About THK
THK is a worldwide pioneer in the development of the Linear Motion (LM) Guide mechanism.
THK RHYTHM AUTOMOTIVE specializes in “automotive critical safety parts” which support the basic automotive functions and supply a wide variety of car products to automakers in the world.
Industrial Challenges
THK was looking for new solutions to answer their industrial challenges and especially in simulation domain.
THK fully uses all the capacities of SIMULATION portfolio with:
- Abaqus: unified FEA tool and industry leader for analysis and simulations.
- Fe-safe: technical leader in fatigue and durability analysis software for finite element models.
- Isight: used for process automation and design exploration. With Isight, you can combine multiple cross-disciplinary models together in a simulation process flow, automate their execution across distributed computing resources, explore the resulting design space, and identify the optimal design parameters subject to required constraints.
- Tosca: used for structural or fluid optimizations such as topology optimization for load path definition or sizing optimization for shell thickness reduction.
Each of these products is a piece of the portfolio. The power of the portfolio enables to solve engineering problems. Each product plays a different role in the design cycle and offers the opportunity to achieve “realistic simulations”.
We needed to accelerate the product development and cost reduction.
Johannes HAUPTMANN – CAE Engineer
Benefits
The structure consists in a tension arm. THK needs to fit different criteria to satisfy the specifications of their customer. In order to avoid iterations between CAD and STRESS services, simulation helps to find the best design as soon as possible through optimization process.
The optimization process begins during the design process. Criteria are stresses, reaction forces, plastic strains, durability… Different kinds of simulations are involved (Linear Static, Nonlinear Static and Durability Analysis). SIMULIA portfolio enable to have all the tools to achieve all kind of optimization.
KEONYS has created a methodology completely adapted to the design and simulation issues for THK.
With this process, THK accelerate the product development and reducing cost.