Technically possible?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nAs a rule, research projects target a complex technology domain for Simcenter customers. These customers usually face challenges with industrial product design engineering processes. The primary goal tends to be developing new simulation and test solutions and proving technology ability. The end goal, in many cases, is a path to technology commercialization<\/a>. Or in other words, creating technology that ends up in a product on the market. This, as one can imagine, can take a while. (For example, one of the principle projects DEMETRA, that we\u2019ll talk about here, started in 2014.)<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe real digital twin action is in research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSo it seems, the real digital twin action, one might argue, is in research. Now, this isn\u2019t a surprise to me since I have always enjoyed checking in with the researchers at Simcenter<\/a>. One project that caught my eye a few years ago was DEMETRA<\/a>. (DEMETRA stands for Design of Mechanical Transmissions: Efficiency, Noise and Durability Optimization.) It was an EC Marie Curie project coordinated by the University of Calabria (UNICAL) in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Looking](\"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/07\/Digitaltwintestrig-1024x768.jpg\")
Taking a look at validation results in Simcenter <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAlthough the DEMETRA project formally ended in 2017, the research work continued via the ECO-Powertrain project, funded by VLAIO<\/a>. As one can imagine, many researchers were involved along the way. Today, Ali Rezayat, a Research Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software in Leuven, Belgium, and Cristian Enrico Capalbo, a visiting PhD student from the University of Calabria, have recently wrapped up the digital twin and algorithm validation parts. We caught up with them to talk about the experimental validation of composite gears and digital twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut first, a bit of background<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nFrom the start in 2014, the basic goal of DEMETRA was to study promising state-of-the-art modeling methods for transmission subsystems. The focus was mainly gears and bearings. The idea was to analyze and optimize a mechanical transmission as a complete coupled dynamic system. Over a four-year period, researchers used a systematic approach to develop advanced simulation methods and digital twins, supported by experimental validation using Simcenter solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The real digital twin action is in research<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nSo it seems, the real digital twin action, one might argue, is in research. Now, this isn\u2019t a surprise to me since I have always enjoyed checking in with the researchers at Simcenter<\/a>. One project that caught my eye a few years ago was DEMETRA<\/a>. (DEMETRA stands for Design of Mechanical Transmissions: Efficiency, Noise and Durability Optimization.) It was an EC Marie Curie project coordinated by the University of Calabria (UNICAL) in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nTaking a look at validation results in Simcenter <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAlthough the DEMETRA project formally ended in 2017, the research work continued via the ECO-Powertrain project, funded by VLAIO<\/a>. As one can imagine, many researchers were involved along the way. Today, Ali Rezayat, a Research Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software in Leuven, Belgium, and Cristian Enrico Capalbo, a visiting PhD student from the University of Calabria, have recently wrapped up the digital twin and algorithm validation parts. We caught up with them to talk about the experimental validation of composite gears and digital twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut first, a bit of background<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nFrom the start in 2014, the basic goal of DEMETRA was to study promising state-of-the-art modeling methods for transmission subsystems. The focus was mainly gears and bearings. The idea was to analyze and optimize a mechanical transmission as a complete coupled dynamic system. Over a four-year period, researchers used a systematic approach to develop advanced simulation methods and digital twins, supported by experimental validation using Simcenter solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the DEMETRA project formally ended in 2017, the research work continued via the ECO-Powertrain project, funded by VLAIO<\/a>. As one can imagine, many researchers were involved along the way. Today, Ali Rezayat, a Research Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software in Leuven, Belgium, and Cristian Enrico Capalbo, a visiting PhD student from the University of Calabria, have recently wrapped up the digital twin and algorithm validation parts. We caught up with them to talk about the experimental validation of composite gears and digital twins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From the start in 2014, the basic goal of DEMETRA was to study promising state-of-the-art modeling methods for transmission subsystems. The focus was mainly gears and bearings. The idea was to analyze and optimize a mechanical transmission as a complete coupled dynamic system. Over a four-year period, researchers used a systematic approach to develop advanced simulation methods and digital twins, supported by experimental validation using Simcenter solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nBut first, a bit of background<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n