What would it be worth to your business if you could predict potential failures prior to getting your product to market? How would that affect consumer perception of your product? How would less warranty claims affect your cash flow?
What if you could halve or even quarter your prototype and testing costs? How much quicker could you get to market? What impact would that have on your bottom line?
Would it be helpful for you to know if your structure or product can withstand working loadings? Will permanent deformation occur? Will buckling or vibrations ever be a problem? Can material be reduced to save costs?
FEA is a crucial step that you can easily add to your development program. It will save you time and money by highlighting problems and finding solutions during your product design phase, before any material is ordered or before you even contemplate ‘cutting steel’!
FEA can also be used to:
- check your design is on track during the design process.
- check calculations, when hand calculations are too difficult.
- optimise stress, mass, heat, etc to get the best results before the manufacturing stage of the project.
- understand structural behaviour and therefore remove uncertainty in the design phase.
Here are some FEA projects we’ve worked on:
