Design Engineering with Digital Twins
Simulate – Innovate – Optimize
Create a Productive Feedback Loop
Innovate with Maple: The Future of Design Engineering
Welcome to the forefront of design engineering! Our suite of tools, including Maple Flow and MapleSim, transforms the way engineers create, simulate, and optimize their designs. By leveraging the world’s most powerful math engine, Maple can streamline your workflow, reduce costs, and achieve unparalleled accuracy through the integration of Digital Twins.
Binary Semantics, a certified reseller of Maplesoft, offers the complete suite of Maplesoft’s mathematical software solutions to the Indian academic and commercial sectors.
Understanding Digital Twins: Beyond the Blueprint
A Digital Twin is an advanced virtual model of a physical system or machine design. This simulated model updates with real-time data, offering a dynamic view of their physical counterparts throughout the product lifecycle – R&D, production, maintenance and beyond. By serving as a single source of truth, it enhances communication and collaboration across departments, including design, training, and marketing.
Test and fine-tune designs in a virtual environment before creating physical prototypes.
Forecast how the product will perform under various real-world conditions and systems.
Detect and troubleshoot potential problems with the physical product before the issues occur.
Proactively schedule maintenance based on predicted wear and tear, minimizing downtime.
Use data from the digital twin to enhance and perfect the product over time.
Digital Twin Implementation Made Easy with Maple
By following this roadmap, you can progressively integrate simulation strategies, achieving early benefits and setting the stage for advanced applications:
- Identify Business Objectives
Focus on your most pressing needs and potential applications of a Digital Twin. - Start Simple
Begin with creating a digital model of your product using MapleSim system-level components. - Calculate with Ease
Leverage the simplicity and flexibility of Maple Flow to handle complex calculations throughout the process. - Adopt Virtual Testing
Use your digital model to validate physical prototypes, control code, and product enhancements. - Leverage Expertise
Utilize Maplesoft’s full-service solutions to integrate real-time data and comprehensively optimize your project’s Digital Twin.
Transform Your Engineering Workflow
Harness Maple Flow’s intuitive canvas and MapleSim’s advanced simulations to innovate, optimize, and streamline your design process.
Maple Flow redefines how engineers perform and document complex calculations. Place math, text, images/solution, and plots on the freeform interface, and seamlessly rearrange them with a simple drag-and-drop.
- Freeform Interface: Unleash your engineering creativity in a workspace that acts like an intuitive pen and a blank paper.
- Effortless Equation Entry: Seamlessly integrate calculations with text, images/solution, and plots, fostering a dynamic environment for brainstorming.
- Automatic Updates: Say goodbye to error-prone manual updates. Any changes made to your calculations automatically cascade throughout the document, ensuring consistent and reliable results.
- Clear Communication: Present your ideas with clarity and impact. Maple Flow delivers a clean, uncluttered workspace that showcases your work beautifully.
MapleSim accelerates your product development with its flexible, advanced and multidomain simulation and modeling environment. Create detailed virtual prototypes for domains like mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, thermal and so on.
- Reduce Development Time: Quickly build and refine virtual prototypes, accelerating your design cycle.
- Explore Design Variations: Test a multitude of design configurations within the safe, virtual environment of MapleSim.
- Optimize Performance: Identify and address potential performance issues before they become costly real-world problems.
- Diagnose Real-world Issues: Use MapleSim models to replicate and troubleshoot malfunctions in existing machines.
Future-Proofing Design Engineering with a Digital Twin
Virtual prototyping with MapleSim is more economical and flexible than traditional physical prototypes.
Virtual commissioning speeds up PLC code validation and minimizes the risk of damaging the hardware.
Continuous insights from digital twins improve product iteration and efficiency, accelerating time to market.
Break down data clusters, integrating historical and real-time data across your enterprise.
Digital twins identify sustainability opportunities and risks across the value chain.
Real-World Impact of Maple-Powered Digital Twins
What if your digital twin could not only mimic the present reality, but also predict its future? This is where cutting-edge technology
meets the power of engineering foresight.
Experiment early with design concepts using dynamic behavior models for powerful insights and informed decision-making.
Predict steady-state and transient loads on actuators before the first build to prevent failure and avoid over-engineering.
Simulate the Digital Twin alongside the real machine to identify potential issues as the machine’s response deviates with age.
Use calculated properties as inputs to the control system, replacing faulty sensors or eliminating them to reduce costs.
Determine maintenance schedules by assessing the impact of dynamic loading on components through a Digital Twin.
Answer key performance questions, such as operational speed and load capacity, without reverting to engineering, fostering innovation.
Qualify customer specifications and validate machine performance under various conditions without full engineering consultations.
Take the First Step Towards Design Engineering Excellence!
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