Web-based multibody dynamics using distributed simulation modules

From being a specialized tool, used in only a few of the design stages, modeling and simulation has become a strategically and competitive tool the global manufacturing firm can’t do without in order to perform world class product development. Simulations have grown from being small isolated models treated at one geographic place to be multidisciplinary and incorporating whole product structures. This means that information, i.e. simulation models, might be located at departments across the entire organization, hence in the global organization across the world and the efforts to perform simulations will be complicated. A method, or tool, that use the Internet for sharing and incorporating modular Simulation models, within the framework of multibody dynamics, is proposed and developed in this work