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 Romax 2021?
- Import Electric Machines from JMAG-Express. Combine the power of Romax Concept, a fast simulation tool for early stage development of the complete electric powertrain, with JMAG-Express, a concept-level online parametric design tool for motor electromagnetic performance, to understand motor and electric powertrain efficiency right from the start. This provides a fast, easy workflow at the concept and sizing development stage when design iterations need to be at their most efficient.
- Efficiency Maps and Drive Cycle Analysis with an Electric Machine Drive System. Easily assess the efficiency and performance of different EV powertrain design concepts whilst considering the most important tradeoffs (cost, weight and performance) to select the optimum motor/transmission combination.
- For information on further small enhancements to Concept and on improvements to other products, please get in touch with your Romax representative.
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.
Empowered decisions
Romax Concept empowers informed engineering decisions early in the product development process.
Identify promising design candidates by:
- Analysing the performance of each concept and managing trade-offs between durability, efficiency, NVH, packaging, weight and cost.
- Performing vehicle performance and efficiency predictions of electric and conventional powertrain designs.
Refine your design by selecting bearings directly from supplier catalogues and optimise gear ratios and macro-geometry.
Flexible integrations
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 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.
Feature Highlight: Electric Machine Capability
Capture and analyse the performance of the whole electromechanical system at the concept stage. Features:
- Visualisation and packaging checks
- Motor selection and sizing, including evaluation of vehicle performance and efficiency prediction
- 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.”
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What you’ll learn:
- How Romax Concept allows fast and efficient product design from the concept phase in a user-friendly model creation environment
- How you can easily create full system simulation models of multiple complex layouts of powertrains, drivetrains, transmission and drivelines
- How Concept empowers informed engineering decisions early in the product development process
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