HPC-based design of non-circular gears
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Non-Circular Gears generate a prescribed motion with great precision. Designing these gears is a complex process that requires a lot of expertise and expensive, computationally intensive iterations. A cloud-based engineering workflow would shorten the time required to design and deliver an NCG.
Start date: 01/11/2015
Duration in months: 18
Problem Description
Non-Circular Gears generate a prescribed motion with great precision. This is a highly desirable feature in advanced transmissions. Designing these gears is a complex process that requires a significant amount of expertise and expensive, computationally intensive iterations.
Goals
Reduce time to solution
Challenges
In-house computing systems are not powerful enough to perform these calculations. A cloud-based engineering workflow would significantly shorten the time required to design and deliver an NCG. A key element of this is cost-effective access to the necessary computing power.
Innovation results
The partners developed an HPC-based engineering workflow for NCG design. The workflow, CloudGear, allows STAM to optimise the design of an NCG in less than 3 minutes, providing fast feedback concerning potential modifications and improvements.
Business impact
CloudGear workflow allows customers to design better NCG-based solutions at lower costs. Five potential customers of CloudGear have already been identified, giving a potential increment of the annual turnover of the 20%. Noesis will benefit from increased sales of its Optimus software.