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Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 24th November 2005:
Safe Technology Ltd successfully held the company’s first fe-safe™ User Conference on November 8th 2005 at Dana’s Technical Centre in Michigan, USA. This is to be an annual event with the next meeting scheduled for September 2006.
The 2005 conference was well-attended by fe-safe™ users including engineers from Caterpillar, Cummins, Dana, Eaton, Federal Mogul, Hayes Lemmerz, LuK, Mercury Marine, Robert Bosch and Volvo Trucks. Safe Technology partners and fe-safe™ resellers also attended.
The meeting provided the opportunity to bring together fatigue specialists from a range of industries to learn more about fe-safe™ future development plans - including a look at the forthcoming release - and methods of modern metal fatigue analysis in general.
A keynote speech, "Fatigue Life Prediction - Past and Future", from Daniel Lingenfelser, Engineering Specialist in Component Fatigue Technologies at Caterpillar Inc, set the tone for the day’s discussions around current hot topics in the field of fatigue analysis and how they are being addressed by Safe Technology and the engineering world in general.
Other presentations were made by technical experts from Dana, Cummins, Volvo Trucks and Altair Engineering. Pingsha Dong, Technical Director at the Battelle Institute gave a key presentation on the Verity™ mesh-insensitive structural stress method for fatigue evaluation of welded structures. Verity™ will soon be available as a module within fe-safe™ . This agreement between Battelle and Safe Technology marks the first widespread commercial introduction of Battelle’s patented Verity™ methodology, which predicts the fatigue life of welded structures with unprecedented accuracy.
Feedback from the UGM included:
"One of the better engineering conferences I’ve ever attended. Good mix of technology, theory, practice, What’s New information, etc. Good quality of presentations, audience interest/relevant discussions, etc. Venue was good - could only be bettered if it was held in Hawaii!" Leap Australia
"It was a very informative user group meeting this week. Thank you for putting this together. Hopefully this will become the annual event from now on." Mercury Marine
Proceedings from the fe-safe™ UGM are available to attendees from the Safe Technology website and papers can be viewed and downloaded at the fe-safe™ case studies page.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 21st September 2005:
A Battelle researcher in the US has developed a ground-breaking method for predicting fatigue life in welded structures that could revolutionise the field and has the potential to save billions of dollars in the aerospace, automotive, bridge construction, shipbuilding, pipeline, and off-shore oil rig industries. Battelle’s ground-breaking technology, trademarked Verity™, will soon be available worldwide as a result of an agreement reached with Safe Technology Ltd.
Modeling and testing regulations vary from industry to industry, but it’s safe to say billions of dollars are spent every year on testing, modeling, and predicting the fatigue life of welded structures. Pingsha Dong, technical director of the Center for Welded Structures Research at Battelle, has developed a method that can eliminate the need for expensive testing and over-engineering that is done to compensate for uncertainties (the ‘fudge factor’) in current fatigue design practices in various industries.
“For the past 25 years, experts in the field have been trying to address the inadequacies in stress analysis for fatigue design of welded structures so that companies would not have to compensate for poorly correlated test data,” says Pingsha. “Eventually, the industry and academia gave up. We did not.”
“This is a robust, consistent methodology. No matter who uses it, you get the same answer. No matter what load you apply and no matter what geometry you have, the mesh-insensitive model gives you a very accurate way of determining the fatigue life of a weld”, said Ford’s Senior Technical Specialist Dr. Hari Agrawal, a well-known fatigue design expert in the automotive industry.
Verity™ will be included as a module within the Safe Technology product marketed as fe-safe™. The worldwide distribution agreement between Battelle and Safe Technology marks the first widespread commercial introduction of Battelle’s patented Verity™ methodology, which predicts the fatigue life of welded structures with unprecedented accuracy.
“We are thrilled to team with Safe Technology in making Verity™ available to users around the world,” said Battelle’s Pingsha Dong who developed Verity™. Industry experts estimate that the demonstrated effectiveness of Verity™ should save hundreds of millions – if not billions – of dollars in engineering, testing, and manufacturing costs.
The fe-safe™ suite of durability analysis software has become the tool of choice selected by leading companies worldwide for the analysis of machined, forged and cast components in steel, aluminum and cast iron, and for complex assemblies, high-temperature components, welded fabrications and stamped components.
“The Verity™ method offers major advantages in terms of accuracy and ease of use” said John Draper, Safe Technology’s CEO. “Until now, Verity™ has only been available through specific arrangements between Battelle and its clients. We are delighted to be working with Battelle to make it available worldwide in a user-friendly format. The Verity™ software will be released in fe-safe™ in February”.
In the US, Verity™ was used to win a recent Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) fatigue design and evaluation committee Weld Challenge against some of the top minds in fatigue life prediction. Recently, one major automotive company began using the method for full-vehicle durability prediction and has seen considerable savings in new-vehicle development cost. Recognizing the enormous impact of Verity™ tools in the automotive industry, SAE International awarded Pingsha and his team the prestigious Henry Ford II Distinguished Award for Excellence in Automotive Engineering.
Verity™ has been featured in the US in recent months in Time Magazine, Business Week and Technical publications.
Battelle is a global leader in science and technology. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, it develops and commercializes technology and manages laboratories for customers. Battelle, with the national labs that it manages or co-manages, oversees 19,000 staff members and conducts $2.9 billion in annual research and development. Battelle innovations include the development of the office copier machine (Xerox), pioneering work on compact disc technology, medical technology advancements, and fiber optic technologies.
Safe Technology is a technical leader in the design and development of durability analysis software. Based in Sheffield,UK, the company is privately owned and is unique in its dedication to the field of fatigue and durability analysis software. Working with worldwide partners and distributors, Safe Technology develops and sells the fe-safeWorks™ suite of software which incorporates fe-safe™ as well as specialist add on modules covering thermo-mechanical fatigue, creep fatigue and the analysis of rotating components.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 22nd June 2005:
Safe Technology’s free 1 day seminars, ‘Durability by Design’, are proving to be a great success worldwide. The seminars aim to provide new audiences with a technology update on modern methods of metal fatigue analysis and an introduction fe-safe™, Safe Technology’s flagship suite of fatigue analysis software from FEA.
Last year saw the beginning of STL’s strategy to bring the seminars to a wider audience. The seminars were hosted in Kualar Lumpur, Malaysia and Singapore by Worley, the local ABAQUS service provider. In the USA, seminars were hosted by testing partner Manta Corporation, in Cincinnati, OH and fe-safe™ customers Dana Spicer in Toledo, OH and Edwards Lifesciences in Irvine, CA.
In 2005 the seminar was hosted by fe-safe™ customers Volvo Trucks NA in Greensboro, NC and in April, Safe Technology joined forces with its partner ABAQUS India to host 2 seminars in Bangalore and Pune. ‘The response in India was fantastic’ said Stephanie Wood, Marketing Director for Safe Technology. ‘India is an important growth market for fe-safe™ and with over 100 attendees at each location, there is a clear need for better access to software like fe-safe™ and modern methods of metal fatigue analysis’.
June 2005 has seen the latest Durability by Design seminars in Sheffield in the UK and in Troy, MI in the USA, hosted by Altair Engineering. Again, over 100 engineers from a wide range of industries attended the seminar. The feedback from the attendees says it all:
‘I’ve never taken in so much information in such a short space of time!’, CAE Engineer, General Motors
‘…Dr Draper is extremely knowledgeable about fatigue’, Design Engineer, Paccar
‘Very informative seminar with remarkably little hard sell!’, CAE Engineer, Lear Corporation.
Safe Technology combines the free seminar with a 3-day fatigue theory course. The next seminars and fatigue theory courses will be hosted by Belcan, local ANSYS services providers held in Chicago, IL in September and by The South West Research Institute in San Antonio, TX. For more information see our training page.
About the seminars
The ‘Durability by Design’ seminar is designed to illustrate problems that can now be solved using durability analysis software for FEA models. A technology update in key areas of fatigue analysis such as multiaxial fatigue, effects of temperature, notch sensitivity and residual stresses will be provided.
The seminars cover:
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 22nd June 2005:
Safe Technology Limited is pleased to announce LEAP Australia as a new sales partner in Australia and New Zealand. LEAP will offer local sales and support services for fe-safe™, Safe Technology’s world-class fatigue analysis software suite from FEA. LEAP will also sell and support Safe Technology’s signal processing suite, safe4fatigue™.
LEAP Australia currently distributes and supports PTC software, ANSYS (including CFX), and LS-DYNA. Jindong Yang, Technical Director at LEAP commented: ”LEAP is committed to adopting technology solutions that enable designers to achieve success in highly competitive markets. One way to achieve this is by partnering with the world's leading engineering software development organisations. With our expertise in FEA, fe-safe’s high-end fatigue analysis capability fits well with LEAP’s total engineering solution strategy”.
Safe Technology’s CEO, John Draper said: “LEAP and Safe Technology’s customers represent a diverse range of industries. Safe Technology’s success in fatigue design and life assessment in the ground-vehicle, medical, machine design, defence and academic sectors around the world complements LEAP’s FEA knowledge and expertise in these sectors in Australia and New Zealand.”
LEAP stands for Leading Engineering Application Providers. Leap’s area of expertise is the application of technology to enable efficient product development, manufacturing, and management of the whole process throughout the entire lifecycle from concept through to design, analysis, manufacture and lifecycle management.
Website www.leapaust.com.au
Safe Technology Ltd is the technical leader in the design and development of durability analysis software. Since 1987 the company has provided advanced cost-effective software systems to leading engineering companies world-wide, for fatigue design, durability analysis, prototype assessment, component testing and whole-vehicle test control to companies such as Jaguar, Siemens and Oxford Magnet Technology. The company’s flagship product, fe-safe, is used by an increasingly wide variety of leading engineering companies worldwide, including Bettis Bechtel, Edwards Lifesciences Caterpillar, Cummins, International Truck and Engine Co, Arvin Meritor, Rolls Royce, Dana Spicer, Mercury Marine, Eaton, Faurecia, Volvo Trucks and Waukesha. fe-safe allows fast, easy and accurate fatigue life predictions for FE models, includes a full signal processing suite (safe4fatigue™), advanced loading definition and analysis capabilities, full multiaxial capabilities and many advanced capabilities as standard. The intuitive user interface ensures that users do not have to be fatigue specialists to reap the full benefits of using fe-safe.
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 15th February 2005:
Safe Technology are running a series of ‘introduction to fe-safe™’ seminars and fatigue theory courses throughout the year across the USA and UK. The introduction to fe-safe™ seminars will also be run in India.
The FREE introduction to fe-safe™: ‘Durability by Design’ days are designed to give engineers a brief technology update into modern methods of metal fatigue analysis and aim to show just how advanced, reliable and accurate durability analysis software suites for FE models have become. The day includes a brief look at the fatigue analysis theories and leads onto a demonstration of fe-safe™ itself, the capabilities it has to offer and the benefits it can bring.
The fatigue theory courses are divided into a ‘fundamentals’ and an ‘advanced’ course, each lasting 2 days. Aimed at design and test engineers, attendees will learn about modern strain-life fatigue, traditional S-N curve methods, multiaxial fatigue, fatigue test methods, optimising designs to reduce fatigue, and technologies available to analyze models and predict areas of concern. There is a strong emphasis on what is possible and the pitfalls to avoid.
If you come across fatigue related issues in your industry, you should not miss these courses!!
‘Recommended for all designers and engineers’
‘Very good practical course for practising engineers’
‘Very knowledgeable instructor. Covered a wealth of material thoroughly in a relatively short time’
‘Exceptionally knowledgeable instructor, complete course notes, up to the minute technology’, Dana Corporation
For dates of upcoming courses, please see the training page of the Safe Technology website. For a more detailed course description or reservation details, please contact Wendy Vaughan
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 15th February 2005:
Safe Technology has announced the release of fe-safe™ v5.1-02. This new version of fe-safe™ provides a list of enhancements aimed at increasing the usability of fe-safe™ as well introducing new capabilities.
New Interfaces:
New features:
fe-safe™ v5.1-02 can be downloaded as an upgrade patch for existing customers from the customer area of our website. For more information about a free evaluation copy of fe-safe™ v5.1-02, please contact Stephanie Wood
Press Release, Sheffield, UK, 15th February 2005:
Safe Technology has announced a 24% growth in turnover in 2004. This growth is thanks to a steadily growing fe-safe™ user base around the world. ‘Fatigue analysis from FEA has traditionally been confined to the automotive sector and fe-safe™ has traditionally had most success within the engine manufacturing industry where it is fast becoming the default choice’, says Stephanie Wood, Sales and Marketing Manager, ‘but we are now seeing growth in other industries such as the medical, electronics and power generation industries. It’s a very exciting time for us’.
New fe-safe™ customers in 2004 include Waukesha Engines, Gunite, Dresser Rand, Delphi Packard Electronics, Edwards Lifesciences, Tecumseh Products, South West Research Institute, Eaton Automotive, Beijing North Tongda Technology, Nanjing Chenguang Applying Technology, Dongfeng Car Craftworks Institute, Central Institute of Road Transport India, Arvin Meritor and Faurecia.
The companies join the fe-safe™ user base which already includes Caterpillar, Cummins, Federal Mogul, Land Rover, MAN, B&W, Chengdu SIWI Electronics, Wuxi Diesel, SKF, Dana Corp, GKN, Luk and Mercury Marine to name but a few.
Safe Technology Ltd
Since its inception in 1997, Safe Technology had remained an independently owned company focused solely on the development of durability analysis software and services. We remain FE software neutral and have strong partnerships with ABAQUS, ANSYS, EDS, PTC and Altair to ensure that we provide the best interfaces and enable the smoothest processes for our diverse customer base.
We are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of fatigue analysis software to bring our customers unrivalled new capabilities and levels of accuracy for both routine and sophisticated applications. As a technical leader in durability software solutions, Safe Technology has provided advanced cost-effective software systems, training courses and consultancy to leading engineering companies world-wide. Safe Technology specialises in fatigue design, durability analysis, prototype assessment, component testing and whole-vehicle test control.