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

Please refer to the SYSWELD 2021.0 Release Notes for more information and to the Installation Guide for the installation of ESI SYSWELD 2021.0