The design and ongoing improvement of compressors...pumps...conveyor systems...heavy machinery...mining equipment...energy turbines and power plants...machine tools...and home appliances (referred to as Mechanical Industries) are all fields of engineering in which the product development teams are confronted with numerous challenges in order to meet market demands. LMS International has developed a worldwide reputation for partnering with the "Who's Who" of these industries and assisting them to address key development issues such as:

Develop innovative designs

• Develop products that meet and exceed customer expectations.
• Explore the dynamic performance of new concepts and materials to create winning products.
• Proactively engineer designs that reflect your company's core brand values.

Accelerate product development

• Solve development issues quickly and efficiently in every step of the development process.
• Optimize designs early in the development and avoid extensive troubleshooting.
• Efficiently trace down problem root causes during prototype testing and refinement.

Deliver high quality products

• Assess the performance of early concepts and secure the right design options from the start.
• Simulate how your products behave in real-life conditions to secure quality and performance.
• Develop the right trade-off between key product attributes, quality, cost and weight.

Manage costs and risks

• Reduce the dependency on costly prototype testing through accurate simulation.
• Design components to the right quality and safety standards, avoiding overdimensioned parts and saving material costs.
• Eliminate weak points from the early design stages onwards and avoid high warranty costs.

In this session you will be given actual examples of how LMS technologies are making a difference.

"Joint engineering efforts performed early in development allowed us to increase the productivity of our weaving machines, while keeping noise and vibration at acceptable levels." Picanol

"Acoustic simulation can undoubtedly compress the product development cycle and thereby enable our engineering staff to develop many more new high-quality appliance models in far less time." Miele

"The combination of virtual simulation and adequate experimental testing allows Siemens to efficiently simulate the impact of specific design modifications on the acoustic performance of gas turbines." Siemens

"In combination with our new process for low-noise design, we expect to cut down NVH development cost and time by 50%." Eaton Hydraulics

"Not only do we expect LMS Virtual.Lab Motion to deliver a 50% gain in model creation time, we also expect dramatic time gains in modifying existing designs and analysing multiple design alternatives." Toshiba

These are a few of the Mechanical Industries markets relying on LMS. Others include machinery for textiles, packaging, paper manufacture, printing, grinding-turning-milling, packing (materials handling)...

Tuesday May 22, 2007
Please Note: The Webex Seminar commences
at 3:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Presenter: Anne Falier
Anne Falier is a mechanical engineer with a Masters in Industry Marketing who worked in the tool manufacturing sector in Italy before joining the team at LMS as a support engineer. With seven years experience in LMS technology, Anne is the market segment manager for Mechanical Industries.