, in AI-based engineering, securing structured, traceable, and contextualized data is important. The latest Simcenter Testlab integrates data collection, analysis, and management in a single environment to meet these data requirements.

The latest Simcenter Testlab also offers enhanced annotation features. The latest Simcenter Testlab also offers automation.

These features make it easier to use test and validation data more flexibly, and support engineering organizations in building reusable, AI-friendly datasets. They also make it possible to supplement physical test data with virtual data, while supporting the use of supplemented data for AI model training.

It also newly offers virtual shaker test capabilities for the aerospace and defense industries. This allows engineers to prepare in advance for simulation-based certification and durability testing, build full test setup models, and evaluate a range of scenarios. Siemens said it can also help identify potential issues before full-scale testing of expensive physical hardware, reducing uncertainty and risk in certification and testing processes.

In addition, it provides a new automated component model extraction solution. The solution reduces manual work in the process of generating reusable models for system-level NVH analysis and automates the ISO 20270-based NVH component characterization process. It also automates measurement and model extraction workflows, supporting repeatable, high-throughput component testing with minimal manual work.

In promoting this Simcenter Testlab update, Siemens presented a direction that expands the scope of test-based data use for component characterization across projects. The goal is to speed decision-making in the early stages of product development, and the company plans to connect physical and virtual testing to improve efficiency across the full process of collecting, analyzing, validating, and using test data. The efficiency gains are intended for engineering as a whole.

To that end, Siemens offers Simcenter Testlab Go and Simcenter SCADAS Go, both of which do not require separate licenses. The functions of the two solutions are focused on simplifying time-data collection, monitoring, and validation tasks based on Simcenter SCADAS hardware.

At the same time, Siemens removed license management, dongle dependence, and network dependence to improve accessibility and expand deployment flexibility. The update also includes a move to increase the value of existing investments in Simcenter SCADAS hardware.

Source: TECHWORLD · Park Kyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407712

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