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Company:
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Glatt GmbH Ingenieurtechnik
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City / Country:
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Weimar / Germany
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Website:
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www.glatt-weimar.de
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Industry:
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Processing Plants / Process Engineering
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Products:
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Granulators, Agglomerating Plants, Coating und Drying, Plant Design, Engineering as well as Product Development
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Customers:
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Companies from all industries (Chemical, Food, Detergents, Pharmaceutical, etc.)
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Use EFD.Lab since:
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September 2002
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1. Purchase Decision:
Why did you choose to buy EFD.Lab - what were the problems that required the use of this type of tool?
- Geometric design of machinery with respect to gas distribution
- Pressure-drop-simulation
- Estimation of temperature- and velocity distribution
- Development of prototypes (reduction of the number of tests and thereby costs- and time savings)
Prior to EFD.Lab, did your company have any experience using Computational Fluid Dynamics software?
- Only FEA calculations in 2D (COSMOS/M with limited number of nodes)
Which Tools did you use for fluid analysis and/or how were the required information and results acquired?
- FEA not used any more (stopped approximately 4 years ago), too time consuming and not precise enough
- CFD-calculations for specific tasks assigned to external suppliers
- Apart from that use of prototypes
- Transfer of model results on the basis of experience
What were the most important reasons for purchasing EFD.Lab?
- Know-how should remain in-house (problem secrecy)
- Favourable situation, because client ordered special machines and it was not possible to build prototypes
- Increased cost- and time pressure and therefore need for optimization
- Attractive, user friendly combination of geometry design and fluid analysis
- Price- / performance ratio
- Ease of use
- Service from NIKA
2. EFD.Lab Application
Who or which function uses EFD.Lab at the company?
Please choose all the functions that apply: Designer, Developer,
Research Engineer, Application Engineer, etc. ?
- Application takes place in division process engineering / research & development
- Users are solely process engineers / research engineers (prototyping)
How do you work with the system? (Procedure)
- Concept designs are made in Process Engineering Dept.
- Draft geometry design created EFD.Lab
- Fluid analysis and assessment of results made in Process Engineering Dept., including optimisation if required
- If decision for realization is made, geometries / results are handed over to design Dept.
and are there processed further on in AutoCAD
- During design process regular checks of the design Dept. with EFD.Lab,
if the geometry had been changed for technical reasons (iterative process)
- Final classification of the geometry into company standard i.e. no variant possible
any more on lay-out and fluid analysis only in case of special requirement (by cloning of projects)
Which functions are the most useful??
- Solid modeler functions are integrated into EFD.Lab
- Automatic mesh generation as first „Starter point“
- Combination of fluid dynamics with thermal processes
- Use of parametric geometry (Use of Excel)
- Report generation and display of results
- Cloning of projects
3. Experiences, Advantages, Benefit
What do you like most about EFD.Lab?
- Ease of use
- Price- / performance ratio
Which competitive advantages are transparent? (Time to Market, RoI, Product Quality)
- Security and trust of customers are growing
- Design cycles have been shortened distinctly
- Results of EFD.Lab support marketing through a clear presentation of process conditions / product
How do you estimate the costs (Maintenance, Training, etc.) for EFD.Lab?
- Are as usual
- Training classes are held very flexible and client oriented
Please advise on the state of Service received from NIKA (Support, Updates)?
- Very satisfied
- Fast and uncomplicated support
How do you judge user satisfaction?
- Software is well accepted (which is not always the case) and is used with pleasure, which means: satisfaction is very high
4. How do you see EFD.Lab in comparison to other computational fluid systems on the market?
- Functionality is very good
- NIKA does not promise too much
- Common methods exist for the „normal-user“
- Ease of use is above average
5. Other Comments
- Integrated back-up function for more convenient data back-up recommended
- Report documentation should include times required for modeling and computing
(Gives an estimation about how many hours a user needs and how many hours the computer is blocked.)
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