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Siemens Digital Industries Software (Plano, Texas, U.S.) has announced the latest updates to its Simcenter Testlab software, including new AI-assisted workflows that accelerate modal analysis processes, making them up to seven times faster while reducing the personnel needed to perform physical impact testing. Updates also bring automated data capture and processing, improving data quality and consistency across all testing phases — enabling engineers to test faster, smarter and earlier.

Siemens is leveraging AI to streamline processes and workflows, minimize manual tasks and accelerate time to market throughout the engineering life cycle, says Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, senior vice president, simulation and test solutions for Siemens Digital Industries Software. “The latest enhancements in Simcenter Testlab illustrate our approach to integrating AI to transform how teams conduct, manage and interpret physical testing. We are leading a significant shift in engineering practices, from design and development through to the essential stages of physical testing.”

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Siemens’ Simcenter Testlab AI-assisted modal testing capability speeds the modal analysis via enhanced automated mode selection and validation combined with a unified modal analysis dashboard that streamlines the modal testing workflow. In addition, intelligent sensor placement and automated hit selection simplifies the impact acquisition and reduces personnel required.

Enhanced testing and analysis tools

Transfer Path Analysis (TPA). New automation features and processing capabilities in Simcenter Testlab cuts overall analysis time by 40%, making sophisticated noise, vibration, harshness (NVH) predictions more accessible to less experienced users.

ISO 20270-compliant solution. Cuts the time for component characterization from weeks to hours through automated acquisition of blocked forces and impedance frequency response functions (FRFs) with automated component model extraction solution using Simcenter physical testing hardware and new Simcenter Testlab Automated Component Model Extractor software.

Streamline test preparation. Use predefined sequences to automate data processing and validation in Simcenter Testlab Schedule Designer to help ensure complete data traceability and virtually eliminate the risk of incomplete or inconsistent test data.

The latest update also seamlessly transfers test plans defined in the Schedule Designer to the data acquisition system Recorder App. This integration provides clear, wireless, tablet-based instructions to operators and enables immediate data validation and processing and thus reduces errors.

In keeping with Siemens’ philosophy of openness, Simcenter SCADAS RS now also enables export of data in universal or third-party formats, so the system can work with other software platforms for data processing and analysis.