ESI Group has released Welding Simulation Suite version 2009, with Weld Planner and PAM-ASSEMBLY functions.

According to ESI Group, represented in Australia by Pacific ESI, the simulation suite reduces time and cost for generating the bill of material and results in feasible process design.

The Weld Planner is used for the early design and process evaluation phase, where it is used to evaluate numbers and positions of welds, clamping conditions and design.

Version 2009 of the Welding Simulation Suite is embedded in a complete CAE environment, and includes dedicated meshing and post-processing tools.

ESI says the PAM-ASSEMBLY function is then used to validate the preliminary decisions taken. The complete physics of material is computed in local models, feeding the global model which is used to compute the overall distortion.