DENSO Partners with Sorbonne University to Accelerate FreeFEM Simulation and Streamline Industrial Product Manufacturing on Rescale
Company Size
1,000+
Region
- Asia
Country
- Japan
Product
- Rescale ScaleX
- FreeFEM
- TANATLOC
Tech Stack
- Cloud Computing
- Simulation Software
- Finite Element Method
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Digital Twin / Simulation
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries
- Automotive
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Use Cases
- Digital Twin
- Predictive Maintenance
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
- Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
DENSO is a leading automotive and Fortune 500 company that operates globally in 35 countries and regions around the world. The company manufactures a wide variety of components and is also working to industrialize smart agriculture using factory automation and sensing technologies. Within the thermal management systems team, a core business at DENSO, new initiatives are underway to respond to electric vehicles and automated driving. The Heat Exchanger R&D Division, which develops heat exchangers used in air conditioners and radiators, key components of thermal systems, is championing the development and promotion of simulation methods and tools.
The Challenge
DENSO, a leading automotive and Fortune 500 company, operates globally in 35 countries and regions around the world and manufactures a wide variety of components. In its non-automotive business, DENSO is working to industrialize smart agriculture using factory automation and sensing technologies. Within the thermal management systems team, a core businesses at DENSO, new initiatives are underway to respond to electric vehicles and automated driving. Product development for thermal systems in electric vehicles involves the development of a key element of the thermal system, the product development in the thermal systems requires unconventional technologies and methods. It is essential to consider a variety of factors when undertaking new designs. Because of the limitations of manual checking through prototyping, simulation is becoming even more important to improve development efficiency. Mr. Ogawa has championed the development and promotion of simulation methods and tools in the Heat Exchanger R&D Division, which develops heat exchangers used in air conditioners and radiators, key components of thermal systems, and he describes the difficulties of utilizing simulation.
The Solution
In 2017, DENSO's Heat Exchanger R&D Division selected Rescale and began to implement it, following necessary security checks and setting up their existing software licenses in a license server on Rescale ScaleX. DENSO’s engineering and IT teams leaned on the support of Rescale and its partners to arrange documentation to ensure compliance with the automotive industry association’s guidelines for the use of cloud services, as well as to develop the network and data security. The Heat Exchanger Development Division provided one hour of education to designers on Rescale ScaleX, with overseas members participating online. The system can be easily operated with a web browser, so once mastered, all development members are using it without any problems. In 2019, DENSO chose to pursue the use a culmination of many open-source software for large-scale parallel calculations and without licensing costs. The Heat Exchanger R&D Division collaborated with Dr. Atsushi Suzuki of Cybermedia Center, Osaka University, Japan to conduct simulations using an open-source software for finite element method, FreeFEM, which is developed and maintained by the J.-L. Lions Laboratory at the Sorbonne University, France.
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