Engineering decisions during the drivetrain design phase are critical for product quality and performance. To accelerate innovation and create competitive products, engineers need the right tools that enable them to iterate quickly and make confident decisions.
Romax Concept embodies our vast experience in CAE simulation technology and drivetrain design. Underpinned by Romax’s world-leading simulation capabilities, Concept is tailored to the early design stage. Its intuitive interface and rapid modelling helps you identify the best transmission, drivetrain or gearbox configuration for any application, as efficiently as possible.
What’s new in R20?
New features in R20 focus on ensuring that Concept remains the fastest, most user-friendly tool on the market for early stage transmission and driveline design and analysis. Features include:
- Improvements to vehicle simulation – for ease of use and to allow comparison of a wider variety of designs (now including single speed designs, often used in electric vehicle transmissions).
- Import reference geometry directly from CAD for effective visualisation and communication.
- New bearing database from Nachi-Fujikoshi.
- Enhanced bearing stiffness model – to provide more accurate prediction of system loads and bearing lives, and more consistent results between Nexus products.
- Further improvements to usability, visualisation, bearing life reports and gear design.
For more information on new features in R20, join our release webinar.
FASTER MODELLING
Fast and efficient product design from the concept phase in a user-friendly model creation environment.
Create full system simulation models of multiple complex layouts of powertrains, drivetrains, transmission and drivelines, with ease, thanks to an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
FLEXIBLE INTEGRATION
Romax Concept allows seamless collaboration across CAD, Multibody Dynamics (MBD) and CAE to reduce errors and time to market.
Designs can easily be taken from Romax Concept and converted into CAD models and drawings, optimised multibody dynamic models and used in any other Romax Nexus product for more detailed analysis.
No need to re-enter data at every stage of the design process, reducing potential for error and saving time.
EMPOWERED DECISIONS
Romax Concept empowers informed engineering decisions early in the product development process.
Analyse the performance of each concept and manage trade-offs between durability, efficiency, NVH, packaging, weight and cost.
Perform vehicle drive cycle analyses to evaluate system efficiency.
Refine your design by selecting bearings directly from supplier catalogues and optimise gear ratios and macro-geometry.
Feature Highlight: Electric Machine Capability
Romax Concept allows you to model an electric machine with accurate packaging dimensions including a rotor, a stator with end-windings, housing and rotor shaft. The electric machine component can also be imported from a Motor-CAD native file.
Capture and analyse the performance of the whole electromechanical system at the concept stage. Features:
- Visualisation and packaging checks
- CAD export
- Bearing selection and evaluation of different motor bearing arrangements
- Gear and motor excitation orders on the same plot for early NVH analysis
- Materials’ cost and weight
“CONCEPT software is the starting point of the whole product [development].”
“It helps decrease development time and helps in minimising design failure. Through a smaller development cycle we can make products more robust at an earlier stage – using Romax enables us to overcome limitations we might face, as well as meeting Right First Time design requirements.”
“Using CONCEPT is perfect for testing multiple gearbox, transmission and driveline designs at an early stage of the development because you get a prediction of efficiency and even cost data right from the start – it’s hugely beneficial to get an idea of costs at such an early stage of development. CONCEPT enables us to make informed engineering decisions over which one design is the best for a particular project.”
The Romax Nexus platform aligns with your powertrain and transmission development cycle, from rapid modelling and concept exploration to detailed simulation and virtual product sign-off. Watch the video or click below to learn more about Romax Nexus.
Follow us on