Simulation tools range expanded

Paul Boughton

Romax Technology, a leading transmission and driveline simulation company, is enhancing its product portfolio with the launch of a number of new releases. Currently used by 14 of the world’s top 15 car manufacturers, RomaxDESIGNER is the company’s flagship product providing design, analysis and optimisation for systems incorporating gears, shafts and bearings.

The main enhancement delivered with RomaxDESIGNER 14.6 is customised reporting incorporating a flexible drag-and-drop report builder and the flexibility to create customised extensive reports. Report design templates can be saved and are reusable and sharable. The solution also allows intelligent grouping, filtering and formatting of data. These features will save time and reduce errors during the design process by limiting the amount of further post-processing that users have to do to generate reports.

Simon White, RomaxDESIGNER product manager commented: “This new report-generating functionality enables users to get results that are customised to support their internal reporting processes. It means clients can drastically reduce the amount of data manipulation and get the key results they need in minutes not days.”

This is accompanied by a new version of Concept (release R3.0), which includes improved gear design capability and improved modelling of synchronisers and planetary gear sets. Concept offers rapid modelling and analysis of transmissions and drivelines for gear design, system layout design and component sizing and rating.  

Romax’s CAD Fusion (release R1.1), which brings seamless integration with CAD tools for improved modelling efficiency, robustness and collaboration is also benefiting from new important features for those who work with 2D CAD models. The new release of CAD Fusion allows intelligent importing of 2D CAD drawings to reduce modelling time and errors.

These upgrades will further help users of Romax’s suite of software tools in supporting a ‘right first time’ product development process, ultimately leading to faster time-to-market and improved product quality.