At most companies, CAE is performed as an isolated activity within a single functional team or engineering discipline. The performance, safety, and reliability of their products, however, is greatly influenced by the interactions between these disciplines.
With 50+ year history stretching back to the early NASA moon landing project, MSC Software has been endeavoring to provide world class CAE co-simulation solutions to engineers worldwide. And here are a few reasons why CAE engineers benefit from our unique co-simulation technologies.
Co-simulation provides engineers with a unique, more complete & holistic performance insight by coupling together multiple simulation disciplines. Everything from acoustics to multibody dynamics (MBD), to CFD, to structural analysis, and explicit crash dynamics can be connected together in MSC (see Figure below).