Auto foundry takes up process simulation

Just 15 months after the first installations of casting process simulation software at a French automotive foundry, the company is extending licences and integrating them into its IT.

Just 15 months after the first installations of casting process simulation software at a French automotive foundry, the company is extending licences and integrating them into its IT.

15 months after the first installations of MMASOFT within the PSA concern, the French car manufacturer decided to ex?tend its current use of five workstation licenses by two perpetual MMASOFT cluster licenses.

The installation will be done on two Intel based 32 processor Fujitsu-Siemens Linux clusters with Gbit networking supported by Scali Interconnect communication software.

"This decision demonstrates the strongly grown confidence of PSA in Magma's products and services", Dr Joerg C Sturm, Executive Manager of Magma, states.

"The successful usage of casting process simulation by the casting engineering team in Belchamps resulted in a steeply growing demand in MMASOFT results at all PSA foundries, which can only be satisfied by the performance increase as provided through the cluster licenses." PSA has installed MMASOFT modules for all main processes in use, i.e die casting, permanent mold, low-pressure for non-ferrous and sand casting for cast iron applications.

Additionally, MMA-stress will be used on the two cluster machines looking into casting stresses and distortions.

MMASOFT cluster will be fully integrated into the PSA IT-environment including remote license management and job queuing.

For this purpose, MMA extended its communication protocol to allow to control the software usage by openPBS respectively LSF compliant scripts.

* About PSA - The PSA Peugeot Citroen group is one of the world leading automotive car manufacturers having comprehensive own foundry activities.

Their production ranges from cast iron engine blocks manufactured in their French Sept-Fons foundry, to aluminum permanent mold cylinder heads manufactured in Charleville to die cast engine aluminum blocks produced in their foundry in Mulhouse, France.

* About Magma - the demands on the functionality and quality of castings and the productivity and reliability of the casting process are increasing continuously.

It has been the aim of Magma since 1988 to provide a new view of the casting process with its casting process simulation tool MMASOFT and thereby support optimization in all areas of the process chain from casting development to volume production.

Today Magma in Aachen is the leading partner for the casting design and manufacturing industries.

Over 850 Magma customers worldwide prove that the challenges facing the casting process can only be successfully met when the relevant knowledge, powerful software, and competent support work hand-in-hand.

With more than 25 experienced foundry engineers and as many engineers from other disciplines, Magma provides a fast and effective engineering task force.

There are around 100 employees of Magma at five locations in Aachen, Germany, Chicago, USA, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Singapore and Hellebaek, Denmark.

Furthermore, Magma is represented by 20 competent partners worldwide.

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