Ludo Gielen

Ludo held various positions in engineering consultancy, business development, product management and innovation management in the LMS engineering services and test division and, after the acquisition of LMS by Siemens, in the Siemens Digital Industries Software Simulation and Testing Solutions (STS) group. He is currently managing the innovation and incubation teams of the STS Testing Solutions & Smart Vehicle Technologies group. Through consultancy projects and research programs, he has contributed to the development of advanced methods in the fields of transfer-path analysis, combined test-simulation model substructuring, executable digital twins and model-based system testing.

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Presentation

Introducing an innovative technology to simplify invariant component characterization

Component characterization using invariant quantities such as blocked forces is a hot topic in the automotive industry. With physical prototypes becoming increasingly scarce, blocked forces allow test and CAE engineers to collaborate on component integration by predicting NVH performance in virtual assemblies at any stage of development. However, acquiring blocked forces has traditionally been reserved for highly skilled experts due to its complexity, despite the existence of relevant ISO standards (e.g. 20170). In this session, we will introduce an innovative technology that simplifies this complex task to enable wide-scale adoption of blocked forces methodology by any OEM or supplier.