Working within Romax’s ecosystem puts the cutting-edge technology of Romax’s partner solutions at your fingertips, giving you limitless ways to bring incredible products to market. These powerful solutions each offer unique capabilities, yet integrate tightly to form a true ecosystem, so you can build integrated, multi-faceted workflows that are genuinely seamless.
Moving between electromagnetic and mechanical simulation is easy, with a combined physics simulation methodology to target failure mechanisms that the Romax electrification community recognise as critical issues.
JSOL’s simulation software, JMAG, is for electromagnetic design and simulation in a wide range of devices. Since being released in 1983, JMAG has been used in industries and Universities around the world and has contributed to the development of numerous products.
Synergies: At the concept design stage, motor geometry and loss data may be exported from the JMAG-Express Online design tool, and imported into Romax Evolve or Romax Concept to quickly produce a simple structural model of the electric machine.
As part of detailed design, electromagnetic forces (stator tooth forces and torque ripple), can be exported from JMAG-Designer electromagnetic analysis for use in eNVH analysis. Passing all necessary data within a single datafile simplifies the analysis workflow between this tool and Romax NVH analysis, reducing data handling and minimising the risk of user error.
In addition, loss data may be imported from JMAG-Designer into Romax efficiency simulation, and included within a complete efficiency simulation alongside Romax bearing or gear loss models.
The products within the Romax software platform that integrate with this solution are Concept, Evolve, Energy, and Spectrum.
ANSYS is headquartered in the US, and employs nearly 3,000 people with a network of channel partners spanning 40+ countries. Ansys© Maxwell© is an electromagnetic field simulation software for the design and analysis of electric motors, actuators, sensors, transformers and other electromagnetic and electro-mechanical devices.
Synergy: Electromagnetic forces (stator tooth forces and torque ripple), can be exported from ANSYS Maxwell electromagnetic analysis for use in eNVH analysis. Passing all necessary data within a single datafile simplifies the analysis workflow between this tool and Romax products, reducing data handling and minimising the risk of user error.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Romax Spectrum and Romax Evolve.
Motor Design Ltd (MDL) is a leader in developing software and tools for electric machine design. MDL’s software package, Motor-CAD is dedicated to the thermal and electromagnetic performance of motors and generators and the optimisation of their cooling.
Synergy: At the concept design stage, Romax Concept users can import a complete structural representation of an electrical machine directly from the native Motor-CAD file format. This allows the user to quickly investigate packaging and topology layouts of integrated electromechanical drive systems. An automated interface from Motor-CAD allows users to easily export stator tooth forces and rotor torque ripple. This data may then be read directly into Romax Evolve, to simulate e-motor NVH behaviour, or into Romax Spectrum to evaluate system-level NVH behaviour of an integrated electromechanical drivetrain.
Dassault Simulation Software is a Finite Element Analysis software suite which allows users to perform simulations of electro-magnetic (EM) and electromechanical systems in 2- and 3-dimensions. Opera complements the rest of the SIMULIA EM portfolio with its strength in low frequency simulation, which is extremely useful for the design of magnets, electric motors and other electrical machines.
Synergy: Electromagnetic forces (stator tooth forces and torque ripple), as well as electric machine active geometry (rotor and stator) can be exported from Opera 3D electromagnetic analysis for use in eNVH analysis. Passing all necessary data within a single datafile simplifies the analysis workflow between this tool and Romax products, reducing data handling and minimising the risk of user error.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Romax Spectrum and Romax Evolve.
Altair is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA and operates more than 40 offices throughout 22 countries, with over 2,300 employees worldwide. Altair Flux is a software for low-frequency 2D and 3D electromagnetic and thermal simulations. Its multi-parametric capabilities allow an efficient search of the design space for optimal performance.
Synergy: Excitation data can be generated in Altair Flux and subsequently imported into Romax Evolve and Romax Spectrum as input data for eNVH analysis for the simulation of the noise of electrical machines and electrified drivelines.
Gear Partners
Complement Romax’s established gear contact capability with other recognised calculation code. Combine partner gear contact calculations with structural deflection results from Romax. Baseline new designs against historic design benchmark results.
Dontyne Systems offers software and services aimed at the optimum production of gear components and their use in the transmission industry. Their range of products allows end-to-end control of the gear manufacturing process.
Synergy: Romax have formed a partnership with Dontyne Systems to help the industry bring the worlds of gear design and manufacturing closer together, leveraging high-end manufacturing simulation from Dontyne and trusted, fast, system design and analysis tools from Romax.
Parts of Dontyne’s powerful software are seamlessly integrated into the Romax products. The process is fully automatable and able to take as inputs the existing gear parameters that Romax users are familiar with. The tooling parameters are automatically estimated based on the designed geometry. This means it is not necessary to have a deep understanding of gear manufacturing to consider accurate manufacturable gear geometry in geared system design and analysis for durability, NVH, and efficiency.
It is also possible to export gears sets from Romax and load these in the full version of Dontyne’s Machine Centre, enabling direct collaboration with gear manufacturers who use Machine Centre for detailed tooling design and other gear manufacturing aspects.
The products within the Romax suite that support this joint solution are Enduro, Spectrum and Energy.
Gleason offers Total Gear Solutions to its global customer base. Gleason are principally involved in the development and manufacture of production systems for all types of gears including design software for gears and power transmission systems, gear production machinery, metrology systems, automation solutions, related equipment and plastic gears.
Synergy: Romax have developed an automated Data Exchange Interface to Gleason GEMS. This integration enhances the design process by leveraging the strength of full drivetrain system analysis in Romax and detailed analysis of bevel and hypoid gears in GEMS, ultimately leading to increased durability, efficiency and improved NVH characteristics. This data exchange brings expert-level bevel and hypoid gear design and analysis into the Romax environment, whilst considering Gleason’s engineering know-how. Romax provides accurate information about gear misalignments, considering the complete gearbox system including the housing and accounting for deflections of all components.
This information is passed into GEMS, which is then able to perform detailed analysis and optimisation of bevel and hypoid gear pairs. This partnership significantly enhances the design process, enabling more system-based calculations, leading to designs with increased durability, efficiency, and improved NVH characteristics.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Enduro, Spectrum, Energy and Spin.
Klingelnberg operates in the gear industry, focusing on the development and manufacture of machines to produce bevel and cylindrical gears, measuring centres for axially symmetrical objects of all types, and the production of high-precision gear components made to customers’ orders.
Synergy: The automated interface of data between Romax software and Klingelnberg enables detailed design and analysis of bevel and hypoid gears as part of a system analysis. The interface to the Klingelnberg software package, KIMoS, allows users to export gear geometry to Romax.
Romax can use this data to accurately predict the gear mesh misalignments which can be passed to KIMoS along with the associated torques and speeds for multiple load cases. KIMoS can then perform an accurate tooth contact analysis. The resulting microgeometry contact patterns, mesh stiffness and transmission error can be loaded back into Romax for dynamic analysis.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Enduro, Spectrum, Energy and Spin.
ANSOL (Advanced Numerical Solutions) specialise in custom numerical models, finite element and boundary element codes, contact mechanics, gear contact analysis, acoustics and wave propagation analysis.
Synergy: Romax software integrates with ANSOL’s HypoidFaceHobbed (HFH) and HypoidFaceMilled (HFM) products to enable detailed design and analysis of bevel and hypoid gears as part of a system analysis.
These ANSOL products enable the geometric modelling and contact analysis of spiral bevel and hypoid gears. Romax have implemented an interface which enables mesh misalignments calculated by a Romax analysis to be automatically exported to HFH/HFM. The hypoid gear transmission error calculated by HFH and HFM is then automatically returned to Romax for use in NVH analysis.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy and Spin.
The Gear and Power Transmission Research Laboratory (GearLab), formerly the Gear Dynamics and Gear and Power Transmission Laboratory, is a research group dedicated to aiding sponsoring industries and government agencies by enhancing gear and power transmission technology through fundamental and applied research and transfer research results. They’re also dedicated to providing graduate and under-graduate students with applied educational and research opportunities in gear and power transmission related disciplines, and keeping sponsors updated on latest gear technologies.
Synergy: The interface between Romax software and WindowsLDP (Load Distribution Program) enables detailed design and analysis of parallel gears as part of a system analysis. WindowsLDP enables geometric modelling and contact analysis of cylindrical gears. The interface exports geometry and micro-geometry from Romax to a WindowsLDP input file, then WindowsLDP runs the necessary analysis in the background, and the interface then reads all WindowsLDP results for displaying and utilising in the rest of Romax. This includes the transmission error harmonics and average mesh stiffness for use in Romax, as well as shuttling forces, contact stress, temperature distribution and film thickness results that can now be viewed in the normal Romax micro-geometry window.
Romax has supported the GearLab for over 10 years, working with professors and students on gear-related NVH testing and simulation. The Gear and Power Transmission Research Laboratory have a focus on improving the durability, efficiency and noise performance of power transmission systems. Consortium members have access to WindowsLDP, which has a dedicated interface in Romax for spur and helical gear LTCA, including transmission error, contact stress and other contact mechanics results.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Romax Enduro and Romax Spectrum.
Bearing Partners
Accurate and up to date information from bearing suppliers at your fingertips, right from the first concept sketch and the initial bearing selection, all the way through to the final cut. Meaning accurate calculations, and your best chance for an optimized design with a scalable supply chain.
SKF are a bearing and seal manufacturing company founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1907. The company manufactures and supplies bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems, maintenance products, mechatronics products, power transmission products, condition monitoring systems and related services globally
Synergy: SKF’s bearing catalogue data is included in Romax software for accurate system analysis and detailed bearing analysis. This is available from the Romax cloud-based download system, so that your catalogs are always accurate and up to date. In addition, SKF bearing calculations from SKF’s cloud calculation service have been embedded into Romax software to evaluate bearing performance according to SKF’s latest and most up to date bearing data and models’.
The Schaeffler Group is a global supplier of rolling element bearings for automotive, aerospace and industrial uses based in Germany. They strive to deliver high-precision components and systems in engine, transmission, and chassis applications, as well as rolling and plain bearing solutions for a large number of industrial applications.
Synergy: Schafflers’s bearing catalogue data is included in Romax software for accurate system analysis and detailed bearing analysis. This is available from the Romax cloud-based download system, so that your catalogs are always accurate and up to date.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
The Timken Company designs a portfolio of engineered bearings and power transmission products, with the primary aim of improving the reliability and efficiency of global machinery and equipment.
Synergy: Timken’s bearing catalogue data is included in Romax software for accurate system analysis and detailed bearing analysis. This is available from the Romax cloud-based download system, so that your catalogs are always accurate and up to date.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Koyo is the JTEKT Corporation brand for Bearings. JTEKT engineering and manufacturing capabilities range from super large bearings with outer diameters of seven meters to miniature bearings with inner diameters as small as one millimetre. Utilising new materials and the latest in manufacturing technology, JTEKT Corporation has developed hybrid ceramic bearings and a variety of extreme special environment bearings to meet the increasingly severe and demanding requirements of modern industries.
Synergy: Koyo’s bearing catalogue data is included in Romax software for accurate system analysis and detailed bearing analysis. This is available from the Romax cloud-based download system, so that your catalogs are always accurate and up to date.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
NACHI-FUJIKOSHI was founded as a tool manufacturer in the City of Toyama in December 1928. Ten years after its founding, the firm set up a steel mill and established an integrated production system covering aspects from materials to the final product.
Through complex and linked Nachi Business – machining business with machining, robots, and the like, functional components business with bearings, hydraulic equipment, and the like, materials business with materials and heat treatment – the firm “Contributes to the development of the world of product manufacture.”
Synergy: Nachi’s bearing catalogue data is included in Romax software for accurate system analysis and detailed bearing analysis. This is available from the Romax cloud-based download system, so that your catalogs are always accurate and up to date.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Vibroacoustic Partners
Use structural response in acoustic analysis, and predict radiated noise, a key target metric for motor and gear whine.
Actran is the premier acoustics software to solve acoustics, vibro-acoustics, and aero-acoustics problems. Used by automotive manufacturers and suppliers, aerospace and defence companies, and consumer product manufacturers, Actran helps engineers better understand and improve the acoustics performance of their designs.
Synergy: Acoustic Analysis adds radiated noise capabilities to the vibration simulation and analysis provided by Romax Spectrum to give you a thorough understanding of NVH performance in electro-mechanical powertrains.
Based on renowned and trusted meshing and solver technology from Free Field Technologies, Romax Spectrum’s new Acoustic Analysis product option forms a complete end-to-end process which allows you to predict radiated noise quickly and simply, without any in-depth experience of acoustic simulation. In combination with Romax Spectrum’s vibration prediction and system dynamic analysis tools, you can identify and mitigate the root causes of radiated noise problems in a single software product.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Romax Spectrum and Romax Evolve.
VI-grade provides software products and services for advanced applications in the field of system level simulation. Together with a network of selected partners, VI-grade also provides revolutionary turn-key solutions for static and dynamic professional driving simulation.
Established in 2005, VI-grade delivers innovative solutions to streamline the development process from concept to sign-off in the transportation industry, mainly automotive, aerospace, motorcycle, motorsports and railways. With office locations in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, UK, Japan, China, and the USA, and a worldwide channel network of more than 20 trusted partners, VI-grade is a dynamic and growing company with a highly skilled technical team
Synergy: Meeting the sound quality requirements for an electric vehicles poses different challenges compared to vehicles with internal combustion engines. VI-grade’s NVH Simulators can be used to experience vehicle noise based on a combination of simulated and measured noise sources. Experiencing the noise through simulated driving provides greater insight into the vehicle interior noise quality allowing the effect of design changes to be considered before a real vehicle exists.
Romax and VI-grade have developed a process to perform an interactive evaluation of an EV virtual prototype using the VI-grade NVH Simulator. Together, we combined on one side, CAE simulation data to characterise the EV powertrain noise sources due to the electric motor and gearbox, and, on the other side, transfer functions measured on a surrogate vehicle to propagate the sound sources to the driver ears. We then demonstrate how to use this virtual prototype for interactive sound quality evaluation as you would do when driving a vehicle, but this is here performed even before having access to a physical prototype.
The products within the Romax suite that integrate with this solution are Romax Spectrum and Romax Evolve.
ANSOL (Advanced Numerical Solutions) specialise in custom numerical models, finite element and boundary element codes, contact mechanics, gear contact analysis, acoustics and wave propagation analysis.
Ansol Coustyx is a Boundary Element simulation tool for predicting radiated noise from vibrating structures. Interfaces from Romax Spectrum and Evolve can be used to provide the required vibration data input to Coustyx to predict radiated noise from electro-mechanical drivelines and electric machines.
LMS simulation and testing solutions help manufacturing companies manage the complexities of tomorrow’s product development by incorporating model-based mechatronic simulation and advanced testing solutions in the product development process. Our products and services tune into mission-critical engineering attributes – ranging from system dynamics, structural integrity and sound quality to durability, safety and power consumption. LMS products also address the complex engineering challenges associated with intelligent systems in the automotive and aerospace industries as well as in other advanced manufacturing industries.
Simcenter Amesim offers engineers an integrated simulation platform to accurately predict the multidisciplinary performance of intelligent systems.
Synergy: Vibration response outputs from Romax Spectrum can be used by Simcenter 3D Acoustic Analysis to predict radiated noise.
Process Integration and Design Optimisation Partners
Piecing together the elements of a combined process that potentially spans your entire department (and even beyond) is a full-time job. We have focused on solving the technical challenge this presents, so that you can focus on the bigger picture. A process, once automated, is ripe for exploring through design optimization software.
VCollab helps the manufacturing industry to accelerate the processing and reporting of simulation results in order to streamline the design decision making process by providing actionable simulation insights.
By automating the process of extracting, merging, and reporting simulation insights in 3D, high-fidelity, browser-viewable models, VCollab extends access to critical simulation insights for everyone involved in the design and manufacturing process. The software enables the automatic creation of “Digital CAE Reports” from native simulation results files. These high-fidelity, actionable simulation insight reports can easily be shared with designers and other stakeholders to inform the design decision making process.
Synergy: Our partnership allows VCollab to be utilized with the Romax product suite, so that users can create 3D Digital CAE Reports which aid in the review and understanding of CAE results and support advanced multi-physics collaborative workflows. The first step in our partnership has been to focus on NVH results of housings, and we are working to add more functionality in the near future.
Aras Corporation is an American developer and publisher of product development software, Aras Innovator. The product is used for product lifecycle management and other purposes. Aras Comet is a vendor-neutral process automation platform that is built specifically for CAE/Simulation. Comet captures modelling rules based on the functional architecture, enables rapid exploration of design alternatives and makes simulation-driven processes more efficient.
Synergy: Romax offers the ability to integrate CAE tools in automated workflows to improve ability to understand interactions and create optimisation processes. By integrating data and tools within a single automation environment that includes optimization capabilities, Aras Comet enhances the system analysis aspects of Romax, providing product engineers with an unprecedented capability to explore the complex interactions between flexible structural components, such as housings and planetary carriers, and the resulting gear, bearing and overall system performance.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
EASA’s vision was to create a new way for companies to deploy engineering and scientific models as intuitive web apps, customized to the needs of the end-users. A fundamental requirement for the platform was that these web apps should be built without conventional coding, and with a fraction of the effort required for conventional application development.
With EASA, you can share your simulation models as web-based applications that embed design rules, constraint checks and error trapping – which can then be deployed to any controlled group of users. Users could be existing users needing to streamline their current workflows, occasional-use engineers who don’t have the time to refamiliarize themselves with a particular analysis code, or even those brand new to modelling. EASA enables you, without any programming, to easily deploy: Excel spreadsheets; Mathcad, MATLAB and other mathematical modelling tools; ANSYS, Nastran, Romax, and other CAE Modelling tools; In-House and legacy software. EASA is primarily used in the manufacturing sector, wherever there is value in enabling companies to increase the accessibility of engineering models.
Synergy: Our partnership gives users the ability to simply create easy to use web forms and apps to run powerful Romax analysis, for non-experts.
For example, a user could develop an application with the aim to automate the analysis of gearboxes. The application endeavours to enable a person who is not an expert with CAE tools to run static analyses on several gearboxes and duty cycles, and then select the one that best matches their requirements based on various criteria.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
ESTECO is an independent software provider that specialises in numerical optimization and simulation data management. Their engineering suite brings enterprise-wide solutions for design optimization, simulation data management and process integration and automation.
ESTECO’s flagship product, modeFRONTIER provides an optimization environment with modular, profiled-based access. ESTECO’s integration platform for multi-objective and multi-disciplinary optimization offers a seamless coupling with third party engineering tools, enables the automation of the design simulation process and facilitates analytic decision making.
Synergy: ESTECO developed a modeFRONTIER direct node allows engineers to easily automate Romax analyses, link to other CAE tools, and optimise systems. Partnering with Esteco therefore allows you to further cover the “Multi-Disciplinary Optimization” and encourages optimisation processes.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Noesis Solutions is an engineering innovation partner to manufacturers in engineering-intense industries. Specialised in solutions that enable Objectives Driven Draft-to-Craft Engineering processes, its software products and services help customers adopt a targeted development strategy that resolves their toughest multi-disciplinary engineering challenges.
This Engineer by Objectives strategy entails an automated approach that streamlines engineering processes to efficiently manage the growing complexity of today’s engineering challenges. In addition, interactive design space visualization allows engineering teams to make informed decisions faster – empowering them to form & transform ideas into products that outsmart competition.
The Optimus workflow editor allows users to parameterize engineering models without the need to deal with complex file syntax. Optimus also makes it easy for the user to automate design variable substitution and simulation results extraction. Launching and executing the different simulation tools is embedded in the process without the need for any user programming.
Synergy: Optimus features a dedicated interface to supported Romax products making it easy for engineers to automate Romax analysis, link to other CAE tools, and optimise systems. Partnering with Noesis therefore allows you to further cover the “Multi-Disciplinary Optimization” and encourages optimisation processes.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Powered by the Dassault Systemes’ 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, SIMULIA delivers realistic simulation applications that enable users to explore real-world behaviour of product, nature and life.
Isight is a powerful tool for effectively and efficiently managing simulation-based design processes. You can use Isight to model multi-step simulation and engineering data analysis processes and to automate the execution of these processes. Isight can repeatedly execute the process under the control of a process component (e.g., Monte Carlo component, Optimization component) to explore a design space.
Synergy: The dedicated and easy to use Romax component enables Isight processes such as Design of Experiments and Six-Sigma reliability and robustness studies to be integrated into Romax analyses, increasing confidence in your designs for real world duty cycles.
The Romax Isight component allows integration with many other third-party software tools enabling automatic mapping of input and output parameters, improving process automation and decreasing development time. Common tools which can be included within an Isight study include Excel, MATLAB, CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, plus many others.
The automatic file handling within Isight allows input and output files, such as PDF reports and Romax models to be saved for each design iteration. These files can then be easily accessed in the results window with a single click, facilitating a detailed comparison between designs.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
CFD Partners
Combine Romax kinematic models and loss methods with CFD to analyse fluid distribution and churning loss early in the design process, for the whole transmission.
Prometech’s CFD simulation software, Particleworks, is used for evaluating the behaviour of liquids with large scale deformation, such as transmission lubrication and motor cooling. Released in 2009, Particleworks uses MPS (Moving Particle Simulation) and requires no meshing of the computational domain, resulting in significantly reduced simulation time and man-hours compared to classical CFD.
Synergy: The Romax model can be exported early in the system design and development process to Particleworks to conduct CFD analysis and analyse flow distribution. The Export automatically sets up the Particleworks model with all component speeds and setup parameters. This reduces the manual pre-processing time even further, especially for larger models, and democratises fluids analysis so that non-experts can also conduct CFD simulation. The risk of manual data handling errors is also minimised.
The product within the Romax platform that integrates with this solution is Romax Energy.
Multibody Dynamics, Engine and System Analysis Partners
There are many failure mechanisms to eliminate in the time domain. Choose the right tool for the job and drive it through Dynamic Fusion.
Gamma Technologies develops and licenses GT-SUITE, a leading multi-physics CAE system simulation software. GT-SUITE includes a library of physics-based modelling templates covering fluid flow, thermal, mechanical, electrical, magnetic, chemistry, and controls. In addition, higher level modelling templates are available that are designed for specific applications.
GT-SUITE applications include powertrain, engine, vehicles of any type, driveline, transmission, hybrids, exhaust aftertreatment chemistry, acoustics, cooling and thermal management and HVAC, hydraulics, fuel systems, lubrication, chain, gear and belt drives, etc.
Synergy: Romax Dynamic Fusion can create optimised, accurate multibody dynamic transmission models in seconds. GT-SUITE can then import these as part of a complete powertrain or vehicle model for simulation of drivability, driveline control systems and many other transient multi-physics applications. GT-SUITE users gain from an easy way to create complex transmission models which are fast and accurate to run, promoting integrated CAE development processes between experts in powertrain design and simulation.
Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence develops simulation software technology that enables engineers to validate and optimize their designs using virtual prototypes. Adams helps engineers to study the dynamics of moving parts, and how loads and forces are distributed throughout mechanical systems.
Synergy: Romax software can create optimised, accurate multibody dynamics Adams models to enable multibody dynamic simulation early in the design process. This integration uses Romax Dynamic Fusion for fast generation of optimised multibody models for driveline dynamics and multi-physics simulation.
Modelica is a non-proprietary, object-oriented, equation-based language to model complex physical systems containing, e.g., mechanical, electrical, electronic, hydraulic, thermal, control, electric power or process-oriented subcomponents. The industry is increasingly using Modelica for model-based development.
Synergy: Romax software can create optimised, accurate multibody dynamics Modelica models to enable MBD simulation to be performed early in the design process as part of Romax Dynamic Fusion.
MathWorks is an American privately held corporation that specialises in mathematical computing software. Its major products include MATLAB and Simulink, which support data analysis and simulation.
MATLAB, the language of technical computing, is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink® is a block diagram environment for multidomain simulation and Model-Based Design. It supports simulation, automatic code generation, and continuous test and verification of embedded systems.
The company produces nearly 100 additional products for specialized tasks such as data analysis and image processing.
Synergy: Many people use Matlab to further post-process numerical results output from Romax software products. For dynamic simulation, Romax Spectrum can export a super element representation of the model in a Matlab format.
Structural FEA Partners
Combine FEA with Romax component models. Use Romax component models to feed accurate boundary conditions into FEA, and vice-a-versa.
MSC Nastran is a multidisciplinary structural analysis application used by engineers to perform static, dynamic, and thermal analysis across the linear and nonlinear domains, complemented with automated structural optimization and award-winning embedded fatigue analysis technologies, all enabled by high performance computing.
Synergy: Include complex FE components in Romax system analysis to fully capture system interactions. The direct interface for MSC Nastran supports the efficient optimisation of engineering challenges involving multidisciplinary FEA simulation by allowing Romax users to import and export format files.
Dynamic results (FE component mode shapes, and operating deflection shapes) can be exported in Nastran OP2 format for further post-processing.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Ansys, Inc. is an American public company that develops and markets engineering simulation software. The ANSYS Workbench platform is the backbone for delivering a comprehensive and integrated simulation system to ANSYS customers. ANSYS is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology so that clients can turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at lower cost.
Synergy: Romax products can include complex FE components in Romax system analysis to fully capture system interactions. Romax products can read and write meshes and condensed superelements from ANSYS. Romax Spectrum can export a superelement dynamic representation of the whole Spectrum model in an ANSYS format.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Altair is a global technology company that provides software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high performance computing (HPC) and data intelligence.
Altair is a provider of enterprise-class engineering software enabling innovation, reduced development times, and lower costs through the entire product lifecycle from concept design to in-service operation. Altair’s simulation-driven approach to innovation is powered by their integrated suite of software which optimizes design performance across multiple disciplines encompassing structures, motion, fluids, thermal management, electromagnetics, system modelling and embedded systems, while also providing data analytics and true-to-life visualization and rendering.
Synergy: Romax products can include complex FE components in Romax system analysis to fully capture system interactions. Romax products can read and write meshes and condensed super elements with Optistruct.
Romax Spectrum can export a representation of the whole model in Optistruct format including FE meshes, super element representations of internal parts and applied dynamic excitations from gears and electric machines. This can be used for more accurate optimisation of housing components.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Dassault Systemes Abaqus Unified FEA product suite offers powerful and complete solutions for both routine and sophisticated engineering problems covering a vast spectrum of industrial applications. In the automotive industry engineering work groups can consider full vehicle loads, dynamic vibration, multibody systems, impact/crash, nonlinear static, thermal coupling, and acoustic-structural coupling using a common model data structure and integrated solver technology. Abaqus Unified FEA is used to consolidate processes and tools, reduce costs and inefficiencies, and gain a competitive advantage.
Synergy: Romax products can include complex FE components in Romax system analysis to fully capture system interactions. Romax products can read and write meshes and condensed super elements with Abaqus.
This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
The link between Design and Analysis has never been closer. Using our direct modelling CAD solution, we take 3D geometry, clean it up, mesh it, and combine it with our Romax component models. Going the other way, we take parametrically defined components and create 3D geometry for use as the basis for detailing work by the CAD team.
Siemens PLM Software is a computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management software. NX-CAD is an integrated solution that helps engineering teams develop innovative new products. With leading-edge design tools and technologies, NX streamlines and accelerates the product development process.
Synergy: Users can import or export CAD models into Romax to reduce rework, improve model building accuracy, save time, and link Design and Analysis groups more closely using Romax CAD Fusion. This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
SOLIDWORKS solutions cover all aspects of the product development process with a seamless, integrated workflow. Designers and engineers can span multiple disciplines with ease, shortening the design cycle, increasing productivity and delivering innovative products to market faster.
CATIA, powered by Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, is a leading Solution for Product Design and Experience. It is used by organizations in multiple industries to develop the products in our everyday lives. CATIA delivers the unique ability not only to model any product, but to do so in the context of its real-life behaviour: design in the age of experience. Systems architects, engineers, designers and all contributors can define, imagine and shape the connected world.
Synergy: Users can import or export CAD models into Romax to reduce rework, improve model building accuracy, save time, and link Design and Analysis groups more closely using Romax CAD Fusion. This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
PTC technology helps companies to quickly unlock the value now being created at the convergence of the physical and digital worlds through the IoT, AR, 3D Printing, Digital Twin, and Industries 4.0. Their CAD package, Creo, includes breakthrough capabilities in Additive Manufacturing, IoT, Model-Based Definition (MBD) and Augmented Reality (AR). Design faster and smarter by connecting your digital design to your physical products. PTC Creo is a powerful and flexible parametric 3D modelling software widely used in the Industry.
Synergy: Users can import or export CAD models into Romax to reduce rework, improve model building accuracy, save time, and link Design and Analysis groups more closely using Romax CAD Fusion. This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. Autodesk became best known for AutoCAD but now develops a broad range of software for design, engineering, and entertainment as well as a line of software for consumers, including Sketchbook, Homestyler, and Pixlr.
Synergy: Users can import or export CAD models into Romax to reduce rework, improve model building accuracy, save time, and link Design and Analysis groups more closely using Romax CAD Fusion. This solution integrates with the following Romax products: Concept, Enduro, Spectrum, Energy, Spin and Evolve.
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Academic Partners
We support academia by providing access to the industry’s most comprehensive software simulation platform for geared and electro-mechanical systems.
Industrial Research Partners
We work with many different technology providers to overcome critical problems and challenges to increase the advancement of the industry.
Software Partners
Establishing links with many of the leading industrial solutions you are familiar with, to create the integrated software toolchain you are looking for.