Resin Transfer Moulding simulation now integrated with CATIA 5

ESI Group of France has developed PAM-RTM (Resin Transfer Moulding) for CATIA V5, a software program used for the simulation of manufacturing composite components formed by injection moulding. It allows the user to perform injection analysis directly on the CAD model, which ensures a consistent geometric dataflow within an iterative continuous improvement process, resulting in significant time and cost savings. In the past, such analysis could only be done in an external simulation environment, forcing the user to export the geometric data and leave the CAD environment. Since the simulation process has now been fully integrated, using CAA V5 architecture and components, PAM-RTM for CATIA V5 presents a common user interface to the designer. Key advantages are the absence of loss of information due to geometry conversion and transfer, as well as the dynamic communication between design and simulation results.