Romax Designer 14.5.rar
Mirtha Shikles
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Hexagon just announced that it will acquire Romax Technology Limited, maker of the Romax Nexus suite of solutions for concept design, durability, NVH and other simulations for electromechanical drivetrain design and simulation. Nexus is a cloud-enabled model-based systems engineering (MBSE) platform, on which designers and engineers collaborate to optimize both the electrical and mechanical components of a gearbox or drivetrain to boost overall effectiveness.
Hexagon CEO Ola Rolln said that "The acquisition of Romax Technology enables us to meet the growing need for electrification, providing our customers with integrated tools that empower engineering teams to develop the next generation of energy-efficient electric vehicles. Electrification is a growing trend in automotive and aerospace but also presents new opportunities for Hexagon in the development of renewable energy systems."
And that's an interesting segue from what we typically think of: cars and planes aren't the only objects that can benefit from optimized powertrains. Romax already, according to Hexagon, serves customers in auto and aero, yes, but also in the wind power, marine and rail industries and, because of its presence there, has a specialization in bearing design.
Romax are pleased to announce the 2021 release of the complete Romax software suite: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve. The release sees new features across the simulation portfolio, with a particular focus on enabling our customers to democratize advanced technologies and to work in more collaborative ways.
Even though their roles greatly impact each other, existing gear design processes often mean disconnects between the gear manufacturer and the gear designer. The gear designer might decide on a design that performs well in simulation but cannot be manufactured to the required specification. This may mean the gear design is changed during production, which can lead to long delays and high cost, as well as differences in the expected performance for NVH, durability and efficiency.
Lubricant distribution predictions and churning loss simulations are typically not an early part of a transmission design process. This is because CFD analysis requires significant modelling and simulation time along with high levels of expertise, so is typically done when the design is finalised, or when a prototype has been manufactured. This means that problems are typically found late in the design and development process, when it is much more expensive to resolve issues.
Romax has been rapidly building on capabilities for electromechanical solutions for the last 15 years. Whilst processes are much improved, engineers still need better ways to understand the mechanical performance of electric motor early in the development process, with access to multi-fidelity simulation tools. Romax Evolve provides such a multi-fidelity environment for mechanical simulation of electric machine durability, NVH and efficiency, whilst Romax Concept is a fast simulation tool for early stage development of the complete electric drivetrain. Both tools have now gained an interface to JMAG Express, a concept-level online parametric design tool for motor electromagnetic performance. Linking these tools together provides a fast, easy workflow at the concept and sizing development stage when design iterations need to be at their most efficient. This provides an enhanced workflow integration for motor designers looking to understand motor and electric powertrain efficiency performance right from the start.
To learn more about our new features, download our flyer and register for our upcoming webinars. Users with a support account can also view an on-demand webinar showing all the key features in this release. For further information, do not hesitate to get in touch with your account manager.
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Romax software includes capabilities familiar to existing RomaxDESIGNER users as well as introducing a host of new features and new products, including: new motor design and analysis capability in Romax Evolve, advanced simulation of bearing dynamic behaviour, a new look-and-feel and work-flowed user experience, empowered by more cloud integration, and many more. For more information, please contact your Romax Account Manager, or go to romaxtech.com/software
The main objective of this paper is to introduce a solution for the current engineering challenges facing powertrain designers. This solution leverages the power of AI/ML technologies in the framework of transmission design. For this purpose, an evidence-based approach is adopted by presenting practical examples and use cases.
Gear design begins in Romax Concept, which offers fast early stage design, sizing and rating. Gears can be represented as 1) loading gears, for fast design iteration of ratios and layouts while providing essential system loads without needing detailed geometry, 2) concept gears, for selection of module and tooth number combinations, and 3) detailed gears, with full macro-geometry parameters. The automated gear set designer can be used to search the gear geometry design space, and score candidate designs using user-specified and weighted criteria. Each candidate can be examined and easily swapped into the system design, viewing life prediction and rating for constant feedback on the design feasibility.
Founded over 25 years ago by world-renowned leading bearing expert Dr. Peter Poon, Romax Technology offers engineering consultancy services as well as a software simulation suite for the design, analysis and optimisation of gearbox, bearings and driveline systems. RomaxDesigner sits at the heart of the software product suite, and enables complete system simulation from a concept to a detailed development stage. With analysis and optimisation capabilities for durability, efficiency and NVH, RomaxDesigner aims to provide a single solution to a multitude of industry problems.
Because of the whole-system approach, all component interactions are taken into account so that all correct misalignments are calculated and their effect accounted for. The complex impact that components such as shafts and bearings have on the whole system are included in the model with non-linear, load-dependent stiffnesses. This analysis provides reliable and accurate results, which can be used either to improve existing designs or to create new designs to high quality specifications from the start.
RomaxDesigner sits in the heart of the Romax software suite, and is supported at both ends of the process by the rest of its product family: Concept, CAD Fusion and Dynamic Fusion. Concept allows for multiple designs to be tested out at an early stage in an intuitive, drag and drop interface with powerful analysis capabilities. Models can be transferred from Concept into RomaxDesigner (or RomaxWind) when you are ready to add more detail and perform more advanced analyses. In order to import or export components between CAD packages and Romax software, in order to speed up the modelling process and perform packaging checks, CAD Fusion provides an intelligent interface allowing you to transfer the components with the appropriate level of detail. Once a model has been created in either Concept or RomaxDesigner, Dynamic Fusion can be used to automatically generate a multibody dynamic model for use in Adams software or Modelica-compliant programs.
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