Case Study: Standard Profil wins a new vehicle seal order with Hexagon MSC Adams-Marc co-simulation

Co-Simulation helps win order to supply seals for a new model vehicle

Bias Engineering, an engineering services provider, faced the challenge of accurately simulating the complex, multi-component process of closing an automotive door to win a seal supply contract. Their client, Standard Profil, needed to predict the minimum initial velocity required to close a door, a critical quality metric for car buyers, which involved analyzing the interaction of the latch, hinge, air pressure, and the seal itself. To address this, they partnered with vendor Hexagon and utilized its MSC Adams and MSC Marc co-simulation software.

The solution implemented by Hexagon involved a co-simulation where MSC Adams software calculated the door's dynamic movement while MSC Marc software simultaneously calculated the nonlinear resistance of the weather seal in real-time. This integrated approach provided a highly accurate model of the entire door closing event. The results helped Standard Profil win the order to supply seals for a new vehicle model. Furthermore, the process now allows for new seal designs to be simulated in much less time and at a far lower cost than physical prototyping.

Bias Engineering

Hunkar Yurt

Simulation Engineer