Abstract
As the applications implementing finite element analysis have become more powerful, the customers of these applications have turned to “process automation” and “process integration” to achieve the next level of enhanced throughput. The typical model size has increased and the rule base for effectively applying the analysis technologies has changed significantly from the early days of NASTRAN. Customer in-house software, applications that implement “best practices”, competitive advantage methodologies and the increase in distributed, multi-national engineering have vastly increased the need for companies to invest in software applications that automate processes or better integrate 3 party applications into in-house processes. In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of these open architecture process integration tools in NASTRANcentric process implementations. Archetypical applications for each class of open architecture tool are presented and the kinds of applications for which each is appropriate are discussed. To illustrate the new custom module development capabilities, we will develop and present an implementation connecting NASTRAN-xMG to a critical loads survey tool that is illustrative of the class of in-house process for which it is ideal.
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