Software Integrated Solution for Design Optimization of Industrial Devices

There is a strong requirement within industrial environment for software integrated solutions for the design based on optimization that present a design engineer with little or no experience in numerical modeling with the possibility of obtaining meaningful engineering results. The core idea is to provide the user with an interface where only geometrical, material, excitation, or global field quantities are present, hiding from him the details of both the finite-element method (FEM) solution part as well as the optimization itself. Thus, a design engineer will be able to work within an environment with which he is highly familiar, and concentrate on the engineering task instead of the numerical intricacies. To exemplify, we have chosen a simple device, developed a driving application for the FEM field solver, identified meaningful parameters and then searched for suitable optimization procedures that we then coupled with the driving application.