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A-Concepts:<\/strong> Automotive Design Compliance Using Simulation in the Cloud<\/h1> <\/div> <\/div>
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A-Concepts is a specialist vehicle engineering and development consultancy that offers full design, testing, and production services for overall vehicle and component development. A-Concepts is an engineering partner with compelling solutions from concept to volume production. They advise and assist in the development of products for manufacturing in small and medium-sized projects and now also support automobile OEM suppliers of mass-produced components with interdisciplinary expertise. A core aspect of what A-Concepts does is to work with partners to design, develop, produce, and test first-of-a-kind demonstration prototypes and concept cars. This includes complete digitization of vehicle\/component design using the latest CAE and engineering simulation software and management of the entire R&D process.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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Jens Janczyk, the founder and CEO of A-Concepts, is a mechanical engineer by training and has been developing cars from scratch for customers for almost 20 years. He has developed a whole vehicle engineering approach at A-Concepts including CAD design, visualization, design testing, 3D prototyping, and whole vehicle production and safety testing. Jens has worked on some of the most high-performance race and road cars with global automobile brands including the Project 917 roadworthy race car. A-Concepts has been a SimScale user since 2017 and has consistently used FEA for structural analysis and optimization of the vehicle body, frame, wheel rims, and other components. A-Concepts would like to next venture into vehicle aerodynamics using Openfoam or the GPU-accelerated lattice-Boltzman (LBM) solver, pacefish\u00ae, both integrated into SimScale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A-Concepts switched to using SimScale from a traditional software vendor because it wanted flexible usage and pricing with access to the software from any place at any time, obviating the need for an expensive software license fixed to a particular desktop PC. Because Jens and his team are often traveling or situated at client sites, SimScale was a perfect fit and can be accessed simply on a web browser without any specific hardware requirements. The simulations are run in the cloud therefore access to powerful simulation tools has become easy and flexible. Previously, A-Concepts also relied heavily on third-party simulation service providers for advanced projects, which was time-consuming and expensive. Often, the turnaround time for a piece of analysis was prohibitive leading to project delays and overruns. The benefits of bringing simulation in-house using SimScale have been many:<\/p>\n\n\n\n