IK4-Ikerlan reinforces his bet by the technology Ansys like formula for the innovation

The wide base of knowledges, his experience accumulated in more than 30 years and his multidisciplinaridad, reflected in a big quantity of departments of the most miscellaneous disciplines, contributes them competitiveness and allows them offer an integral service to all the customers that arrive to his offices with new projects of R&D. “We can help to our customer in all the phases by which has to happen his idea of product until arriving to market, and from the most miscellaneous fields as they can be the mechanics, electronics equipment dealers equipment dealers of power, control, communications and technologies software… Anyway, allows us realise an integral development of the product”, explains Xabier Sagartzazu, boss of the department of mechanical engineering of IK4-Ikerlan.

IK4-Ikerlan was pioneering in the use of simulation with finite elements in Spain and, after 25 years of investigation and conjoint work with Ansys, keeps in the avant-garde of the design of products thanks to his continuous investment in R&D, what has allowed him develop projects for leading customers like Alstom and Orona.

To offer the best quality, in IK4-Ikerlan carry 25 years trusting the technology of Ansys, specialist in simulation for the engineering. The simulation for the engineering consists in the application of tools of software to the process of design, allowing test virtually the operational performance of existent designs or potentials for products or processes. This knowledge allows to the engineers optimise quickly products and processes, accelerating the time of design and development, reducing costs and contributing to the efficiency of the product.

In concrete, use the technology of Ansys in structural calculations (calculation of structures with extreme loads, calculations of life or fatigue of the product, implementation of models of progressive damage in composites…) to confront of form more economic and simple to the structural calculation of big dimensions that require the analyses of the designs of machinery of high weight and difficult manoeuvrability. “When we choose Ansys looked for a tool that allowed us work with more casuística. We value the politics of purchase and of acquisition/rent in the use of the licences and his experience”, indicates Xabier Sagartzazu. “We are very satisfied with this tool. Really it allows to our customers advance more quickly in his projects, without having to produce physical prototypes, neither have to have surroundings of proof that increase his time and costs of development”.

Thanks to the possibility to simulate a complete product from the start of the phase of design, can tackle more quickly and with better decisions informed the most likely causes of failures in the design, even before this was finished, and do changes within a matter of minutes. Besides, when can predict all type of interactions, offer greater information that the proofs with real prototypes. “We can realise previous analysis in finite elements and see if the product goes to fail in any point of his behaviour. Can face a process of development and manufacture having guaranteeed and ensured that the final piece goes to surpass the essays is very important, and this is what offers us the technology of Ansys”, ensures Xabier Sagartzazu.

To the equal that IK4-Ikerlan, every time are more the companies of engineering that use software of simulation for the design of products or the development of industrial processes. They attain to be faster that the competition optimising the processes of development and manufacture. They can predict and analyse the behaviour of the product in all his cycle of life from the phase of design and evaluate greater number of iteraciones or reduce proofs with physical prototypes, what shortens the time of put in the market, in addition to allowing significant improvements in the final product, benefiting clearly to the company.

In words of Gilles Lebiez, director of Ansys for Spain and Portugal, “the tools of software of simulation of Ansys are offering to the world of the engineering a new Renaissance for the design of the products. Simulating all the strengths that take part in the behaviour of a product (structural pressesures, thermal sensors, dynamic, flowed…) achieve to contribute valuable information to the engineers to attain products more reliable, developed with materials more sustainable, with a lower cost and in less time, and influencing of decisive way in the business of our customers”.

The software of simulation of Ansys allows to observe no only the global result of the machine, but the interaction between his different parts much more easily and of form more exact, minimising like this the high costs of manufacture, the investment of time and the risks of the physical phenomena that involves the production of physical prototypes.