Manufacturing process simulation softwares

Numerical simulation of manufacturing process is playing an increasingly important role in companies strategy. We have listed the main softwares used in various industries (hot forging, plastic injection moulding, metal casting, additive manufacturing, welding, cold forming process, ...) plus CFD multiphysics codes and also Websites dedicated to process simulation. We hope that this list will be useful.

Injection moulding process simulation Polymer and CFRPs MOLDFLOW Flex - AutoDesk SolidWorks Plastics - SolidWorks Moldex3D - Moldex3D Rem3D - Transvalor PAM Composites - ESI MAP-3D - VMtech SIGMASOFT Virtual Molding - Sigmasoft	Casting process simulation Sand casting, high pressure die casting, gravity die casting, investment casting, ... ProCAST / QuikCAST - ESI MAGMA - MagmaSoft Flow-3D-Cast - Flow Science THERCAST - Transvalor EKKcapcast - EKK Inc SOLIDcast, FLOWcast and OPTIcast - Finite Solution Click2Cast - SolidThinking NovaFlow&Solid - NovaCast Adstefan - Hitachi STAR-Cast - CD Adapco Arena Flow WinCast expert - RWP GmbH AnyCasting - AnyCasting Software
Forging process simulation Hot forging ForgeNxT - Transvalor Simufact.forming - MSC Software Cold forming process simulation Sheet forming, .. PAM-STAMP - ESI COLDFORM - Transvalor	Microstructural and phase diagram simulation Microstructural evolution, material properties, material database, thermodynamics and phase diagram calculations, ... Thermo-Calc CES Selector - GRANTA Design DIGIMU - Transvalor Total Materia - Key to Metals AG CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) softwares Heat transfer, free surface, monophase or multiphase, particle flows, fluids interactions, combustion, multi-physics AutoDesk CFD Fluids - ANSYS Flow3D - Flow Science SimFlow CFD Fluent - ANSYS ACE+ suite and SYSTUS- ESI STAR-CCM+ - Siemens ParticleWorks - Prometech OpenFOAM FloMASTER - Mentor Graphics COMSOL Multiphysics LS-DYNA - Livermore Software Tech. Corp.
Additive manufacturing simulation SLM, EBM additive manufacturing Simufact Additive - MSC Software exaSIM - 3DSIM Netfabb - Autodesks Virfac AM - GeonX Websites and magazines Website, magazine, ..., trade fairs dedicated to simulation process softwares Society for Modeling and Simulation International journal of modeling and simulation, and scientific computing	Welding process simulation Welding and assembly processes Simufact.welding - MSC Software Welding Suite - ESI TRANSWELD - Transvalor Virfac Welding - GeonX Others Internal combustion engine, crash simulation, ... STAR-CD - Siemens (internal combustion engine-bloc) Pam-Crash - ESI (crash simulation)
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This list is not exhaustive, and things move fast enough. If you want to add your company, or specify informations, please contact the Blogmaster (with commercial software and Website link). We don't compile pure academic codes.

Comments

[SSC]

Phase Diagram and other features: http://www.computherm.com/

[Martin_S]

Hi, just wondering why LS-Dyna isn't mentioned throughout your lists?

[MERCIER]

A leader brand name is ommited in the Injection molding process list : Sigmasoft Virtual Molding

www.sigmasoft.de