Title:Optimized Product Development by means of Customized Simulation Tools - Theory and PracticeAuthor(s):Herbert Hinterleitner, Stefan Dierneder, Karl LadnerAbstract:Simulation-Driven Product Development has become a key factor in achieving success in a highly competitive marketplace. Employing new simulation technologies in the earliest stages of design has become indispensable to reduce development cycles and to lower costs. However, the geometric complexity and advanced physics involved present some of the most challenging CAE problems facing engineers today. Market pressure to create innovative products in less time emphasizes the need to carry out more advanced simulations, faster than ever before. For this, a customization of the according simulation models and tools becomes more and more important. Of sure, the integrative design and customization is nothing really new and partly already content of engineers’ daily work. But our experience has shown that until now, a really extensive integration and customization for product development only has been done for mathematical quite simple relationship. That is why one objective of this paper is also pointing out the reasonability of an extensive integrative product design with all its modeling and simulation possibilities and its customization for systems and products only can be described with extensive and non-linear models, too.Booktitle:The 17th International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED 2009Editor(s):Stanford Univeristy, California, USAISBN:978-1-904670-16-2Page Reference:8 page(s)Publishing:8/2009