HxGN Virtual Manufacturing

Perform quick feasibility studies of sheet metal parts during the design phase to enhance designs for manufacturability (DFM) quality. The forming solution streamlines the forming process by eliminating re-work and reducing engineering changes after part design release. It also provides fast and accurate estimations of blank shapes and springback for sheet metal components, improving the part’s overall efficiency.

Cost Engineering
Define target costs early in the design phase through a realistic stamping cost engineering analysis. Manufacturers and engineers can effectively derive should-cost scenarios, improve overall material utilisation, and reduce vehicle weight and tooling development time.

Process Planning / Technical Planning
Develop a detailed process plan for quoting & estimating from your 3D CAD (Computer Aided Design) design. Generate realistic images for each die operation. This scientific and data-driven approach empowers cost and design engineers to derive fast and accurate quoting and estimating processes and technical planning.

Virtual Process Validation
Perform quick virtual try-outs of stamping and assembly processes and identify issues before tooling kick-off to reduce costs and time-to-market while improving product quality. The 3D explicit incremental analysis provides a complete virtual die development and try-out for tool and die makers.

Be it forging, rolling, extrusion or other methods, bulk forming is an indispensable production technology that many products rely on. Given the influence of temperature, material flow and permanent deformation, our advanced simulation is necessary to effectively establish and control the process effectively.

Cold & Hot Forging
Enhance your cold and hot forging processes with our advanced simulation tools. Our software accurately models and simulates both techniques, enabling you to optimise manufacturing processes, predict defects, and improve tooling designs. Visualise material flow and temperature distribution for superior results.

Incremental Forming
Our advanced software offers precise modelling and simulation capabilities for incremental forming processes, enabling you to optimise your manufacturing operations. Visualise and analyse material flow, tooling interaction, and deformation throughout the incremental forming process. By virtually fine-tuning process parameters and evaluating tool designs, you can enhance efficiency, predict potential defects, and achieve superior quality in your formed components.

Heat Treatment
Transform your heat treatment processes with our powerful modelling and simulation capabilities, enabling you to optimise thermal processes and predict material behaviour. Visualise temperature distribution and residual stresses during heat treatment. With our solution, you can fine-tune process parameters, optimise cycle times, and ensure the desired material properties and microstructures are achieved.

Joining parts is a fundamental aspect of manufacturing, and a reliable and stable process is key for achieving high-quality parts. Simulation plays a vital role in optimising this process, leading to improved quality, cost reduction, and the maintenance of a robust assembly process.

Arc Welding
Optimise your welding processes with our advanced welding simulation tool. Our software accurately replicates the melting and fusion of metal parts, allowing you to assess weld bead formation, residual stresses, and distortion. The solution facilitates refining welding parameters, identifying defects, and ensuring structural integrity before fabrication. Reduce the need for physical try-outs, save time and costs while maintaining quality.

Spot Welding
Experience the power of spot welding simulation with our advanced software. Replicate localised heating and pressure, evaluate weld quality, and optimise processes. Fine-tune parameters, assess defects, and enhance spot weld design. Drive efficiency and excellence in your manufacturing process with our trusted solutions.

Mechanical Joining
Our advanced software accurately models and simulates various mechanical joining techniques such as riveting, bolting, and clinching. By virtually replicating the joining process, our tool enables you to reduce efforts, predict joining characteristics, and evaluate the overall performance of your mechanical connections.

Use our state-of-the-art AM simulation software to evaluate part geometry and processing strategies, in order to predict and mitigate risk of failures and dimensional non-conformance. Perform geometry compensation so that parts distort into tolerance during the AM process. We help the AM industry overcome the AM obstacles and achieve first-time-right printing.

Generative Design
Experience our highly automated geometry optimisation design solution for creating designs perfectly adapted to additive manufacturing. Quickly generate lightweight, manufacturing-ready designs to reduce weight, production runtime and material consumption.

Metal Additive Manufacturing
Be it Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF), Metal Binder Jetting (MBJ) or Direct Energy Deposition (DED), our software solution is designed to predict and compensate for distortion, compute residual stress and analyse temperature distribution throughout the printing process. It extends to include heat treatment, cutting, hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and machining processes. For MBJ it can predict changes during the sintering process and compensating for shrinking. For DED our solution can analyse the coupled thermal-mechanical response within the process and investigate phase transformations during cooling. Overall, it empowers users to industrialise this advanced technology.

Polymer Additive Manufacturing
We offer a dedicated solution for plastics and composite materials to overcome manufacturing issues through warpage compensation. Additionally, sensitivity analyses allow to assess the effect of process parameters on the prediction of warpage, residual stresses, temperature fields, crystallinity evolutions, layer adhesion, porosity and many more to optimise the productivity and the quality of the printed parts.

Our generative design technology enables the free-flowing optimisation of ideas and feasible design possibilities through an almost fully automated optimisation process. It generates lightweight and manufacturing-ready results that save precious resources while ensuring high part performance.

Support Structure Reduction for AM
Designing for additive manufacturing involves minimising the number for support structures. Our generative design technology can optimise components by adapting the geometry to reduce the requirement for support structures. This results in cost reduction and enhanced component quality.