Case Study: Harcourt Industrial achieves faster, lower-cost aerospace tooling design with SimScale

Harcourt Industrial saves 9% in material costs with SimScale

Harcourt Industrial, a supplier of aerospace tooling and precision assembly solutions, faced high costs and delays from outsourcing structural analysis for their custom fixtures. They struggled to optimize designs without over-engineering and needed to accurately model complex, weld-free friction joints without exceeding the computational limits of their local hardware. To overcome these challenges, they turned to the cloud-native simulation platform from SimScale.

By implementing SimScale's solution, Harcourt Industrial brought simulation entirely in-house, eliminating third-party delays and costs. The platform enabled them to validate a material change from steel to aluminum and optimize structural members, achieving a 9% material cost saving. This also allowed for the creation of a behavioral database for proprietary joints and the ability to run simultaneous simulations. As a result, Harcourt drastically reduced analytical project expenses and improved product quality.

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