Automatic Simulation Platform to Support Product Design

In product design and development there is an ever increasing need for better and reliable products. The design process should be fast and cost effective. Computational power is increasing and at the same time the hardware costs are decreasing. The variety of commercial as well as open source simulation software is huge. Additionally, easy to use and learn scripting languages are more and more becoming an important part of the whole analysis process. Tosupport the whole product design process, effective software independent tools are needed. Automated analysis processes are needed when seeking optimal solutions via optimization or parameter variation. These increases also reliability by avoidance of human errors. With the automated processes the visualization and documentation of the results is easy. Modern and flexible software combined with effective hardware and connected together with effectivescripting languages makes it possible to develop wholly automatic and reliable calculation processes. These processes can then be combined with optimization loops thus enabling product optimization and control of the inevitable uncertainty in model parameters. As a test case, the automatic analysis system presented in this study is applied to optimization of vibratory behaviour of a diesel-generator set