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 2017.5 includes:

• Welding Simulation: Visual-Weld 13.5.1 and SYSWELD Solvers 2017.5
• Heat Treatment Simulation: Visual-HT 13.5.1 and SYSWELD Solvers 2017.5
• Assembly Simulation: Visual-Assembly 13.5.1 and CSM Solvers 2017.5 for Assembly, for distortion control in
  • Body manufacturing for auto industry

  • Thick plate and large welded assemblies for shipbuilding

  • Welding Sequence Optimization with help of PAM-OPT 2018.0 Beta

Highlights of ESI SYSWELD:

Visual Weld and Heat Treatment:

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

• Modeling of variable weld speed for better prediction of the weld pool
• IT and CCT diagram automatic calibration: accurate prediction of phase transformation
• Time dependency for diffusion coefficient during carburization process
• Friction stir welding: accurate prediction of heat input due to mechanical dissipation
• Heat treatment – machining chaining solution based on material removal
• Strong thermal mechanical coupling for large model management

Visual Assembly:

New generation, easy-to-use assembly simulation for distortion control which:

• Covers complete 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 the entire assembly and welding process chain in the body shop; step by step.                                                             
• Presents new developments for 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.

Please check ESI SYSWELD 2017.5 Release Notes and Visual-Environment 13.5 Release Notes for more details.