ESI SYSWELD 2021

From Weld Quality to Body Manufacturing & Distortion Engineering, ESI SYSWELD offers a unique computer-aided assessment of material characteristics, residual stresses and distortions by taking into account all the multi-physics that is involved in Welding, Assembly and Heat Treatment manufacturing processes:

for process feasibility and material characteristic control

for process security and product performance improvement

for car body manufacturing and distortion control

ESI SYSWELD 2021.0 includes:

Welding Simulation: Visual-Weld 17.0 and SYSWELD Solvers 2021.0

Heat Treatment Simulation: Visual-HT 17.0 and SYSWELD Solvers 2021.0

Assembly Simulation: Visual-Assembly 17.0 and Virtual Assembly Solver (CSM) 2021.0:

1-Body manufacturing for auto industry

2-Distortion engineering on large welded assembly

Highlights of ESI SYSWELD:

Visual Weld and HT:

Fast, intuitive and easy-to-use welding and heat treatment simulation tool which covers all activities of the welding & heat treatment engineer. Some key new functionalities of version 2021.0 are:  

Direct generation of result file in erf format from transient file

Hybrid SMP and DMP method for CAFE2G Grain modeling in Visual Weld

Restart SMP and DMP performance improvement

FAST3D method to boost the welding computation performance

Nodal thermal contact CNTN available in DMP in Sysweld solver

Visual Assembly:

New generation, easy-to-use assembly simulation to ensure dimension accuracy “distortion control” of assemblies which:

Covers complete car body manufacturing chain starting from the stamped part to pre-positioning to holding/clamping and finally welding/joining. Inheriting details of the “as manufactured” components from the press shop, visual assembly simulates step by step the entire assembly and welding process chain in the body shop.

Covers large welded assemblies with thick plates and multi-pass welds, which are common in the shipbuilding industry. Aimed at shop floor production, the software can deliver the optimization of a weld sequence plan thanks to a streamlined and intuitive interface, offering dedicated automatic meshing functionalities and easy model set-up.

Some key new functionalities of version 2021.0 are: 

Weld Sequence Optimization based on several robots

Use of CATGEN file for any import/export of results file

Spot Welding Creation based on 4 sheets