VisualDSS CAE Data Management and Decision Support System for Simulation Life Cycle Management

Simulation industry has matured enough to carry out the design iterations using just the simulation results without relying on expensive prototype testing. Such simulation approaches have drastically reduced the product development lead time, cost and product failures. Engineers and managers spend most of their time on non engineering activities searching for information, learning simulation tools and workflows, hackneyed repetitive simulations, manual communication and manual simulation data management. The integrated simulation management system such as VisualDSS® (Visual Decision Support System) helps to outwit the current performances of simulation by addressing such non engineering areas of simulation. VisualDSS is a simulation lifecycle management system from ESI’s Visual-Environment suite which aims at providing end-to-end decision support for the simulations such as LS-DYNA® by providing integrated multi disciplinary simulation management features such as simulation data management, compute model management, simulation automation and workflow management, knowledge capture and reuse, simulation project management, results and audit trails processing, smart search and queries, inter enterprises simulation collaboration management and much more. This enables the enterprises to make better decisions, increase the simulation productivity, reduce the project lead time and cost, eliminate the simulation assets loss and improve the simulation reliability. This paper describes the application of VisualDSS in the CAE industry catering multi domain simulation and data management with the objective of supporting decision making process.