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New Year
Greetings from
Japan
with best wishes from Akiko Kondoh
It has been a great pleasure to launch
the Japan Column in 2009. Sometimes
inspiration is needed for product
design and manufacturing. The same
is true for CAE. I hope that the new
encounter in the EnginSoft Newsletter, between Japanese and
European (CAE) cultures, creates inspiration and motivation for
2010.
In the New Year, Shogatsu is generally celebrated on the first
3 days of January. In Japan, this is the most important period
to spend with family. Osechi-ryori are special side dishes which
we enjoy on the first 3 days of the year. Osechi-ryori consist of
traditional ingredients in Japanese cuisine, all of them have
special meanings. For example, sea bream (tai) should bring
luck (medetai), herring roe (kazunoko) sends out “a wish for
prosperity to our descendants”, and sea tangle roll (kobumaki)
means “happiness” (yorokobu).
This Osechi-ryori
are arranged on
the Urushi, a
Japanese lacquer
tiered box. Urushi
is the coating
material made
from refined and
processed lacquer
tree sap. Urushi
has been used for
the last thousands of years. Indeed, Japanese lacquering
techniques had improved rapidly at a time more than 1500
years ago. The black shining Urushi became a traditional craft
and nowadays it is widely used for tableware, fine furniture and
musical instruments. Urushi is resistant to humidity, heat, acid
and alkali, but becomes depleted under extreme ultraviolet
irradiation or desiccation. This is why Urushi was not much
used for industrial products in the past. However, in recent
years, Urushi has attracted people’s attention not only in Japan
but around the world because of its unique glazing style and
excellent characteristics. Today, Urushi is applied to brand new
areas of MONODUKURI*, for example for the interior of cars and
airplanes and the exterior of various electrical products by
combining Urushi material characteristics and specific
lacquering techniques.
*MONODUKURI: Japanese for manufacturing and Japan’s spirit
for excellence in manufacturing
Newsletter EnginSoft Year 6 n°4 - 53
modeFRONTIER at the 2009
MADYMO Users Meeting in
Melbourne
EnginSoft's partner in
Australia, ADVEA
Engineering, hosted their
semi-annual event “The
2009 MADYMO Users
Meeting” in Melbourne,
Australia on the 23rd &
24th of November.
The event attracted a widerange
of engineers from the Asia Pacific region with a focus on
automotive active/passive safety, biomechanics, pedestrian
safety and DOE/optimization.
Maciej Mazur, a University Student at the School of Aerospace,
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at RMIT, The Royal
Melbourne Institute of Technology, one of Australia’s original
and leading educational institutions, presented a DOE and an
optimization study of a cast-aluminium servo motor housing.
In his presentation, Maciej detailed how he coupled
successfully modeFRONTIER with Catia and Abaqus for Catia to
optimize the housing for weight and stiffness.
For more information about this presentation and about
modeFRONTIER and CAE in Australia, feel free to contact Mr.
Ryan Adams, email: radams@advea.com, Manager ADVEA
Engineering. www.advea.com
Optimization Training Star-
CCM+ AND modeFRONTIER
in Göteborg, February 23
In cooperation with CDadapco
and FS Dynamics,
EnginSoft Nordic will
present a one-day hands-on
training on optimization
with modeFRONTIER and
Star-CCM+. This training, to
be held in Göteborg on
February 23rd 2010, will
teach how to automate and perform scripting of Star-CCM+
analyses, and how to setup an optimization together with
modeFRONTIER. After an introduction and demonstration,
training participants will be given a complete workshop to
work through on their own. As such, they are expected to bring
a laptop with Star-CCM+ for the exercises. After the workshop,
the training will conclude with a discussion and a Q&A session.
For more information, please contact Adam Thorp
at info@enginsoft.se or visit http://nordic.enginsoft.com