The GERG Group Selects VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® Software to Engineer Advanced Composites for Motor Sports Industry
WALTHAM, Mass.--VISTAGY, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized engineering software, today announced that The GERG Group, a German manufacturer of products made of advanced composite materials, has selected VISTAGY’s FiberSIM® suite of software to improve the engineering process for developing complex composite racing car parts for its customers in the motor sports and Formula One industries. GERG engineers plan to automate and streamline the entire end-to-end development process for composite products—from conceptual design to manufacturing and quality assurance.
With the recent deployment of FiberSIM software, powered by VISTAGY’s unique EnCapta® technology, GERG is creating complex racing car parts made of advanced composites, including the wings and struts. These parts are comprised of hundreds of plies of composite material, and exhibit very complex curvature that cannot be easily or quickly defined with commercial CAD software systems alone. With FiberSIM operating inside GERG’s existing 3D CAD system, engineers are able to avoid the potential risk for errors and delays that would negatively impact stringent delivery deadlines imposed by Formula One.
FiberSIM will enable engineers to capture all non-geometric design detail, such as engineering annotations or materials tables which are critical to the accurate development of a quality product, and quickly associate that data to the CAD model geometry. And it will efficiently share the data across manufacturing and quality teams to verify final products meet all durability, safety and delivery specifications. The firm has initially used FiberSIM to create consistently-accurate flat patterns for composite parts and will automatically generate detailed documentation such as plybooks to streamline manufacturing. FiberSIM will also directly export the flat patterns from the 3D CAD model to automated cutting machines and laser projectors to assist in quickly and accurately laying up composite materials on tool surfaces. GERG plans to quickly expand its use of the software for all future design and manufacturing projects in order to reduce cycle times and costs.
“The GERG Group is growing quickly and is an influential composites manufacturing partner in the Formula One industry, so we needed more sophisticated model-based design software specialized for composites,” said Benno Haerdl, head of composites at The GERG Group. “Our skilled engineers evaluated several solutions, but we feel that FiberSIM is the best and most complete set of tools for developing composite parts. We will also tap into VISTAGY’s years of expertise and knowledge in the Formula One industry to streamline our development processes and reduce cycle times – giving us an advantage over the competition.”
For more information about FiberSIM software, please visit the VISTAGY Web site.
About The GERG Group
Founded in 1984, The GERG Group evolved to become an alliance of four independent companies – Modell- und Formenbau Blasius GERG GmbH, GERG Konstruktionen GmbH, GERG products GmbH, and GERG Rapid Prototyping GmbH. Its experts offer customers a range of different manufacturing disciplines, ensuring both diversity and specialization for composite products. The firm works closely with its customers from conceptualization, construction and calculation, to the first prototypes and series production. This modular structure allows the company to respond flexibly to its customers’ demands to help meet schedules and deadlines, providing reliable service and the highest level of quality. For more information on The GERG Group, please visit http://www.gerg.de/.
About VISTAGY, Inc.
VISTAGY, Inc. develops engineering software that provides specialized functionality to significantly improve the value of commercial 3D CAD systems. VISTAGY’s specialized engineering environments enable engineers to capture and communicate complete digital product definitions within CAD, thereby increasing productivity, improving the communication of product information throughout the product lifecycle, and allowing better-informed decision-making early in design. VISTAGY software is used throughout the world in the aerospace, automotive, marine, wind energy, medical, sporting goods, and transportation interiors industries. The company also offers training and consulting services. For more information, contact VISTAGY in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, at +1.781.250.6868 or visit www.vistagy.com.
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