Hi guys so today I am going to speak about different tools we use in the industry so i am receiving so many doubts regarding the tools particularly in aerospace and mechanical industries we have so many tools available in the industry but there are some advantages in some tools and there are some disadvantages in some designing tools.
Based on that and by taking budget also in the considerations so different industries they will use you let me explain what are the major tools we have in the industries right now so the first and most important tool for the aerospace engineering is Catia V5 or V6 and after that we have solid work, solid edge and of course AutoCAD and Autodesk inventor and Creo, pro-e and Uni graphics/Nx and these are the major tools we use in the industry.
For the designing or concept building and for different purposes we use these tools and there is something called computational analysis for computations and for analysis and for all those stuff and for that purpose we use ANSYS and Hype mesh these are the major tools these days but we do have a lot of tools called Nastran and pattern and abacus as well.
So let's go in the industry-wise and let's see what tool we use generally and why they will use it but we have to remember one thing we are not sure that like they should use only this tool it is not going to work out like that they might use different tools for different purposes so let's say let's start with the aerospace industry.
So if you see aerospace industry so the body creation and everything it should be well streamlined so it should be very smooth so those kind of surface smoothness we cannot get by using part modeling or any other solid modelling so the main requirement for aerospace industries is surface design and sheet metal design it doesn't mean that they don't use part modeling or assembly model they do they but the main concentration will be in the surfacing and sheet metal area for aerospace industries so you know like in aerospace industry these days Catia and Uni graphics we use currently in the industries it depends upon the company so mostly whether Catia or Uni graphics they use.
If we move to mechanical industry side mechanical industry includes lot of industries like automotive oil and Gas and heavy industry so let's see these three industries so if you see automotive industry here also like transportation industry we can say right so to create Car like the surfaces outer surfaces we use surface design from Uni graphics or Catia or we will use the solid works also But one disadvantage is let me go back a bit about Catia so one disadvantage in Catia is like the license cost is very high usually the small-scale industries they cannot afford like there are around 100 plus modules available in Catia but you know like most of the industries they use only few Modules.
So they will purchase only for one or two modules most of the cases three to four modules so that they can customize the license cost if you see because aerospace industry is a very big industry and the kind of expenditure the kind of investment is high so that they can afford these kind of tools.
If we go to automotive industry in mechanical side so they do use Catia and UG for their surfacing needs but most of the times they concentrate on Creo/pro-e so that is that license cost is a bit less than the Catia and some of the industries they use solid works as well so these are the medium scale industries even the oil and gas industry also solid works and uh Autodesk inventor because part modeling and assembly design and drafting they are the main and basic important needs for oil and gas industry so that is the reason they go for solid works.
we have seen automotive industry and we have seen oil and gas industry and if we go with high-tech industry so the high-tech industry like their major needs are like part modeling, assembling and drafting right so for these things they also looks into Autodesk inventor proe or solid works but they don't go for Catia because they cannot afford for that license cost and yeah these are the design tools available in the industries right now means they are the biggest tools in industry so far if we see at this Moment.
Analysis side you know for finite element method any industry whether it is aerospace, Oil and gas, automotive or heavy industry so their main concentration will be on Ansys and Hyper mesh so there we have lot of modules available in Ansys and hyper mess for different industries not only related to one industry so if you see aerospace industry in Ansys we have a lot of application called fluent so which can be used for the computational fluid dynamics and for structural analysis we have a lot of modules like static structural, Dynamics and thermal analysis and all those stuff so that can be used for different purposes and even some of the cfd we can solve the oil and gas problems as well.
Automotive industries like have dynamic problems and everything we can solve in LS dyna from Hype mesh like mainly we use for the meshing purpose and later we use some solvers from different developers and later we'll use some other tools called Post Processors to see the results and all those stuff but it doesn't mean that there are no other tools there are tools but you know in terms of efficiency if we speak i have worked on Ansys and hyper mess i feel like these tools are like more efficient and in another end we have Ns Nastran so some of the aerospace industries and other industries they use these tools as well for the finite element method.
These are the tools used in design and manufacturing and engineering drawings creation and finite element methods right so there are so many add-ins available for these things to see the failures and we can integrate those Extensions to the tools, you guys can see once you guys enter into the industries there will be small modules add-ins we can purchase and we can integrate to these tools so that our workflow will be easy so there are so many that kind of tool some of the companies they'll develop their own add-ins and they'll add to their tools so that it will be easy for them to predict the failures and all in the Design Phase Itself right.
There is one more thing we have to understand from the industry is like by using these tools we can create a product right but how we can manage with the product data right, let's say the product data in the sense like how the manufacturing should be done and what are the instructions available and what is the process like how we can maintain the manufacturing process, Materials to be used, BoM,s (Bill Of Materials) for the assemblies, Plant Details and all so for all of these we have something called Product Data Management(PDM) tools or PLM (Product Life Cycle Management) tools.
Product data management and another one called PLM product life cycle management so if you just search in google you will get it like from catia developers that is Dassault Systems we have Enovia and from siemens they have another tool called Team center and from creo developers we have Windchill so these are called product data management or product life cycle management tools and SAP will be used as ERP(Enter Prize Resource Plan) so these tools help us a lot in the manufacturing process guys.
I Hope you guys have a little bit idea on the different tools used in different industries why they will use it so the main classification is Catia licensed cost is high and these UG and solid works, Autodesk inventor, AutoCAD and creo these license cost is little low so that the small scale industries can use it.
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