Products
Solution
Add-Ons
Application
Fiber
Fiber
By using awarded-winning models, users can accurately predict the fiber orientation and calculate the anisotropic mechanical behaviours of fiber-reinforced materials for short and long fibers.
Enhanced Fiber
Enhanced Fiber
Considers orientation and process-induced anisotropic thermo-mechanical properties of flat fiber and enables the flow-fiber coupling analysis in order to capture anisotropic flow behaviour.
GAIM
Gas Assisted Injection Molding
Provides a 3D visualization of gas penetration behaviour to estimate the skin thickness, corner effects, predict a blow through and determine an optimized overflow design.
WAIM
Water Assisted Injection Molding
Visualizes the dynamic penetration behaviours by water. Hollow plastics, blow through, and corner effects can be predicted to maximize water flow control.
Co-Injection Molding
Co-Injection
Provides 3D skin and core evolution during the sequential molding process. Users can have a better observation of thickness ratio distribution and the two materials’ filling effect such as blow through under the circumstances of frozen skin layer and hot core.
Bi-Injection Molding
Bi-Injection Molding
Provides flexible settings for each material and observes the combined filling effect from the interaction of two materials. The welding region can be predicted and optimized to fit the design and functionality of the product.
Powder Injection Molding
Powder Injection Molding
Visualizes the fluid’s flow behaviour in the green part from a metal/ceramic injection molding process. Users can observe a phase separation phenomenon and validate the powder concentration distribution, to predict black lines areas and warpage.
Resin Transfer Molding
Resin Transfer Molding
Utilizes non-isothermal 3D analysis and visualizes filling behaviours in all directions. The permeability effects on different fiber mat types and orientation can be reflected for optimal control of resin infusion.
In-Mold Decoration
In-Mold Decoration
Evaluates the flow and thermal effects on the carrier film during the molding process. The effect of heat isolation caused by carrier film can also be verified.
Injection Compression Molding
Injection Compression Molding
Analyzes property changes in the compression molding process and provides enhanced replication for the parts with micro structures. Combined with VE and Optics analyses for thin and flat products to have a better understanding of residual stress, shrinkage and warpage.
Compression Molding
Compression Molding
Simulates the compression molding process from squeezed solid deformation to liquid filling stage for a better control of the process.
Foaming Injection Molding
Foaming Injection Molding
Simulates the bubbles’ cell nucleation and growth to evaluate the distribution of density and sizes for structural performance validation. It supports the core-back feature.
PU Chemical Foaming
PU Chemical Foaming
Considers curing and foaming kinetics to predict the melt and bubble’s properties under chemical effects. Users can calculate the cell size and density distribution to ensure a good volume-to-weight ratio of the product.
Stress
Stress
Evaluates the structural quality of plastic parts and predicts potential issues by setting up basic boundary conditions. Users can get the results for both the part and inserts.
Pin Movement
Pin Movement
Analyzes the actual movement of valve pins in the hot runner system. The influence of the pin’s sequence on the melt behavior during opening / closing can be observed.
3D Coolant CFD
3D Coolant CFD
Simulates the coolant flow behaviour in 3D cooling channels and visualizes the streamlines. The heat transfer in critical areas will be better predicted.
Advanced Hot Runner
Advanced Hot Runner
Optimizes hot runner designs. The precise filling pattern and temperature distribution generated from a hot runner system can be observed.
Optics
Optics
Analyzes the flow and thermal influences in optical properties of plastics. Users can observe the phenomena such as birefringence, fringed patterns and non-uniform refractive index.
Viscoelasticity
Viscoelasticity
Calculates the variations of viscosity and elasticity under different temperature conditions. The performance on molecular orientation, residual stress, warpage, and optical properties can be considered.
Couple VE-Flow
Couple VE-Flow
Enables fully-coupled viscoelasticity calculation for flow simulation. Users can validate complex viscoelastic flow behavior such as jetting, ear flow or die swell effect.
Fiber
Fiber
By using awarded-winning models, users can accurately predict the fiber orientation and calculate the anisotropic mechanical behaviours of fiber-reinforced materials for short and long fibers.
Enhanced Fiber
Enhanced Fiber
Considers orientation and process-induced anisotropic thermo-mechanical properties of flat fiber and enables the flow-fiber coupling analysis in order to capture anisotropic flow behaviour.
GAIM
Gas Assisted Injection Molding
Provides a 3D visualization of gas penetration behaviour to estimate the skin thickness, corner effects, predict a blow through and determine an optimized overflow design.
WAIM
Water Assisted Injection Molding
Visualizes the dynamic penetration behaviours by water. Hollow plastics, blow through, and corner effects can be predicted to maximize water flow control.
Co-Injection Molding
Co-Injection
Provides 3D skin and core evolution during the sequential molding process. Users can have a better observation of thickness ratio distribution and the two materials’ filling effect such as blow through under the circumstances of frozen skin layer and hot core.
Bi-Injection Molding
Bi-Injection Molding
Provides flexible settings for each material and observes the combined filling effect from the interaction of two materials. The welding region can be predicted and optimized to fit the design and functionality of the product.
Powder Injection Molding
Powder Injection Molding
Visualizes the fluid’s flow behaviour in the green part from a metal/ceramic injection molding process. Users can observe a phase separation phenomenon and validate the powder concentration distribution, to predict black lines areas and warpage.
Resin Transfer Molding
Resin Transfer Molding
Utilizes non-isothermal 3D analysis and visualizes filling behaviours in all directions. The permeability effects on different fiber mat types and orientation can be reflected for optimal control of resin infusion.
In-Mold Decoration
In-Mold Decoration
Evaluates the flow and thermal effects on the carrier film during the molding process. The effect of heat isolation caused by carrier film can also be verified.
Injection Compression Molding
Injection Compression Molding
Analyzes property changes in the compression molding process and provides enhanced replication for the parts with micro structures. Combined with VE and Optics analyses for thin and flat products to have a better understanding of residual stress, shrinkage and warpage.
Compression Molding
Compression Molding
Simulates the compression molding process from squeezed solid deformation to liquid filling stage for a better control of the process.
Foaming Injection Molding
Foaming Injection Molding
Simulates the bubbles’ cell nucleation and growth to evaluate the distribution of density and sizes for structural performance validation. It supports the core-back feature.
PU Chemical Foaming
PU Chemical Foaming
Considers curing and foaming kinetics to predict the melt and bubble’s properties under chemical effects. Users can calculate the cell size and density distribution to ensure a good volume-to-weight ratio of the product.
Stress
Stress
Evaluates the structural quality of plastic parts and predicts potential issues by setting up basic boundary conditions. Users can get the results for both the part and inserts.
Pin Movement
Pin Movement
Analyzes the actual movement of valve pins in the hot runner system. The influence of the pin’s sequence on the melt behavior during opening / closing can be observed.
3D Coolant CFD
3D Coolant CFD
Simulates the coolant flow behaviour in 3D cooling channels and visualizes the streamlines. The heat transfer in critical areas will be better predicted.
Advanced Hot Runner
Advanced Hot Runner
Optimizes hot runner designs. The precise filling pattern and temperature distribution generated from a hot runner system can be observed.
Optics
Optics
Analyzes the flow and thermal influences in optical properties of plastics. Users can observe the phenomena such as birefringence, fringed patterns and non-uniform refractive index.
Viscoelasticity
Viscoelasticity
Calculates the variations of viscosity and elasticity under different temperature conditions. The performance on molecular orientation, residual stress, warpage, and optical properties can be considered.
Couple VE-Flow
Couple VE-Flow
Enables fully-coupled viscoelasticity calculation for flow simulation. Users can validate complex viscoelastic flow behavior such as jetting, ear flow or die swell effect.
CAE Assistant
FEA
FEA Interface
Exports the anisotropic material properties created by the molding process to structural analysis software including ABAQUS, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, Marc, Nastran and Optistruct for further structural simulation.
MMI
Micromechanics Interface
Enables FEA Interface to connect with material modelling programs in order to perform non-linear structural simulation.
Digimat-RP
Digimat-RP
Provides material modelling capabilities to link injection molding simulation with structural analysis. Users can obtain non-linear and anisotropic material behavior of reinforced plastics.
PP
Parallel Processing
Enhances the calculation performance by accessing the full power of multi-core CPUs.
iSLM
iSLM
Assists cross-functional teams to capture data more efficiently. The intelligent Simulation Lifecycle Management system provides the simulation data with integrity, traceability, knowledge capture, and collaboration.
SYNC
SYNC
Synchronizes the workflow from design to simulation in CAD software. The CAD models can be validated in the simulation-driven design environment.
Machine Response
Machine Response
Considers the actual response time of the injection molding machine on both velocity and pressure. Higher simulation accuracy can be achieved with a more precise flow rate and pressure prediction.
Expert
Expert
Design of Experiment capabilities allow users to find the optimal capacity by evaluating all process parameters such as packing time, cooling time and mold temperature with exportable graphical summaries.
CADdoctor
CADdoctor
Helps to clean and simplify the geometries. CAD models with broken surfaces and geometry distortions can be automatically checked and repaired.